Christian Faes
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Christian Faes is a financial technology entrepreneur and financier.[1] Faes is co-founder and CEO of LendInvest, which is a real estate lending and investing platform, that has raised over £1 billion in the United Kingdom.[2] Faes has been referred to as a 'pioneer' by the Financial Times,[3] and regularly listed as one of the most influential people in FinTech.[4][5][6][7] Faes has been won numerous awards including the European Allstar Investor Award in 2017, often referred to at the 'Oscars of the start-up world'.[8]
Career
Faes was born in Australia[9] and studied and graduated with honours in law from Bond University,[10] and then qualified as a solicitor working as a property lawyer with Allens Arthur Robinson.[11] He first moved to London in 2000[12] where he was a securitization lawyer[13] with Clifford Chance, and then in-house legal counsel with Deutsche Bank.[14]
In 2008 Faes set up a property bridging finance business called Montello in London.[15][16] LendInvest was spun out and launched in 2013 by Faes and his co-founder, Ian Thomas.[17][18]
LendInvest
Faes and his co-founder Ian Thomas still own the majority of LendInvest, which is a privately held company.[19]
LendInvest’s investors include Atomico, the European venture capital investment fund co-founded by Niklas Zennström (one of the founders of Skype), which invested £17 million in March 2016.[20] The investment followed a £22m Series A investment from a Chinese investor, which at the time was the largest Series A investment in a UK FinTech company ever.[21] The Chinese investor has since exited the investment and is no longer a shareholder in the company.[22] LendInvest also has investment bank GP Bullhound and US hedge fund investor Tiger Management as equity investors in the business, investing in a $39.5m Series C fundraising round in 2018.[23] [24]
LendInvest has also had backing from financial institutions such as Macquarie Bank,[25][26] Citibank,[27] and Nomura[28][29] and has listed a retail bond on the London Stock Exchange.[30][31]
References
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- ↑ "The 40 Coolest People in UK FinTech". Business Insider.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Lunden, Ingrid. "LendInvest Raises $39.5m to Grow its Property Finance Platform". TechCrunch.
- ↑ Greenhalgh, Hugh. "Christian Faes, peer-to-peer lending pioneer, targets mortgages". Financial Times.
- ↑ "These are 2016's top 100 influential leaders in FinTech". City AM. 2016-12-07.
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- ↑ "The 40 Coolest People in UK FinTech". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 2016-05-02. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
- ↑ Bercetche, Joumanna (2017-09-28). "'Oscars of the start-up world' has an exciting new winner looking to disrupt property finance". CNBC.
- ↑ Evans, Peter (2018-07-22). "Home loans turned us into hot property, says Christian Faes, founder of LendInvest". The Sunday Times. The Times.
- ↑ "Twice as Smart". The FinTech Times. April 2016.
- ↑ Chessell, James (2015-01-23). "Peer-to-peer lending takes on the big banks". Australian Financial Review.
- ↑ "FinTech Profile, Christian Faes of LendInvest". FinTech Profiles. 2015-10-28.
- ↑ Lee, Peter. "Fintech 2016 LendInvest has big ambitions". Euromoney.
- ↑ "These are 2016's top 100 influential leaders in fintech". City AM. 2016-12-07.
- ↑ Chessell, James (2015-01-23). "Peer-to-peer lending takes on the big banks". Australia Financial Review.
- ↑ "Shaper Christian Faes". Business Shapers. 2017-01-06.
- ↑ Evans, Judith. "Property loan fund to launch in p2p boom". Financial Times.
- ↑ Moore, Elaine. "London developer takes on largest P2P loan". Financial Times.
- ↑ Evans, Peter (2018-07-22). "Home loans turned us into hot property, says Christian Faes, founder of LendInvest". The Sunday Times. The Times.
- ↑ Palmer, Kate (2016-03-14). "Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom buys £17m stake in peer-to-peer lender". The Telegraph.
- ↑ England, Lucy. "The startup just raised the biggest Series A round in UK FinTech so far". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 2018-10-02. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
- ↑ Shubber, Kadhim. "China's Beijing Kunlun sells back investment in UK lender LendInvest". Financial Times.
- ↑ Smith, Oliver. "LendInvest is gearing up to be London's second peer-to-peer IPO". Forbes.
- ↑ Lunden, Ingrid. "LendInvest Raises $39.5m to Grow its Property Finance Platform". TechCrunch.
- ↑ Williams-Grut, Oliver. "A big investment bank just signed up to lend over £40 million on mortgage funding platform LendInvest". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
- ↑ Weeks, Ryan. "LendInvest Clinches Warehouse Funding Line from Macquarie – Securitisation Inbound?". AltFi.
- ↑ Robinson, Edward. "Citigroup Bets Millions on U.K. Mortgage Lender". Bloomberg.
- ↑ Montague-Jones, Guy. "Nomura and Magnetar back LendInvest". Property Week.
- ↑ Alois, JD (2018-09-04). "LendInvest's Total Lending Capital Hits £1 Billion as Fintech Raises £150 Million in Residential Development Funding in New JV". CrowdfundInsider.
- ↑ "London Stock Exchange welcomes LendInvest Secured Income plc". London Stock Exchange.
- ↑ Connington, James (2018-03-16). "Peer-to-peer lender offers rare secured retail bond paying 5.4pc". The Telegraph.
