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JULY 19, 2016

Lending Club, which has been struggling to recover from loan errors and the departure of its Chief Executive (among other issues), has named Patrick Dunne, a veteran of BlackRock, as its new chief capital officer. Dunne is well known in financial circles and his appointment is seen as a boon to the beleaguered Lending Club.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

One area of impact is small business finance and lending, with small businesses and lenders seeing a slowdown in demand. Small business lending platform Funding Circle commented on this effect in its latest earnings data, noting that there has been “some deterioration” in its higher-risk small business loan bands in the U.K.

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MARCH 22, 2019

If data makes the world go ’round, so, too, does it garner investor interest, as evidenced by venture capital and other investors’ funds coming into the coffers of corporates that scrape the web for information. USD in series A funding from a consortium of investors, including Green Visor Capital. An Acquisition in Africa.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Florida FinTech Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) is partnering with London FinTech Liberis , to offer small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) an alternative funding source, FIS announced in a press release Wednesday (Jan. Worldpay and Liberis partnered in 2016 to launch Worldpay Business Finance in the U.K.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In the 2015 Growth Strategy Survey by Bank Director , the most commonly cited areas for growth were Commercial Real Estate Lending, C&I loans, SBA loans, and Construction loans. which means their capital needs fluctuate. businesses are sole proprietorships or small businesses. Small businesses in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

An alternative lending conglomerate based in the U.K. The firm is the holding company for an array of FinTech companies operating in supply chain finance, invoice finance and the dynamic discounting market. Many borrowers are neglected by banks and still face expensive funding and capital. reports noted.

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APRIL 28, 2017

venture capital sphere this week: VC funding for FinTech startups in Q1 alone hit $1.2 Analysts said the industry has seen its highest venture capital activity since Q1 of 2016, fueled by focus on late-stage investment rounds. Financial Services FinTech Practice Co-Leader Anthony Rjeily in a statement.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

China is an emerging FinTech hotbed thanks to its expanding middle class, rapid digitization and electronic payments adoption. But a new report from Citi found that, while China may be the market to watch for FinTech investments, the U.S. continues to thrive at the top of the B2B FinTech mountain.

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MARCH 7, 2018

The whirlwind of FinTech investment shows no signs of slowing. In fact, new data from venture capital (VC) analysis firm CB Insights, analyzed by global management consulting and professional services firm Accenture Financial Services, suggests FinTech startups’ VC funding hit a new high last year, with major deals in the U.S.,

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AUGUST 8, 2017

educated entrepreneurs met while working abroad at Renaissance Capital and Deutsche Bank. As the financial crisis unfolded in 2008, they met to discuss what they saw as the rise of FinTech and the increasing availability of financial software and data. Observing the rise of disruptive companies in Europe and the U.S.,

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 15, 2016

Bank Innovation Israel 2016 registration has officially opened today. The only Western fintech event in Startup Nation, the 2016 Bank Innovation Israel will take place 1-3 November at the Dan Tel Aviv. The event is presented by Bank Innovation, one of the world’s leading fintech blogs.

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JUNE 6, 2018

Alternative lending platform BlueVine has announced its latest investment to the tune of $60 million. A press release issued by the company said Menlo Ventures led the Series E equity funding round for BlueVine, which also saw backing from SVB Capital and other investors.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. The rise of FinTech offers a bit of a prism through which to view those events. As for lending to businesses, banks have still been a bit hesitant to lend to smaller firms.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The London-based FinTech B-Social raised £7.8 The only investor revealed was Rudy Karsan from Karlani Capital; the others are undisclosed. Founded in 2016, B-Social is a social payments app “where friends and money meet.” This new round of funding brings the startup’s total raised to £13.25 In 2018 , the company raised £3.2

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The FinTech space is hoping to address these challenges head-on, targeting the paper and manual-based processes of trade finance transactions though innovations like blockchain. The survey polled more than 515 banks and 1,336 companies across 103 countries, finding that FinTech innovators can, indeed, help address the $1.5

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MAY 18, 2020

Australia’s Judo Bank has attained unicorn status, according to FinTech Magazine , meaning it has achieved a valuation of at least $1 billion. Judo Bank, a challenger bank, received $148 million in a Series C funding round from investors, including existing backers like Ironbridge Capital and Bain Capital.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 30, 2016

Last week, I participated in a Finextra webinar on the topic of “Connected Credit and Compliance for Lending Growth” with panelists from ING, Vertus Partners, Misys and Credits Vision. Cost of compliance. Changing client expectations. Competition from new entrants.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

It was the (initially) small FinTech startups that delivered a collective shakeup to the small business (SMB) lending industry. Their next target could be small business lending, and according to some experts, it’s fast approaching the market. New reports in Bloomberg on Wednesday (Oct. We’re starting to see that.”.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

