credit-analytics
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Vimal Saboo and the long life of a ten-minute decision
He joined EarlySalary to help decide who could borrow. Nine years later, Vimal Saboo took charge of its NBFC arm, carrying a career in credit analytics into the business of lending at scale.
Jeff Berkson and the bank between paydays
After nearly a decade leading risk at WebBank, Jeff Berkson joined Flex to help organize a bank around the awkward gap between payday and rent day. His proposed next job puts a career in analytics, technology and oversight in charge of a very ordinary monthly problem.
Orchard Platform built the plumbing. Who would open the taps?
Online lenders made borrowing faster. Orchard Platform tried to make their loans easier for institutions to buy, compare and trade. Its most revealing lesson arrived when the data business became a marketplace.
9fin
9fin is a London-based, AI-native intelligence platform for the global debt markets. Founded in 2016 by former banker Steven Hunter and former engineer Huss El-Sheikh, it uses machine learning to extract structured data from dense financial documents and pairs that data with news, analytics, and AI-powered workflows. Its platform covers leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, CLOs, private credit, and asset-based finance, and is used by investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, law firms, and advisors. In March 2026 the company raised a $170M Series C at a $1.3 billion valuation.
Steven Hunter
Steven Hunter is the CEO and co-founder of 9fin, an AI-native data and intelligence platform for the roughly $145 trillion global debt markets. A former leveraged finance banker at J.P. Morgan and investment executive at Babson Capital Management, he quit banking in 2016 to build the tool he wished he had, teaming with his university roommate Hussam El-Sheikh. In March 2026 the company raised $170 million in Series C funding at a $1.3 billion valuation, and now serves 300-plus of the world's leading credit institutions from offices in London, New York, Belfast, and Hong Kong.