Core product

Covenant Desk Lending

The system your lending business runs on. Enquiries, identity checks, credit decisions, agreements, repayments and collections — one loan, one record, from first contact to final payment.

  • 17,000+borrower records managed across corporate clients
  • Since 2026in paid production with a Hong Kong licensed lender
  • CDS readyrecords structured ahead of the 1 June 2027 rules
Covenant Desk Lending
What it is

Everything a loan touches, in one system.

Most lenders run a single loan across four or five places: a spreadsheet for the pipeline, a ledger for the balances, WhatsApp for the borrower, email for the documents, and somebody’s memory for the rest. When a client calls, it takes three people to answer a simple question.

Covenant Desk Lending puts the whole thing in one place. It sits on top of the loan ledger you already run — it does not replace Softmedia or your core system — and gives your staff one screen for the work, with every step recorded as it happens.

Why lenders move

From five places to one.

01

How it usually works

  • Enquiries arrive by phone, WhatsApp and email and get lost between them
  • A separate ledger per company, so nobody sees the group picture
  • Identity and AML evidence sits in a folder, not on the loan
  • Overdue chasing runs off a spreadsheet somebody updates by hand
  • Answering “what happened on this loan?” means asking three people
02

How it works here

  • Every enquiry lands in one queue and is matched to a borrower
  • One search finds a person across all the companies you run
  • Checks, documents and approvals attach to the loan itself
  • Overdue and upcoming sit in a queue that says what to chase first
  • The loan’s own history answers the question
The loan, end to end

Six stages. One record.

Each stage below is implemented and in use — not a roadmap. The result and the evidence behind it stay attached to the borrower and the loan.

A person looking out over Hong Kong harbour
01

A borrower gets in touch

New enquiries and returning clients arrive through whichever channel they prefer. They all end up in the same queue.

  • Enquiries from your website, WhatsApp and email land in one inbox
  • Returning borrowers are matched to the record they already have
  • Nothing sits unread in one person’s private inbox
A phone showing a Covenant Desk borrower sign-in screen
02

You check who they are

Identity and screening run as part of the application, and the outcome is filed against the borrower rather than emailed around.

  • HKID capture with a liveness check; iAM Smart confirmation supported
  • Sanctions and PEP screening, with the result and its evidence kept on file
  • Poor images and mismatches go to a named person, not a silent failure
How the eKYC step works
Two colleagues reviewing lending data on a tablet
03

You decide

Scoring and rules are yours to configure. The system assembles the context; a person still makes the call.

  • Your own scoring and decision rules, visible and editable — not a black box
  • See every loan a borrower holds across your companies before approving another
  • Affordability inputs and the approval reason stay on the record afterwards
How scoring and rules work
A laptop showing a Covenant Desk loan tracking screen
04

They sign, you disburse

Agreements come out of your own templates, get signed electronically, and stay attached to the loan they belong to.

  • Loan agreements generated from your templates, not retyped
  • Signed electronically, timestamped, and stored against the loan
  • Approved terms captured in the shape CDS reporting will ask for
How e-signature works
A borrower making a repayment on their phone
05

You get paid

Repayment work stops being a spreadsheet. Overdue and upcoming sit together, ordered by what actually needs attention.

  • One queue for overdue and upcoming, ranked by value and days late
  • Lender-specific FPS references so payments reconcile to the right loan
  • Borrowers can check a balance and pay without calling your staff
The Covenant Desk portal open on a laptop
06

AI does the reading

The paperwork gets read and summarised so your staff spend their time on judgement instead of retyping.

  • Statements and documents are extracted into fields a person can check
  • A case summary with the source of each figure, so it can be verified
  • No loan is approved automatically — a named person signs off every decision
How the AI layer works
The daily screen

What your team opens every morning.

One search box finds a borrower by HKID, name, phone or loan number, across every company you run. Open them and the whole relationship is on one page: current loans, past loans, documents, payments, notes, and who did what.

  • 01One search across every company you operate
  • 02A single borrower page instead of six browser tabs
  • 03A repayment queue that tells you what to chase first
  • 04Bilingual English and Traditional Chinese throughout
  • 05Every sensitive lookup recorded, with phone numbers masked
Covenant Desk Lending on a desktop, tablet and phone: the portfolio overview, loan status and global search on the staff portal, and a borrower's own loans on mobile
Where the line sits

What the software does, and what stays with you.

01

You lend, we don’t

Covenant Desk Lending is software. It does not provide loans, hold funds, or sign agreements on your behalf.

02

The decision is yours

Terms, approvals and affordability judgements are made by your staff under your own credit policy.

03

Your data stays yours

Borrower and loan records live in your own workspace, scoped by role and company.

04

Access is recorded

Exact-HKID lookups across companies are permission-scoped and audit-logged, and phone numbers are masked in the portal.

05

Ready for CDS, submitted by you

Applications, approved terms and repayment history are structured for export ahead of the rules effective 1 June 2027. The submission remains the lender’s.

06

It sits on your ledger

Existing borrower, loan and repayment data syncs across from Softmedia or TE Credit rather than being replaced.

Plans and pricing

Covenant Desk Lending plans. Buy now, or start with a demo.

Start from as little as HK$2,000/month. Extra staff seats are HK$1,000 one-time each; monthly pricing scales by lending companies and loan records at checkout.

01

Starter

Start with one licensed lending company.

HK$2,000/mo HK$0 self-serve setup Includes 3 seats, 1 company, and 2,000 records
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03

Federation

Oversee multiple connected lending companies.

HK$14,000/mo HK$20,000 setup Includes 25 seats, 3 companies, and 20,000 records
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CapabilityStarterGrowthFederation
Connected lender operations113 included
Included users31025
Included loan records2,00010,00020,000
Inbound request inboxProfile onlyIncludedIncluded
Management portalBasicTeam workflowMulti-entity
Client app and borrower visibilityDiscussIncludedCustom
AI-assisted reviewNot includedIncludedCustom controls
Support levelStandardImplementation supportPriority
Configure & buy now

Choose a bundle, add AI, bots, and portal functions, and check out securely — or book a demo call first. You can do both.

Before you book

The questions lenders ask us first.

If yours is not here, ask it on the demo — we would rather answer it before you buy.

Book a demo

No. It runs on top of the ledger you already use. Borrower, loan, overdue and notice data syncs across from connected Softmedia or TE Credit instances, and your core system keeps doing what it does. Replacing it is a separate conversation, not a requirement.

See it against your own loan book.

Bring your company list, your staff roles, the systems you run today, and the workflow that costs you the most time. We will show you that workflow, not a generic tour.