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Tim O'Shea

Sapling Update: Reporting On The First Lending Pools

We are pleased to announce that the first three community lending pools have been live since Sept 2022, with zero default and returns of…

Mar 7, 2023

Sapling Update: Reporting On The First Lending Pools

Mar 7, 2023

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Tim O'Shea

Why We’re Building Sapling

Generating economic growth and returns through the revival of community lending for SMEs

Mar 7, 2023

Why We’re Building Sapling

Mar 7, 2023

Jack Knight

SME Borrowing Costs in Developing Nations: Struggling for Transparency

At Sapling, we’re building a mission-driven lending platform that is aiming to close the $5.2 trillion global credit gap for MSMEs (micro…

Nov 25, 2022

SME Borrowing Costs in Developing Nations: Struggling for Transparency

Nov 25, 2022

Tim O'Shea

New Beginnings: Researching The First Community Lending Pool in Uganda

In August of 2022, I returned to Kitale, Uganda: the birthplace of my first lending project, and the home of the Sapling seed. Here, I…

Oct 3, 2022

New Beginnings: Researching The First Community Lending Pool in Uganda

Oct 3, 2022

Tim O'Shea

What helps people out of poverty?

A review of interventions that reduce the global and local effects of poverty, by addressing repercussions and root causes.

Sep 12, 2022

Sep 12, 2022

Isabel Swindells

Enabling SME Borrowers: How Sapling is Building Confidence With Limited Crypto Collateral

Exploring restrictions in collateral-based lending, and how unsecured lending can open financial doorways for SMEs around the world.

Jul 7, 2022

Enabling SME Borrowers: How Sapling is Building Confidence With Limited Crypto Collateral

Jul 7, 2022

Gareth Campbell

Banking on Relationships — From the Golden Cross Inn to Pineapples in Uganda

At the confluence of roads that snake around St Chad’s Cathedral in the middle of the city of Birmingham in England, if you look carefully…

Jun 28, 2022

Banking on Relationships — From the Golden Cross Inn to Pineapples in Uganda

Jun 28, 2022

Gareth Campbell

Introducing the Sapling Protocol

Building an on-chain uncollateralized lending infrastructure that puts capital into the hands of SMEs

Jun 27, 2022

Introducing the Sapling Protocol

Jun 27, 2022

Tim O'Shea

Sapling: How The Seed Was Planted 🌱

There is a way to make a positive impact in the world by combining business, community and crypto. This is the story of Sapling’s birth

Jun 20, 2022

Sapling: How The Seed Was Planted 🌱

Jun 20, 2022

Sapling

Sapling is the next step in the evolution of uncollateralized lending on the blockchain, closing the SME financing gap by democratising the lending process and using the unique characteristics of blockchain technology to build an ecosystem founded on verifiable trust

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