About us

Brismo brings efficiency to the market in loans, enabling loan originators to create credible performance metrics, and investors to deploy capital more productively and cost effectively.


We have the broadest market coverage, working with originators of loans - from SME and consumer, to real estate and receivables - and providing market leading performance metrics to a range of investor clients.

More...

Since launching in the UK in 2014 our methodology has gained traction globally. We now cover over 65% of UK and European marketplace lending, over 50% of US marketplace lending, and are extending coverage to additional geographies, origination models, and loan types. We recently expanded into ‘direct lending’ and have also created metrics dedicated to reviewing the performance of real estate lenders.


We are the sole providers of a standardised, like for like comparable, loan performance track record enabling for standardised measurement of both return and risk. Our geographic performance indices have gained traction amongst investors seeking to benchmark loan investment performance and represent the only way to measure the performance of the asset class.


We support our clients in meeting their business goals. Loan originators can create meaningful, verified performance metrics, giving them wider access to capital, reducing their cost of funding, and fulfilling regulatory obligations. Meanwhile Investors can deploy capital more productively with enhanced returns, lower costs, and mitigation of risks.

Our Team

Our staff have experience across mainstream capital markets, private equity, rating agencies, and data vendors. We understand the importance of like for like comparable analysis, and have the expertise required to create it by accurately mapping and cleansing diverse sets of loan data.

Rupert Taylor

Founder & CEO

Rupert spent 13 years working in investment banking gaining broad experience of financial markets. From a start in equity sales at Cazenove he moved via cross-asset sales at Lehman into principal trading at Nomura. This career path gives Rupert a perspective from both buy and sell-side and an understanding of a range of asset classes. Having spent much of his career consuming financial data Rupert is determined to transform alternative finance disclosure into tools that facilitate like for like analysis and drive investor adoption. Rupert holds a BSc from the University of Durham.

Neha Manaktala

Chief Operations Officer

Neha has 14 years experience in investment banking, private equity and fintech. Originally a TMT investment banker from Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers, Neha advised global technology, media and telecom companies on M&A, and equity / debt fund raising. Neha then moved to Actis Private Equity working on the $3Bn global fundraiser. Prior to joining Brismo, Neha co-founded DealIndex an equity crowdfunding data analytics company. Neha brings diverse experience having worked with clients and investors across the globe. Neha has a Masters in Economics from St. Xaviers College in Mumbai.

Aloysius Fekete

Chief Analytics Officer

Aloysius marries tech expertise with financial insight. His experience gained working for a rating agency, an investment bank and a data vendor, aswell as a period setting up another fin tech startup, provide an outstanding profile to ensure that our product fulfils the needs of both originators and investors. Before spending 12 years working in finance Aloysius gained experience as both a civil engineer and a software engineer. Aloysius holds an MBA from the Schulich school of business, a BASc in Civil Engineering and a BMus in Musical performance.

Louisa Pires

Head of Sales

Louisa has more than 33 years working in the top tier of global finance. She has Managing Director level experience at Merrill Lynch, Dresdner Bank, and UniCredit where she managed teams distributing structured credit, and other fixed income products, to institutional, banking and corporate investors. Louisa also has first hand buy side experience as a founding partner at Newsmith Asset Management where she took specific responsibility for the development of the credit business.

Laura Diab

Business Development Analyst

Laura gained two years of experience in asset management at Oxford Capital Partners and Aviva Investors. More recently she has been improving the sales of a leading board and paper company in Beirut. She holds a Masters in Finance from the London School of Economics and the CFA level 3.

Senthil Kumarathevan

Head of Data Engineering

Senthil has been working in data and systems engineering for over 15 years providing him with expertise in a broad range of systems, languages and applications. Senthil holds a BSc in Computer Science.

Chris Welch

Head of Product

Chris Welch spent nine years in the natural resources space initially as a minerals economist and then as a metals and mining analyst at both global and boutique investment banks. Chris gained a BSc (Hons) in geology from University College London and also holds an advanced certificate in Economics and an MSc in International Business Management.

Cyprian Brytan

Product Analyst

Cyprian worked at KPMG UK where he gained an introduction to consulting with an emphasis on data analysis, working with clients from various industries including banking, insurance and retail. Cyprian graduated with BBA in Management from Lancaster University.

David Julião

Developer

David worked in software development for MediaPrimer in Portugal where he help to build apps and front end solutions for clients in the utility sector. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the Coimbra Institute of Engineering.

Rishabh Iyer

Head of Technology

Rishabh has over 5 years of technology experience. In the past, he has worked for JP Morgan and a data analytics start-up. Rishabh holds a BE in Information Technology from University of Mumbai.

Advisory Board

Roger Spooner

Roger Spooner is a financial sales consultant working in the capital markets fin tech sector. Prior to this Roger worked for a number of investment banks in London and New York including CIBC, UBS, Daiwa, and West LB. Most recently he was a member of the management committee at Markit where he was head of global client management.

Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson has over 20 years’ experience as a private equity investor having been a founder director of Electra Partners Europe and a Partner at Warburg Pincus. Until stepping down in April 2016 he was the inaugural CEO of British Business Bank Investments where he was responsible for £1.5bn of UK Government Investment into UK SME’s, including some of the earliest institutional investments made to fuel growth of the UK marketplace lending sector.

Michael Baptista

Michael Baptista began his career as a banking sector equity research analyst. He recently founded Assembly Capital Advisors, a Fin Tech specialist VC firm, and prior to that held a number of head of department and ExCo roles at investment banks in both Europe and Asia including Credit Suisse, UniCredit, ABN Amro and RBS.

Contact Brismo

SPACES CITY POINT
1 Ropemaker Street
London
EC2Y 9HT