Lending & Leasing

Underwrite more and cut risk, without the backoffice pain

From origination to collection, Leasing & Lending takes the best of Open Banking and payment tech to boost acceptance rate and cut risk, delivering faster experiences that customers love.

  • 5M+Affordability analyses processed by Powens yearly
  • 3M+ Loans disbursed by Powens every year
  • 800M€funds disbursed by Powens every year
Solution

The lending automation platform to build a safer and faster lending flow

In less than 1 min, access the borrower’s bank account and get detailed reports on current income and expenses.

Verify IDs, collect tax notices and proof of address directly from the source. Eliminate bank fraud with direct account ownership checks.

Setup repayment by Card, Pay by bank or Direct Debit. Transfer funds automatically in 10s with instant SEPA.

Benefits

Transformative results for lenders

  • Higher acceptance rate 
& reduced CPA

    Catch back creditworthy “grey area” borrowers that normal rating methods would have rejected. Customers report up to 2x increase in acceptance rate, while lowering risk.

  • Lower arrears & defaults

    With more accurate credit risk scoring based on open banking data and flexible repayment methods, customers report default rates decreasing by 20%

  • Backoffice automation

    Save hours in credit analysis and payment operations. Customers report fully automating 80% of all loans, and 6x increase in speed to match a customer with a lending solution.

How it works

Automate the lending process from user experience to backoffice

“Powens has transformed our credit decision-making process (…) and has been essential for providing customers with loan decisions in less than 24 hours”

Riad Alimi Co-founder & CEO
Use Cases

Beyond affordability checks. Far beyond

  • Elevate application UX

    By connecting to borrowers' bank account, access well-formatted revenue and spending data to pre-fill applications.
    Easy access to bank account means that all supporting documents can be requested during the application, in one go.
    Powens widgets are fully customizable to your brand and easily embedded in mobile apps. 100% white label experiences are available for regulated customers.
  • Improve decisionning

    Too many solvent applicants are excluded because models rely on outdated and partial data. Open Banking brings up-to-date, actual income and spendings data directly from the applicant's bank account.
    A good past credit rating can hide a difficult financial situation. Our risk reports highlight recent red flags that traditional scorecards miss.
    DORA and GDPR require financial data to be handled responsibly. Our data collection processes are safe, secure, and compliant with the most stringent European regulations.
  • Prevent fraud at origination

    Open banking connectivity allows to retrieve the account owner's identity. Automatically match with your user data to flag fraudsters.
    Users only give consent to access, they cannot edit the data. Powens ensures that income & spending figures retrieved directly from the bank is not altered in any way.
    Depending on your risk level, Powens can provide advanced liveness identity and document checks (from partners Dow Jones & Mitek).
  • Automate payments

    Borrowers can chose amongst a variety of repayment methods online, during the application flow. Card (via PayNoPain), Direct Debit or Pay-by-bank are available across Europe.
    With our API-based merchant wallets available 24/7, lenders can automate SEPA transfers and borrowers receive funds instantly, in less than 10 seconds.
    Powens allow lenders to continue accessing bank account data in real-time, up to 6 months after the initial check. Degrading financial situations are flagged as they appear, allowing to anticipate and prevent arrears and defaults.
Why Powens

The leader in financial automation for lenders

  • Lending & BNPL expert

    We serve more than 50 customers in lending, from global leaders to start-ups. Key Powens members have worked in (and even founded) lending companies.

  • Proven scalability

    Last year we processed 5 million affordability checks and supported the disbursement of 3 million loans, for a total amount of 800 M€.

  • Integrated solution

    Lending & leasing, our end-to-end solution dedicated to financing companies, is a turnkey package that removes the technical complexity of Open Banking and payments.

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Let’s build the future of Open Finance together

Interested in becoming a partner? Contact us and our team will get in touch with you.

Powens provides an end-to-end solution covering the full credit lifecycle: instant bank account access for affordability analysis, real-time financial indicators for credit scoring, automated identity and fraud verification, instant loan disbursement via SEPA Instant Transfers, and automated repayment collection via Card (with partner PaynoPain), Direct Debit or Pay by Bank.

One Powens lending customer performed a ROI analysis and reported a 4x increase in loan acceptance rates, 8-10% reduction in default rates, and 80% automation of loan decisioning and payment processes. Another customer recorded that loan disbursements that previously took 24-48 hours now take less than 5 minutes.

The solution combines notably Transactions /Business Transactions, Wealth & Loans /Business Wealth & Loans, Accounts & Virtual IBANs, Instant Transfers, Direct Debit, Pay by Bank, Bank ID Check, plus add-ons including Lending Categorisation, Indicators for Credit Check, Pay by Card, ID Document Validation, Sanction Screening and Transaction Reading Certificate.

Powens offers Lending Categorisation (automatic classification of income and spending across 100+ categories) and Indicators for Credit Check (instant financial situation reports with income/spending ratios, balance history and recurring transaction analysis). These can assess an individual’s or a company’s default probability within 10 seconds.

Powens provides multi-layered fraud prevention: Bank ID Check verifies account ownership directly from the bank (Valitic for the Spanish market), transaction data confirms income authenticity (tamper-proof data from source), ID Document Validation embeds liveness checks. Customers report up to 60% fraud decrease.

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