Core product

Covenant Desk Lending

The system your lending business runs on. Enquiries, identity records and documents, built-in risk checks, human decisions, printable agreements, repayments and collections — one loan, one record.

  • 17,000+borrower records managed across corporate clients
  • Since 2026in paid production with a Hong Kong licensed lender
  • CDS readyrecords structured ahead of the proposed 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 is a complete system with its own database, not a layer over something else. Whatever you hold today — in Softmedia, in TE Credit, in spreadsheets — imports into it, and your staff get one screen for the work with every step recorded as it happens.

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
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 collect identity evidence and screen sanctions

Identity fields, supporting documents and sanctions-screening results stay with the borrower record for staff review.

  • Identity fields and supporting documents captured for staff review
  • UN sanctions screening with possible matches assigned to a named person
  • Automated HKID extraction, liveness, iAM Smart and PEP screening are not available today
Read the eKYC procurement guide
Two colleagues reviewing lending data on a tablet
03

You decide

Built-in scorecards assemble the context and surface reasons; a person still makes the call.

  • Built-in individual and SME scorecards, with reason codes and review triggers
  • 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

You produce the loan documents

Printable agreements, statements and receipts are generated from the recorded loan data, with downloads written to the audit trail.

  • Printable loan agreements generated from the loan record
  • Statements, receipts and download events kept with the operating record
  • Editable templates and online signing are not available today
Read the e-signature procurement guide
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 supports staff review

Optional staff-facing AI adds portfolio answers, underwriting hints, risk commentary and collections drafts alongside the source records.

  • Copilot answers questions against company-scoped records
  • Underwriting hints, risk commentary and collections drafts require staff verification
  • No loan is approved automatically — a named person signs off every decision
How the AI layer works
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

CDS readiness preview, not a submission file

A human-readable XLSX preview covers recent applications, approved terms and repayments and flags data issues. The official CRP format is not implemented; specification checks and submission remain the lender’s responsibility.

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

Three plans, each custom quoted for your operation.

Choose the scope that fits your lending operation. Portal software, seats, records, migration and implementation are custom quoted. AI, bots and the other add-ons keep their separate published prices.

01

Single company

One licensed lending company, running end to end.

Custom Scoped for your operation Includes 3 seats, 1 company, and 2,000 records
Request custom quote
03

Federation

Enterprise scale, with priority support.

Custom Scoped for your operation Includes 25 seats, 3 companies, and 20,000 records
Request custom quote

WhatsApp and email screening are add-ons on every plan and keep their separate published prices; AI review, verification, accounting sync and a TransUnion connection are coming soon.

Configure a custom quote

Choose a plan, add WhatsApp or email screening, and send the configuration for a quote — 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. No — it becomes your loan system. Covenant Desk Lending has its own database and does not depend on anything else running underneath it. If you are on Softmedia, TE Credit or spreadsheets today, we import those records so you keep your history, and the two can run side by side while you move across at your own pace.

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.