Tim Thabe

Co- Founder and Managing Director

Tim has 15 years of experience in the banking industry on an international level. Before joining creditshelf he was COO of the international corporate and institutional clients business of UBS based in Zurich. Previously he worked as Credit Officer and Rating Advisor for Goldman Sachs based in London. Tim holds a Ph.D. in finance (University of Mannheim) as well as degrees as Diplom-Kaufmann from University of Mannheim, and EMBA from Kellogg-WHU, and he is a CFA Charterholder.

Event Sessions Featuring Tim Thabe

Panel

The next phase for the SME funding revolution: Taking on mid‐market lending

London Summit 2018 - Monday 26 March 2018

Will technology-enabled platform lending move into the mid market space? Thabe said to lend to the mid-market he believes every loan needs “a pair of real eyes” along side automation of certain aspects of underwriting.
Law adds that “it is hard work in the middle”. He said online lenders will do well in the sub-200k level where as banks will dominate £10m plus.
Kindert, head of alternative credit at NNIP, said there is some oversupply in some areas of the non-bank lending space but that in others “there are still opportunities.”
Spotcap’s Turfboer meanwhile said that going into multiple jurisdictions is not easy for mid market lending and added that banks and fintechs may both find it difficult to make this space profitable.