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Declutting your Closet For Cash in the new Normal

Declutting your Closet For Cash in the new Normal

Now that we are living in the “new normal”, there are traditional transactions and services that can now be safely and securely done online, one of which is pawning or “pagsasangla”.

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Southeast Asia's first digital pawnshop PawnHero - soon to be part of Lendr

Southeast Asia’s first digital pawnshop PawnHero – soon to be part of Lendr

Filipinos can look forward to more alternative secured financing via online loans marketplace and digital lending platform Lendr (www.lendr.com.ph) with the recent agreement forged between digital pawnshop startup PawnHero and FINTQ, the financial technology arm of PLDT and Smart’s Voyager Innovations. Currently, FINTQ’s Lendr (www.lendr.com.ph) already offers digital loan products from bank and…

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Pawn Shop Startup PawnHero Comes To Philippines

http://www.pymnts.com/financial-inclusion-3/2016/pawn-shop-startup-pawnhero-comes-to-philippines/

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Pawnbroking is huge in the Philippines—and it’s going online

 http://qz.com/830058/pawnbroking-is-huge-in-the-philippines-and-its-going-online/

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PawnHero's David Margendorff on ANC's Market Edge with Cathy Yang

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Pinoys start embracing online pawnshop experience

MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos can now access  the services of a pawnshop through the convenience of their own phones or desktop computers. The first online pawnshop in Southeast Asia, PawnHero.ph opened in the Philippines last year, offering an easy, fair and convenient solution to Filipinos’ short-term financial emergencies. 

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Fintech startup PawnHero bags funding from investors led by SoftBank affiliate

Manila-based fintech startup PawnHero today announced an undisclosed amount of pre-series A funding from SoftBank-affiliated Kaikaku Fund, which is focused on the Philippines, 500 Startups, and IMJ Investment Partners.

Company co-founder and chairman David Margendorff says they will use the fresh capital to hire more staff and continue “mass outreach” in the Philippines so “even more Filipinos will know that they can pawn online without leaving their homes, at half the interest of what other pawnshops charge.”

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Philippines: Pawnhero secures funding from Kaikaku, 500 Startups, IMJ Investments

Philippine fintech startup PawnHero, an online pawn shop in Southeast Asia, has secured an undisclosed funding in a pre-series A Round led by the Kaikaku Fund, a SoftBank affiliate.

Other participants in the round were global investors 500 Startups, and IMJ Investment Partners.

The Kaikaku Fund was founded in 2014 as a collaboration between strong local partners, SoftBank and affiliates. It is focused primarily on investing in leading Philippine Internet and consumer companies.

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