PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

For small businesses, expansion is key, and expansion needs capital. In a partnership formed recently with Puerto Rico’s Oriental Bank, Biz2Credit said late last month that it has begun offering its digital lending platform to the bank’s commercial clients. 500,000 in the United States, with terms of three to five years.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 16, 2021

Upgrade , an online lending platform, has raised $105M in a Series E. The round drew participation from Black River Ventures, Ventura Capital, and Koch Disruptive Technologies. Since its inception in 2017, Upgrade has provided mainstream customers with over $7B in credit through cards and loans. Want the full post?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

Not all is lost in the online lending space. The company makes loans to people who seek to pay off their credit card debt. The money being lent out comes, mostly, from Eaglewood Capital Management. TechCrunch reported on Thursday (June 16) that Payoff has raised a nice payoff of $46.7 million financing round.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

Bad news hit the startup community this week as new analysis from CBInsights revealed a significant decline in venture capital (VC) funding in the first quarter of 2020. In addition to invoice finance, the company offers SMBs a range of other solutions, including order management and online payments tools. Xtracap Fintech.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

Barclays announced that it has appointed Shane Holdaway as the company’s CEO of its cards and payments division in the U.S. For the past five years, Holdaway was the president of Capital One’s Canadian division, and played a leading role in the company becoming the exclusive credit card issuer for Costco Wholesale Canada.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Online FinTech startup SoFi announced Thursday (Jan. 7) that it was merging with publicly-traded Social Capital in an $8.6 billion deal that brings it instant liquidity and avoids the uncertainty of the initial public offering (IPO) process, while leaving it better positioned to take on legacy banks.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2019

The 2008 financial crisis gave rise to the alternative lending market as a result of a massive gap in available capital, especially for small businesses and startups. Alternative finance , for instance, also filled the need for small business borrowers to obtain a faster, digital way to access capital.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Goldman, according to reports in Bloomberg, would be added to the Amazon lending platform, which has traditionally helped merchants get the funding they need to get inventory. Amazon Lending traces its roots back to 2011, and the company had $863 million in SMB loans, according to recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 23, 2018

As mobile wallets and consumer-to-business payments platforms grow in popularity as the preferred payment method among retail shoppers, it seems only natural that merchants should consider digital POS lending or instant financing options as a means to encourage more online purchases. Indeed, they are. Read More.

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Accenture

MAY 30, 2019

Each quarter, Ryan Douglas from the Card Issuing group compiles key metrics on US consumer credit cards, tracking spend, receivables, loss rates and returns reported by the largest US banks. Chase, Capital One and Synchrony continue to lead issuers with purchase volume growth of over 8 percent YoY?. New partnerships.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Merchants and disbursements providers need to innovate quickly to stand up against their competitors, many of which are smaller FinTechs or startups that can capitalize on the host of customers that near-exclusively transact and receive money through digital and mobile devices. About the Tracker.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Mobile payments company Square grew its gross payment volume 34% over last year, and its loans through Square Capital were up twice that — 68%. The San Francisco-based company processed $13.7 billion in payments in the fourth quarter of 2016, compared with $10.2 billion in the same quarter last year. Read More.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

American Express, the payments company, reported Monday (April 15) that credit card delinquency rates in March were flat with February, which should be welcome news as investors look for more signs the U.S. consumer cards was 1.5 Some are tightening credit standards for more risky borrowers while others are aiming to shore up capital.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

American Express is expanding its small business lending services. Business Loans, as the services are called, provide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with working capital and short-term financing solutions, American Express said in a press release, enabling small businesses to access up to $50,000. “Our

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

“But we remain strong, with our capital and liquidity levels well above regulatory minimums.”. On the plus side, Wells Fargo reported that card fees rose to $912 million in the third period, up from $797 million in second quarter. Wells Fargo also saw heightened debit card usage during Q3. billion in the period, up 11.1

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Cards Operations Report Mobile 206

PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. Take payroll cards.

