Qupital, Asia’s leading data-driven financing platform for SMEs in the new economy, today announced its new Series B2 financing round funded by a consortium of new and existing investors from Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. The fresh capital injection will be instrumental in scaling its securitisation facility backed by Citi, which supports its rapidly growing e-commerce loan portfolio.

China’s cross-border e-commerce merchants are largely underfunded despite Beijing’s push to boost the industry, according to Hong Kong-based lending start-up Qupital, which is hoping that its access to the city’s established capital market provides an answer.