Mikkel Velin Global Head of Lending Solutions, Banking Circle Mikkel Velin, Global Head of Lending Solutions at Banking Circle, is an expert in alternative financing, having co-founded the peer to peer lending platform, YouLend in 2015. Mikkel is responsible for managing and developing Banking Circle’s new lending solutions, including Banking Circle Lending and Banking Circle Receivables Factoring. Before launching YouLend, Mikkel was a high yield portfolio manager and partner at Rogge Global Partners plc and Allianz Global Investors. He is a qualified attorney-at-law (non-practising) and previously worked at a tier-one law firm in Copenhagen, specialising in Corporate Finance and M&A, including cross border M&A transactions.