{"id":29410,"date":"2017-08-18T18:59:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T10:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=29410"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:59:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T10:59:31","slug":"seasias-first-digital-pawnshop-soon-to-be-part-of-lendr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2017\/08\/18\/seasias-first-digital-pawnshop-soon-to-be-part-of-lendr\/","title":{"rendered":"SEAsia&#8217;s first digital pawnshop soon to be part of Lendr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Online loans marketplace and digital lending platform Lendr signed an\u00a0agreement with digital pawnshop\u00a0startup PawnHero and FINTQ, the financial technology arm of\u00a0PLDT and Smart&#8217;s Voyager Innovations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29411\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PawnHero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29411\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PawnHero.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PawnHero.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PawnHero-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Syam Devineni PawnHero CFO; David Margendorff, PawnHero Chairman and Founder; Manuel V. Pangilinan, PLDT, Smart, Voyager, and FINTQ Chairman; Orlando B. Vea, Voyager President and CEO; and Lito Villanueva, FINTQ Managing Director<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Currently, FINTQ&#8217;s Lendr\u00a0already offers digital loan products from bank and financial\u00a0institution partners. Upon integration, PawnHero will be the\u00a0first digital pawnshop service to be available in the Lendr\u00a0marketplace. Through\u00a0PawnHero, customers no longer need to go to a\u00a0brick-and-mortar pawnshop to avail of alternative\u00a0financing as all they have to do is accomplish the forms and\u00a0instructions online via their mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>Pawnhero is Southeast Asia&#8217;s first online pawnshop startup and it is\u00a0registered with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re committed to provide our customers with help for those who\u00a0need it most, at the most convenient financing means\u00a0possible. With this partnership with Lendr, more Filipinos\u00a0can discover that they can choose to avail of our digital\u00a0pawnshop service for their quick cash needs and at the same\u00a0time, enjoy the more affordable interest rates that we\u00a0offer,&#8221; said David\u00a0Margendorff, PawnHero chairman and founder.<\/p>\n<p>PawnHero is the most recent partner to get on board Lendr. To date,\u00a0Lendr\u00a0covers 100% of 81 provinces, 90% of 145 cities and 15% of\u00a01,490 municipalities. Approximately 23% of borrowers in\u00a0Lendr are from low-income areas. So far, Lendr has disbursed\u00a0more than P23 billion in loans to more than 200,000 clients\u00a0since its launch in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online loans marketplace and digital lending platform Lendr signed an\u00a0agreement with digital pawnshop\u00a0startup PawnHero and FINTQ, the financial technology arm of\u00a0PLDT and Smart&#8217;s Voyager Innovations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5178,548,5446,96],"class_list":["post-29410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-lendr","tag-online-banking","tag-pawnhero","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}