Pepper Advantage teamed with Metro Bank to manage its rapidly expanding mortgage initiative. Pepper Advantage’s ringfenced white-label teams looked after the brand and migrated Metro Bank’s large, complex portfolio, driving business growth.

Mumbai - Mukund Kulkarni will replace Asokan Arumugam as CEO of Pepper India Resolution Private Limited, part of Pepper Advantage India, effective 1 July 2022. Kulkarni was previously head of SME and retail loans at Arcil; previous experience includes Barclays and ICICI.

London - Pepper Advantage moves into fast-growing point of sale consumer credit market; provides full credit and loan portfolio services to retailers and health care companies looking to drive growth by offering direct point of sale and Buy Now Pay Later payment options.

London - Anna Agafonova joins Pepper Advantage as its first Group CFO following major business integration. Previously Group CFO at SWIFT, Agafonova has a strong record of profitability improvement and building financial teams in multinational companies.

Pepper Advantage is certainly generating interest. When we announced our major transformation in late March, the market response was clear – we’d tapped into a genuine need and a hunger for change.

London - Integration of Asian and European businesses to create a global credit intelligence provider. Technology investment will develop new cloud-based data and analytics platform and expand offering across more geographies, asset classes, and product lines.

Pepper Advantage partnered with LendInvest, taking control of servicing for all new and existing loans, as part of a move to free up the fintech lender’s time to focus on its long-term strategy.