Comparto un paper de mi autoría sobre una compañía muy interesante sobre emprendimientos financieros y tecnológicos:
*Kabbage is a
fin-tech Company that focuses on filling in the gap of small businesses whose
income is between the amounts of $25,000 to $55,000 which didn´t qualify for a
bank loan.
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Kabbage has
recognized this niche and has managed to attend their necessities. Customers
main complaints were that the process for applying for a bank loan was full of forms
and many hours of procedure. Furthermore, they have to wait for days until they
get an answer. It was a big waste of time, especially if the loan was not
approved.
This issue was solved
by Kabbage by using business intelligence with their customers, hence granting
the loan in only 7 minutes. They have created an online automated model of evaluation,
assessing three factors of the customers: repay capability, financial history
and stability of the business.
*Kabbage main
competitors are other fin tech companies and banks.
Fintech:
The sum of new fin
tech companies has been raising due to tech´s priceslump, financial necessity and
recent bank´s regulations.
These companies
use algorithms to studytheirs customers, so they approve the loans in minutes as Kabagge does. However despite the algorithms, all
the companies have different requirements, rates, fees, and repayingperiods.
The other main
difference is their business model, for example Kabbage lends money from their own capital base and takes
credit risks themselves. This model is known as balance sheet lenders. On the
other hand there exists Lending Club, who facilitates connections between
lenders and borrowers but do not take on credit risk .In the middle are hybrid
models, as OnDeck, in which the lender can lend a part or the total sum of the
loan.The main fintech players in US, which represented almost 60% of new SME
loans in 2014 are:
· OnDeck ($1.2 billion)
· CAN
Capital ($1 billion)
· Kabbage
($400 million)
· Merchant
Cash & Capital ($277 million)
· Strategic
Funding ($200 million)
Banks:
Even thought Banks
have been losing market shares against fintech, they are taking actions to
reverse this situation. Mainly they are taking 3 approaches:
First, banks invest
in fintech companies so that these can expand their number of active loans.
Second, companies
as Kabbage are looking to grow abroad the US market. As banks have wide experience
in these foreign markets, their partnership is benefitialfor both.
Third, Banks are outsourcing their loan
approval system with these fin tech companies, so banks can offer a better
service.
*According to the
report “The Future of FinTech A Paradigm Shift in Small Business Finance” published
onOctober 2015, the US had reported $5
billion in new SME lending issued on marketplace platforms in 2014, while a
volume of $12 billion was projected for 2015.
Kabbage in 2014
had $400 million in new
US SME loans, which represent the 12, 5%
of market share.
Assuming that Kabbage maintains its
share for 2015 and taking the projection
in consideration , during last year they should have lent $1.5 billion in SME.
Federico Femia