Samir Desai

This morning, the Government and the Bank of England facilitated a private sale of Silicon Valley Bank UK to HSBC Deposits will be protected, with no taxpayer support I said yesterday that we would look after our tech sector, and we have worked urgently to deliver that promise

Thanks so much to all in HM Treasury and Government - I am so impressed with how quickly you got up to speed, and worked so hard over the weekend day and night constructively to find a solution. Thank you HSBC for your investment in UK science and innovation by buying SVBUK

Not sure what Super is all about? Listen to our founder @samirdesai01 talking about the Super vision vimeo.com/user187017626/…

3/3 It is effectively a tax on the internet, we don’t like it and so we can change it together. We provide free online payments to businesses and instant cashback for shoppers. By moving the profits of payments and advertising companies back to users everyone wins. Join us.

2/3 We have raised £22.5 million from Accel, USV, Localglobe and angels to launch Super (thanks for believing in us!). We think that shoppers and businesses have been stung by huge fees on the internet for too long from payments and digital advertising companies.

1/3 I and a group of tech pros have started a new business called Super superpayments.com. I spoke to the Times about this today: Samir Desai works on free online payments thetimes.co.uk/article/8173fd…

We're very proud to be 16th in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For 2018! @bestcompanies #BestCompanies2018. Full list here: bit.ly/2EMZvGG

Excited to announce our partnership with @INTRUSTBank @FundingCircleUS! banklesstimes.com/2018/01/04/int…!

How a simple tech upgrade at the IRS could help credit formation and transform the economy. @FundingCircleUS techcrunch.com/2017/12/30/how…

Watching Index’s @arihelgason nail his interview of @samirdesai01 from @FundingCircleUK. Was supposed to be me but I lost my voice! Thanks Ari!

Great visit to amazing @arapina_bakery always inspired to meet passionate entrepreneurs like Michaela. @FundingCircleUK we are helping those made to do more succeed

Funding Circle did more net new lending than top 20 U.K. banks in Q3 & record $230m global lending in October ft.com/content/ae1f78…

We're proud to be recognised in the #LinkedInTopCompanies list this year! bit.ly/2zaWcFd

Funding Circle really starting to take off in Germany - now €7.5m a month of origination app.handelsblatt.com/20384422.html?…

@jameshurley But direct lending transparency is important, and I hope disclosure standards are adopted by banks & funds as system will be safer

@jameshurley The shame is newer platforms will read these and think what's the point in disclosing information when journalists will hammer us for it?

@jameshurley You wouldn't think it from reading your article 'in dark over transparency'

@jameshurley 95% of forum posts from c. 20 users out of 70,000 actively lending. Quoting a vocal minority but not stats is misleading & unbalanced

Past few weeks lots more journalist interest, many admitting more bank lobbying - maybe direct lending finally a threat 2 banks? ;)

@jameshurley I also don't understand how you can write about transparency and then not compare platforms to banks or fund managers? Misleading