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Interest, Auto Lending And Credit Cards Boost Capital One’s Q1

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Capital One logged stronger than expected results when it posted its earnings yesterday — the growth was driven largely by rising interest rates and an uptick in its largest lending categories, cars and cards. Capital One reported net income up 71 percent to $1.3 By The Numbers . billion from a year earlier.

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Alt-Lending Conglomerate TruFin Lands $97M In IPO

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An alternative lending conglomerate based in the U.K. Its units include Distribution Finance Capital, Satago and Oxygen Finance, while it also owns a minority stake in peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Zopa. The companies were grouped together between 2014 and 2017 after investments and acquisitions by Arrowgrass Master Fund Ltd.,

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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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Alt-Lending Regulation Fears Won’t Stop Investors

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It feels like 2014 again with the ongoing popularity of alternative lending startups. Earlier this week, reports emerged that some alternative lending and industry professionals are beginning to heighten their anxieties about incoming regulation, particularly as some ponder whether the U.S. Alternative Lending.

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Lending Club’s Bombshell And Alt-Lending Aftershocks

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Renaud Laplanche , Former CEO of Lending Club, in a 2013 interview. Those were the good old days of Lending Club, a Silicon Valley darling that was the next big thing in lending. Lending Club was the poster child of that alt lending movement. I want to create something new and innovative.” He was far from alone.

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PayPal Working Capital Cites Growth In U.K. Volume

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unit is offering an update on the progress made by PayPal Working Capital. The company revealed Monday (June 19) that it has facilitated more than $500 million (£400 million) in working capital to U.K. small businesses via its financing solution, which launched in 2014. Managing Director Mark Brant in a statement. “In

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Wells Fargo Seeks Bidders For Private-Label Credit Card Unit

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In 2014, then-CFO John Shrewsberry told investors at a conference that the bank was looking to add to its private-label credit card business. Bloomberg said the bank had been gauging interest in its $607 billion asset manager unit and $10 billion student loan portfolio. percent in 2019 and its share of borrowings at 3.63

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