{"id":939418,"date":"2025-06-19T06:19:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=939418"},"modified":"2025-06-19T06:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:05:09","slug":"as-fintech-lenders-chase-secured-credit-options-vcs-up-their-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/19\/as-fintech-lenders-chase-secured-credit-options-vcs-up-their-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"As fintech lenders chase secured credit options, VCs up their bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The slowdown in the unsecured consumer credit market is resulting in an increase in investor interest in secured lending platforms, a sector dominated by traditional financiers till recently. <\/p>\n<p>Over the past one year, venture funds which typically fund tech-first companies have been betting on home financing startups, branch-led secured lenders offering products such as loans against property (LAP), loans against securities like mutual funds, vehicle lending companies and asset-based lenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slowdown in the unsecured consumer credit market is resulting in an increase in investor interest in secured lending platforms, a sector dominated by traditional financiers till recently. Over the past one year, venture funds which typically fund tech-first companies have been betting on home financing startups, branch-led secured lenders offering products such as loans against property (LAP), loans against securities like mutual funds, vehicle lending companies and asset-based lenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}