Jerry Wang, Founder & CEO of Haitou Global

Most U.S. debt investors pay only scant attention to emerging markets. While some are moving into Latin America most are happy to stay in the comfortable confines of the USA and Europe. But some of the best opportunities are in emerging markets today, those markets that do not yet have much of an institutional investor presence.

Jon Barlow, Co-Founder and CEO of Finitive

Raising capital for non-bank lenders is a time-intensive endeavor and the same could be said for investors deploying capital on these platforms. It would be better if there was an intermediary between these two parties that could make this whole process more efficient. Our next guest on the Lend Academy Podcast recognized this problem and did something about it.