See the real trading record behind every business borrower.

Thin files and missing cash flow keep good businesses out of your book. We bring you businesses with verified trading and repayment history, checked against your own policy before they reach your credit desk.

  • A pre-checked pipeline: customers who meet your minimum grade, ticket size and tenure
  • Purpose control: funds can be paid straight to the supplier against an invoice
  • Early warning on your existing book: we read your loan ledger and flag accounts sliding into arrears before they become non-performing
  • Portfolio reporting for your credit committee and board

For SACCOs: send us your loan ledger and we will show you, free, where arrears are building.

Records analysed
101,000
Distinct borrowers after duplicates were removed
83,631
Loans under monitoring
KES 1.4 billion
Application to disbursement, on secured SME files
21 days to 48 hours
Of one live pipeline declined before disbursement
27 per cent

Observed across deployments and pilots. Direction, not guarantees.

What UNBRDN does

Recovery and rehabilitation first. Screening supports them.

UNBRDN is read-only by default: it reads the lender's data and changes nothing in their systems. Collections and origination modules are available when a client chooses to switch them on. All credit approvals remain with your own committee.

We do not collect debt. Recovery is carried out by the lender's own team or by recovery agencies it appoints. Our collections module organises and tracks that work.

01

Post-lending

Recover more of what you have already lent.

Continuous monitoring of every account against your own policy thresholds, a structured turnaround path instead of a write-off, and a collections command centre for the accounts that do go bad. Promises kept, right-party contact and unworked case queues, tracked per collector.

02

Pre-lending

Price the borrower on real cash flow, not a snapshot.

Upload an applicant book and every borrower is scored against your own debt service ratio threshold, your mandate and your risk limits. Bank and mobile-money statements read, normalised and turned into a decision-grade view.

03

Analyse

Turn documents into a defensible credit view.

Borrower-level analysis producing a complete financial profile, and standalone statement analysis focused on inflows, outflows and cash-flow signal. A first report takes five working days.

Behind these three sit origination, mandates, market discovery, sustainable finance, transfer pricing and a debt marketplace. Ask and we will show you.

That third step is the point. A borrower you restructured who then repaid is someone you have seen under pressure. On any sensible measure, they are a better risk than a stranger with a clean application.

A marketplace for portfolios that need to change hands is built and can be demonstrated on invented data. It does not yet have clients.

Data and models

Your data stays yours. The decision stays with you.

The lender remains the data controller. VALR Capital acts as its data processor under a written data processing agreement, and is registered with Kenya's Office of the Data Protection Commissioner. Clients choose whether UNBRDN runs in our cloud or on their own servers. Each client's data is held in its own separate workspace.

VALR Extract

Reads bank and mobile-money statements. Resolves transaction direction against the running balance rather than inferring it from the description, because on a mobile-money statement the same paybill can be income for one borrower and an expense for another.

VALR Analyst

Reasons through the credit decision and produces a defensible, reviewable output.

We built two proprietary models: one that reads bank and mobile-money statements, one that reasons through the credit decision. In our own benchmarking they approach the quality of leading frontier models at a materially lower cost per decision.

  • UNBRDN is read-only by default: it reads the lender's data and changes nothing in their systems. Collections and origination modules are available when a client chooses to switch them on.
  • Every recommendation traces back to the signals behind it. There is no black-box score.
  • Credit bureau data is part of the picture, access being reactivated.
  • Cost per decision falls as your loan portfolio grows.

Benchmark figures are from internal testing and describe direction, not a guaranteed result in any given deployment.

How an engagement works

  1. A free back-test. Every client starts with a free back-test on its own book. You send a ledger export under a signed agreement and we score it against your policy.

  2. A first report in five working days. You see where arrears are building, which accounts you would have declined, and where the data does not support the limit.

  3. Pricing in four parts. A setup fee, waived on a twelve-month commitment; a monthly platform fee set by the size of the book we monitor; a usage charge per analysis run; and the modules a client chooses.

Case study

A development fund's lending programme

  • 101,000 records reconciled to 83,631 distinct borrowers
  • Every account graded with reasons
  • KES 1.4 billion portfolio monitored

Anonymised at the client's request. Observed across deployments and pilots. Direction, not guarantees.

Questions

How is early warning different from PAR30?
PAR30 tells you a loan is already 30 days late. Early warning reads repayment patterns, deposits and trading signals to flag accounts that are sliding before they reach PAR30, while there is still time to restructure.
How do you get our data?
You share loan ledger exports in Excel, by SFTP or through an API. No change to your core system is needed, and UNBRDN changes nothing in your systems.
How is provisioning calculated?
Provisioning uses configurable days-past-due bands and percentages set from your credit manual. We confirm your accounting standard with you before relying on it for reporting.
How are collections handled?
We restructure before recovery. Where recovery is needed, it is carried out by licensed recovery agencies under your instructions and your conduct rules.