EXALOAN Wants to Bridge the Funding GAP of SMEs Across the?Globe

Executive Summary

Exaloan started out as a rating agency for digital assets. They developed into a global platform to connect crowdlending platforms and institutional investors. Since they realized that it makes more sense for them to help investors with the access to lending platforms and building of their portfolio in crowdlending assets.

Our mission is to close the global financing gap, which is a staggering 5.2 trillion US$, which means there are more than 100 m SMEs that are lacking financing.?

?Luca Fignani, co-founder and CEO of Exaloan

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With our partners we have created a tokenization engine, a digital asset platform, on which we can create a digital token for the loans, we have sourced from crowdlending. This is really a step to the next level. We are joining digital assets with digital lending.?

?Luca Fignani, co-founder and CEO of Exaloan

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Crowdlending platforms from across the world are looking where they can refinance their loans. This is where our platform comes in.?

?Luca Fignani, co-founder and CEO of Exaloan

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We are a B2B marketplace between institutional investors and peer-to-peer lending platforms globally.

?Luca Fignani, co-founder and CEO of Exaloan

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The new digital lending platforms, they are opening a new asset class.?… their clients are not well served by their banks.

?Luca Fignani, co-founder and CEO of Exaloan

The Video Interview

2/3rds of the clients of our crowdlending platforms don’t have access to traditional bank financing. It is really about bringing credit to small shops and helping them grow organically.

?Luca Fignani, co-founder and CEO of Exaloan

The Audio Interview

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I am passionate about two things: Capital markets and data analytics.

?Luca Fignani, co-founder and CEO of Exaloan

The Founder

Our guest today is Luca Frignani (https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/luca-andre-frignani/), the CEO and co-founder of Frankfurt based fintech Exaloan (https://www.exaloan.com/). He is an original Frankfurt boy, with roots in Italy and Czech Republic. Since he is already very international, he spent quite a bit of time studying in France Lille and Nizza. He also spent time in London and Zürich. At one time he also worked as a quant analyst, developing investment strategies.

Development banks are seeing crowdlending platforms are a very important tool.

Luca Fignani, co-founder and CEO of Exaloan

The Startup

Exaloan (https://www.exaloan.com/) is a Frankfurt-based fintech company. They are a rating agency for digital assets. It is also working with its clients to give them access to international crowdlending platforms and help them to build a portfolio. They are cooperating with platforms in Germany, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines, just to name a few.

Venture Capital?Funding

There is no information available on Crunchbase about the funding of Exaloan, which they do on purpose. With us, you are again ahead of the curve with this interview.

They hint that they just closed a funding round and looking for additional funding in 12–15 months.

Exaloan is?Hiring

They offer flexibility to also work from home. You can learn more here:

Interview with their partner Creditshelf

Here is the interview with Frankfurt-listed fintech Creditshelf. Despite what Spotify says, the original interview was published in October 2018:

Further Readings / Additional Resources

· Trivia: Joe welcomes in a traditional Frankfurt way “Ei, gude wie?” https://www.dict.cc/german-english/Ei+gude+wie.html

Articles on the stuff Luca did before he started Exaloan:

· FX Overlays https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/finance/currency-overlay/#:~:text=Currency%20overlay%20is%20an%20investment,investors%20and%20managed%20by%20professionals.

· Quant Analyst: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financialcareers/08/quants-quantitative-analyst.asp

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