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Facing Tougher Times, Prosper Marketplace Is Making Deep Staff Cuts

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According to Wall Street Journal reports, the online lender is shedding 28 percent of its staff and rearranging its executive team. The biggest individual cut will be a Utah office dedicated to lending for medical procedures, but 14 percent of Prosper’s San Francisco- and Phoenix-based workforce is also on its way out the door.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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By using funds managed by LCA to benefit its parent company, LCA and Laplanche failed to do so.”. Last week’s announcements capped off two years of investigation into the P2P lending firm, and its board has expressed some relief that it seems to be time to turn the page on the events of 2016. Attorney Alex Tse. “We The Response.

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

Fintech Labs Insights

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. And each January, we ranked all previous recipients into a master list.

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Billions Of Dollars Wasted, But Soaring SME Optimism

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We examine the findings from several market reports on small business access to capital, lending, growth and employment. The expense management company says that employees that fudge the numbers on their expense reports to get reimbursed are hitting their employers hard. . billion in loans were taken out by small U.K.

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A Regulatory Oversight?

Independent Banker

ICBA warns of risks of online marketplace lending models. Online marketplace lenders are a new form of nonbank specialty lending that uses technology platforms to allow Wall Street and individual investors to directly fund loans to consumers and small businesses. Typical Practices of Online Lenders. capital policy.

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CFPB issues Office of Servicemember Affairs 2019 annual report

CFPB Monitor

Checking or savings accounts (7%): The majority of complaints in this category focused on issues with managing an account. The Bureau analyzed servicemember first-time homebuyer data over a ten-year period from 2006-2016. Notably, only 2 percent of servicemember complaints involved struggling to pay their credit card bills.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

bank failures per year between 1996 and 2006, and 3.6 The old borrow short, lend long strategy. To you, manage your interest rate risk. Who would’ve thought lending $1 million to a San Francisco cab driver to buy a house at 100% loan to value would go bad? In 2006, the then $686 million in asset bank made $8.8

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