Reviews: what to know before choosing a lender or broker
Roshi – Once you see what we uncovered, you wouldn’t want to use it.
30 Sept 2025 BY Daniel Tan
Introduction After we called out loan brokers like SmartLend, Smart Towkay, and Lendingpot for fake reviews and basically accidentally admitting that they had been misleading consumers and borrowers for years in one of our LinkedIn posts - industry players like investors and lenders have been asking us to evaluate if a website is “legit.”…
Read MoreSmartLend/Smart-Towkay – You wouldn't use it after reading this.
30 Sept 2025 BY Daniel Tan
Introduction Unlike our review of Lendingpot, this is a complicated one, and even we are confused about what is happening or what they really are. For ages, Smart-Towkay has claimed to be a loan platform or a loan marketplace. But recently, they managed to rope in the ex-head of CIMB to start a new “platform,” and now they are saying that…
Read MoreLendingpot – Once you see what we uncovered, you wouldn’t want to use it.
30 Sept 2025 BY Daniel Tan
Introduction Lendingpot claims to be a leading loan marketplace in Singapore. We dug deeper into their origins, ownership, and claims so you don’t have to. Ownership and Origins Lendingpot is a subsidiary of IFS Capital, a non-bank lender that specializes in secured property loans. IFS also has other subsidiaries, such as one that special…
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