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The Changing Face Of Short-Term Lending

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About a year ago, the CFPB, which now goes by the BCFP, dropped the final version of its payday lending regulations. Being compliant with these new regulations meant big changes to the payday lending process, including testing requirements to confirm a borrower’s ability to repay a loan on time while still meeting day-to-day expenses.

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Lending Club’s Terrible Twos

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Two years ago today, Lending Club was ringing the bell on an IPO that one early investor called “a no-brainer.”. Lending Club’s model does not need bank branches on each street corner, and it can turn around in minutes and hours, not days. “I So what went so right for LendingClub two years ago today at its IPO — and then so wrong?

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FTC Charges 12 With Laundering Millions In Credit Card Charges

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7) that it charged twelve people with money laundering millions of dollars in credit card charges via fraudulent merchant accounts. According a FTC press release, the defendants set up an operation known as Money Now Funding (MNF) to get and maintain merchant accounts that let it process credit card charges close to $6 million.

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Lending Club, Amex, Airbnb And PayPal: Why Payments Never Bores

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Lending Club continued to prove there is almost always more to the story, American Express announced a surprise collaboration with Airbnb and PayPal pushed harder into B2B payments. Lending Club’s Latest Bad News. The last several weeks of news for Lending Club suggest that there’s a little of both to be had here.

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Capital Float On The Path To Video-Based KYC Implementation

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Developing a quick, seamless and secure onboarding process for financial institutions (FIs), lending startups and other financial services providers has long posed its trials. The process involves capturing a user’s live photo to compare alongside an official document, such as an Aadhaar card, which bears a unique, 12-digit ID number.

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Wells CFO Not Losing Sleep Over Rising Consumer Debt

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According to news from Reuters , Wells Fargo ’s Shrewsberry said that banks are being competitive in getting consumers to use their credit cards but that easy access to credit hasn’t led to meaningful credit card defaults yet. That’s probably at the margin where excess leverage will show up.

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Digital Bank Chime Suffers Outage Affecting 5M Customers

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The outage has been going on for the last 24 hours, taking down the company’s website and app, as well as shutting down customers’ debit cards. We can assure you all account information remains secure, and no personal or financial data is at risk.”. Earlier this year, it reached a valuation of $1.5