Shivani Siroya’s idea for a digital lending app serving “underbanked” people in emerging markets came to her while she was working in Sub-Saharan and West Africa. “I interviewed over 3,500 individual ...

Tala, a U.S.-based consumer lending app in emerging markets, announced this week it secured $110 million through its Series D funding round, which was led by RPS Ventures, with participation from GGV ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. The expansion was announced along with a new $50 million Series C ...

Digital financial startup Tala is relocating within Santa Monica. “Our challenge was to create an opportunity to house the company’s expanding workforce and dispose of Tala’s current Santa Monica ...

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Jeff Kauflin is a New Jersey-based senior editor and covers fintech. This article is more than 6 years old. Tala CEO Shivani Siroya has grown the startup into a 600-person company that has delivered ...

About 2.5 billion people around the world are underserved by traditional financial institutions. For traditional banks and loan companies, these individuals technically don’t even exist: According to ...

A senior manager of money lending firm, Tala, is ruing the day she fell in love with a foreign national, who has allegedly conned her out of her Sh9 million.

A senior manager of money lending firm, Tala, is ruing the day she fell in love with a foreign national, who has allegedly conned her out of her Sh9 million. Police have since arrested the suspect, a ...