Lenddo can also help a bank improve workflow by handling applications over a mobile phone instead of sending a bank rep out on a moped with paper forms for applicants to fill out.
“Now for most borrowers they can do it through software.”
And Lenddo can help lenders avoid bad customers. Some people who look great on a local credit score fail the Lenddo evaluation.
“If you reduce your default by a small number it has a profound on your portfolio because your worst borrowers make no payments at all. We authenticate that the person who controls the phone or social media account is who they say they are. A traditional authentication may look up in a database for a drivers license, but that doesn’t tell you whether that is really the person you think it is. We look at their social media footprint which shows that all their friends are calling them by this name, they are known in the community, so the person who controls this social media account really is Tom.”
Lenddo provides a piece of code to a lender who uses it to allow a potential borrower to opt in to share his or her social media activity. Like FICO, Lenddo rates applicants on a score of 1 to 1,000 and predicts the likelihood of repayment.
“Banks dial up and change their approval rate based on what they are trying to accomplish. One bank wants to be very strict while another wants to grab market share and will accept higher levels of first payer default because over time they will create a good portfolio.”
Market regulators and government agencies have been very supportive because they understand the value of credit to people who haven’t been able to get any.
“In many cases the regulators want us to go faster. In Colombia we won a top innovator from the government. We have been honored at the World Economic Forum and and at the Financial Inclusion Summit in London as a top innovator.”
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