Alot of money is pouring into the BNPL industry. A big shake-up...

Alot of money is pouring into the BNPL industry.
A big shake-up of the credit card industry is on the cards pardon the pun.

SINGAPORE, JAKARTA, Indonesia & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FinAccel, the parent of Kredivo, the leading AI-enabled digital consumer credit platform in Southeast Asia, and VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings II (NASDAQ: VPCB) (“VPCB”), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Victory Park Capital (“VPC”), today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for a business combination that will result in FinAccel becoming a publicly traded company with an expected pro forma equity value of approximately $2.5 billion, assuming no redemptions.

Kredivo provides customers instant credit financing for e-commerce and offline purchases, as well as personal loans, based on proprietary, AI-enabled real-time decisioning. With nearly 4 million approved customers today and a presence across eight of the top 10 e-commerce merchants in Indonesia, it is the largest and fastest growing buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform in Indonesia today, with plans to expand into regional markets such as Vietnam and Thailand in the near future. Kredivo serves a target segment that comprises the rapidly growing middle class of Indonesia, with interest rates that are amongst the lowest in the country, and an application and approval process that takes as little as two minutes.

Kredivo has a track record of being a superior solution for online and offline merchants. With less than 10% of the middle class in Indonesia in possession of a credit card, merchants partner with Kredivo to help increase customer spend. Surveyed merchants that partner with Kredivo experience more than double the average basket size, up to three times more frequent transactions, and over 50% of these merchants say Kredivo helps increase cart conversion rate during checkout.

“As the topbuy now, pay laterplatform in Indonesia, Kredivo is an established force in the large and rapidly growing point of sale financing market,” said Akshay Garg, Co-Founder and CEO of FinAccel. “Unlike Western markets where credit is readily accessible, traditional banks in Southeast Asia have historically provided little consumer credit in our markets, which creates a large opportunity for Kredivo to tap into other credit needs, such as personal loans, and fulfill our vision of providing fast, affordable, and easily accessible credit to tens of millions of customers in the region. Considering that 66% of Southeast Asia’s population is unbanked or under-banked, we also see a very attractive opportunity to serve these customers with other financial services, outside of credit. We are proud to have the continued support of our longstanding investors in our pursuit to realize our long-term vision and growth strategy.”

Victory Park Capital, a global investment firm headquartered in Chicago, has a long track record of executing debt and equity financing transactions with some of the largest, most innovative global fintech companies. VPC and Kredivo have a long-standing relationship, with VPC providing an initial $100 million credit facility to the company in July 2020 and upsizing it to $200 million in June 2021. In addition, VPC and its limited partners have invested approximately $30 million into the PIPE and are committed to a two-year lockup on their sponsor shares, unless otherwise accelerated based on average trading performance measures beginning one-year following the closing. VPCB completed its initial public offering in March 2021.

“Since our initial investment in 2020, we continue to be impressed by Kredivo’s rapid growth and strong credit metrics and unit economics,” said Gordon Watson, Co-CEO of VPCB and Partner at VPC. “The company has created an impressive platform that enables it to expand into new markets. Its world-class management team has a proven ability to not only execute on its strategy, but also revolutionize fintech across Southeast Asia.”

FinAccel has been backed by high-quality investors including Square Peg, Mirae Asset, NAVER, Jungle Ventures, GMO Internet, and Telkom Indonesia.

Kredivo Highlights

• Operates within a fast-growing e-commerce market (over 20% per annum) with the potential for $145B NMV by 2025
• Accelerating growth momentum with total user base doubling in the last 10 months and annualized revenue doubling in the last seven months
• Market leader with at least 50% BNPL wallet share across most of the major Indonesian e-commerce merchants
• Average customer transacts 25x per year on the platform, a far higher engagement rate than global peers
• Globally proven open-loop payments model with attractive unit economics
• Deep regulatory moat with licenses in core and expansion markets
• Proprietary AI-enabled risk models and collections processes delivering risk metrics in line with banks’, and the ability to scale risk models in other similarly credit deficient regional markets
• Brings demonstrable value and has a track record of being a superior solution for online merchants with 100% digital UX and automation
• Durable growth vectors with a clear pathway to synergistic expansion opportunities