In this Legal Insight, Tobias Pielsticker, specialist lawyer for banking and capital market law, elaborates on the handling of failed crowdfunding projects in the Grey Capital Market. He concludes that consumer protection is far too weak and that consumers are effectively operating in a legal vacuum. He calls on legislators and supervisory authorities to take action.
Digital Lending Association
In this insight, Tamara Kumposcht, Head of Financial Services at Taktile, explains how to improve the accuracy of risk assessments without compromising profitability and financial inclusion. This requires certain skills. Have a read!
Open Banking, AI, and real-time data access are reshaping credit assessment across Europe. In this interview, Peter Hiekmann, VP Sales at finAPI, explains how automated decision-making is becoming a strategic tool for digital lenders – enhancing speed, compliance, and customer trust
Neslihan Özbugutu, founder and CEO of Business Service Solution (bss), talks about founding her start-up in a traditionally male-dominated industry and important milestones. Her vision was to create a company where commitment, competence, and motivation matter - regardless of gender, cultural background, or age.
Our Annual Report for the year 2024 is out. Full of information on our public affairs and public relations activities, financial accounts and the outlook for the next year.
We are supportive of the EU’s efforts to modernise capital markets because modern capital markets need modern regulation - but always in line with the Treaty of Lisbon!
We are delighted to welcome a new Associate Member. DFKP is the first pure credit broker to join us. This follows our Executive Board's recent strategic decision to strengthen the DLA in this area of the digital value chain.
Due to its high strategic relevance for many of our members, the Executive Board decided to establish a Working Group on Open Lending. Andreas Knopf, co-founder of DLA and CLO at INVESDOR, was elected chairman. Till Otto, Counsel at Annerton, is his deputy.
Listen in to what Christoph Steinbrich, Managing Director at DEBTVISION and a seasoned expert has to say about the latest developments on the European market for bonded loans.
In today’s episode four Fintech lenders from the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden drop by the podcast and tell us their impact stories.