After a difficult deliberation, 10 early-stage fintech companies were selected by a team of judges to compete in this year’s DEMOvation Challenge, to take place in Seattle on March 1. Many applied, few were chosen.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Amid the talk of filling in the small business (SMB) financing gap banks have left since the financial crisis, the rush of FinTechs, alternative and marketplace lenders coming to market may have left another business segment behind: the middle market, particularly the lower middle market. It’s a very manual process — it really struck me.”.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Avant is best known among its financial services peers as a FinTech firm, founded to throw automation and an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced underwriting process at the problem of creating accessible, affordable personal loans for consumers. This is the bank’s product backed up by our brand.

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JULY 22, 2016

It feels like 2014 again with the ongoing popularity of alternative lending startups. It’s even more surprising given that 2016 could be the year that regulation begins to really kick in for these lenders — in the U.S., Alternative Lending. But the biggest funding round wasn’t in alternative finance. MarketInvoice.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 31, 2019

Financial institutions that want to play in the small business lending sandbox need to bring their digital toys. But how can community banks successfully compete with big banks and fintechs that are spending billions on their digital lending capabilities? Source: DeBanked ) Square Capital lent about $1.6

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

With the added investment, the lending company would be valued at $1.5 billion – which would be around double its valuation in April of 2016, when it had its latest round of fundraising. Current investors – including Founders Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures and Spark Capital – will take part in the investment round.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The Innovative Lending Platform Association (ILPA) has added three members, according to an announcement made on Monday (Sept. Alternative lending companies BlueVine , Fundbox and 6th Avenue Capital have joined the ILPA, an alternative small business (SMB) lending trade organization. billion in 2016.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

The global financial crisis in 2008 was, in many ways, a catalyst to this innovation, especially in the area of small business (SMB) finance, as banks pulled their services away from SMBs and FinTechs stepped in to offer another option. Now, a decade on, small business optimism is up in the U.S., Credit unions cannot invest more than 12.25

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APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Marketplace lending. Marketplace Lending.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 11, 2017

The transportation sector enjoyed VC spotlight throughout 2016, while the fintech sector was left in the shadow, according to Global Innovation Investment Report release by Crunchbase. When it comes to venture funding, the grass is (sometimes) greener in the other sector.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

With big banks pulling back from small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending in the wake of the global financial crisis, the market was ripe for someone else to fill the credit gap. Community banks approved 49 percent of SMB loan applications in November, according to the latest data from the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 24, 2016

Y Combinator President Sam Altman knows fintech — he helped Green Dot build GoBank, after all. So when only two fintech startups made it to the stage yesterday at Day 1 of its Summer Demo Day(s) 2016, we took notice. But today 10 of the 48 demoing companies are fintech-focused, Read More.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Europe is on the path to entice FinTechs. European Union (EU) finance ministers met this week to discuss ways in which the EU can ensure its FinTech industry is solid and promotes growth, an initiative some policymakers view as critical, as the U.K., a global FinTech hub, prepares to leave the EU following Brexit.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

For startups, 2016 wasn’t the best year in venture capital. VCs used 2016 to manage costs, set priorities and valuations,” explained Rahul Khanna, managing partner at Trifecta Capital, in an interview with Business Standard published Wednesday (Dec. Alt-Lending. and the U.S.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 12, 2017

Everything that happened in fintech this week in the U.K. Funding Circle raised $100 million for its peer-to-peer lending platform AND notched record lending activity in the final quarter of 2016 — AND pushed its U.K. is just plain wrong. operation into profitability. Oh, the indignity of it. Read More.

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APRIL 18, 2018

Australia’s adoption of alternative finance and FinTech is outpacing that of the U.S., according to OnDeck Capital Chief Executive Noah Breslow. These numbers are from KPMG in 2013, and in 2016 that had grown to $220 million.”. We are looking at an industry that did $10 million of annual volume,” he said.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

It was one of the biggest weeks for B2B FinTech investment in months. Alternative lending, eProcurement and cross-border payments innovators all saw impressive activity (though several funding values remained private), and one single startup raised $165 million — more than the rest of the eight other funding rounds this week combined.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

is no longer the world’s largest market for FinTech investment, according to the latest report from Citigroup, released this week. Analysts found that, in the first nine months of 2016, China held the top spot for FinTech investment, with funding raised for that period doubling compared to the same period in 2015. Lighthouse.io.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Investors appear to be racing to disperse funds before 2016 comes to an end — and fintechs are benefiting. In the past week, alt-payment companies have led the pack with eight-figure fund raises from high profile investors. Also filling their piggy banks were security and wealth management startups.

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