Egyptian Fintech Blnk Raises $37 Million to Bring Credit to the Unbanked
Egyptian fintech startup Blnk has secured $37 million in equity and debt funding to expand its point-of-sale credit services. The company uses proprietary machine learning to provide financing to unbanked individuals, focusing on those previously ignored by traditional lenders.
Why it matters
This funding highlights the growing importance of fintech in bridging the financial inclusion gap in emerging markets like Egypt.
Egypt has one of the fastest-growing consumer finance markets in the Middle East, but fewer than 5 percent of Egyptian adults have access to formal credit. A Cairo-based fintech called Blnk is betting it can close that gap — one checkout counter at a time.
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