Faes & Co founder, Christian Faes, talks with Will Beeson on the Rebank Podcast about our firm and F2 Finance in ‘‘Building the Optimal US Fintech Lender’.

The Faes & Co Income Fund will invest in loans originated by Faes & Co’s own group company, F2 Finance, which was launched earlier this year.

It will focus on funding a diversified portfolio of short-term mortgages, secured by first mortgage against residential property in the US…

Faes & Co, a Los Angeles-based investment firm, has launched its first private credit fund, focusing on short-term residential mortgages tied to the house-flipping market…

Faes & Co, an investment company led by Christian Faes, has launched the Income Fund, a private credit fund focused on the US real estate bridging finance market, with a target raise of $100 million.

‘F2 Finance set to take a bite out of the lucrative American ‘fix & flip’ short-term finance market, estimated to be worth $68 billion a year…’

“The founder of one of London’s few listed fintech firms, LendInvest, has done some thinking...”

“The new LA-based firm, Faes & Co, will invest in “technology-enabled direct lending businesses”, as well as managing a private credit fund.”

“Faes moved to London from his native Australia shortly before he set up LendInvest in 2008. He became non-executive chairman in 2023. The London-listed fintech firm has about £3.7 billion ($4.6 billion) in funds under management.”

“Faes, who co-founded LendInvest in 2008, recently moved to Los Angeles where he has set up Faes & Co, which will focus on building and investing in technology-enabled direct lending businesses, alongside its own private credit fund.

The Faes & Co Income Fund will invest in asset backed loans originated through the deal flow of the businesses that the wider group will incubate and help scale.”