Each month dozen of new lending start-ups emerge and looking at the amount of debt and equity funding they get looks like the market remains hot!
A crowdfunding platform helping MBA students from Africa and Asia to attend top US and European business schools has raised £100m from a group of institutions and entrepreneurs, including Betfair co-founder Ed Wray. Prodigy Finance was co-founded by three Insead business school graduates, led by South African-born chief executive Cameron Stevens, after discovering that many classmates had been refused bank finance despite their higher than average future earnings potential.
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