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PYMNTS

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. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Mortgages and Credit Cards and Student Debt…. Mortgages ?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Today in B2B payments, Wells Fargo rolls out its virtual card services for B2B payments, while PayPal Ventures makes a B2B payments investment. 19) announced in a press release that it is adding a new solution to its WellsOne Virtual Commercial Card , enabling business customers to digitally pay invoices to suppliers and others.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2017

With home loan growth expected to slow to 4 percent in 2018, National Australia Bank (NAB) wants to build its business elsewhere, namely in SME lending. A report in The Australian on Monday (July 31) revealed news that the NAB is adding new features to its small business (SMB) lending unit, QuickBiz, in an effort to build market share.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has, as finews.asia reported this past week, amended its credit risk management guidelines in a way that seeks to boost the embrace of analytics when lending to smaller firms.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2018

get the entire 47-page lending report. See how startups and big tech are reinventing traditional lending. Download our deep dive into the disruption of lending. As competition increases and POS lending goes mainstream, startups are raising substantial funds to grab market share. a transparent alternative to credit cards.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2019

More than $213 million was raised, with investors targeting a range of solutions from alternative lending to document and application programming interface (API) management. based Salaryo will focus on scaling its online service that connects freelancers and entrepreneurs with financing for security deposits on co-working spaces.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 12, 2016

Scandals aside, Lending Club has been doing well in the area that mattered — borrowers were paying back their loans. But a new report from the Wall Street Journal indicates that chargeoff rates at Lending Club are up 38% since 2013. This is troubling because credit card default rates decreased over the Read More.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

FinTechs that landed new funding include a firm targeting friction in B2B payments in the construction space, alternative small business lenders and a company helping accountants guide their SMB clients toward capital. Hillhouse Capital led the firm’s “D1” round, while Sequoia China led its “D2” raise.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Social Finance, or SoFi for short, is nearing an agreement to raise as much as $500 million in a new venture capital funding round, Bloomberg reported. That tally is likely to be led by Silver Lake Partners, the newswire said, and will be geared toward boosting the online lending and personal finance offerings now under SoFi’s umbrella.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

The big news in B2B FinTech investment this week came from Airbnb , which is bolstering its presence in the business travel market with new funding, while corporate card startup Brex also secured a prominent debt capital investment. The company said it plans to use the investment to further build out its lending operations.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2017

The alternative lending industry continues to scoff at doubters, and the latest B2B venture capital roundup suggests confidence is growing in the space — and not just in the U.S., Last month was a booming time for alternative lending when top names, like BlueVine, scored hefty sums. Alt-Lending. Funding Circle.

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Abrigo

JULY 5, 2020

Indeed, with in-person contact between members and staff prohibited by stay-at-home orders during the pandemic, credit unions relied on online loan applications to collect information from the deluge of prospective borrowers who sought funds in the first round of PPP funding. The SBA didn’t break out larger credit union PPP lending activity.)

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

Online to offline coming to Walmart near you, and we mean that sincerely. Online lending . Costco Card. The Costco Card has generated a lot of buzz. But all that buzz was based on anticipation and the hope that the card would be all it is cracked up to be. A pretty clear-cut sizzle. The fizzle wears on.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2020

“Given how much the demand for installments is increasing, we are also using the already existing parts of the credit system today to scale installment payments with every [Visa] card across the board,” Cetin Duransoy , Visa ’s global head of installment solutions, told PYMNTS. Fast and Furious BNPL Action. The account comes with 1.30

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

This new financing will help us to accelerate the development of the company both in terms of products, with the addition of local currency accounts, payment card, integration with accounting software, and geographically, as we will target new markets in South-East Asia,” Statrys Founder and CEO Bertrand Theaud said in the announcement.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Two fintechs announced new products and services this week geared toward e-commerce sellers, pointing to gaps in offerings from banks and legacy card companies to provide seamless, affordable solutions for online-based businesses looking to scale up quickly or stock up for busier seasons. provides […].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Plus, online lending startup SoFi is looking to go public through a SPAC. Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company to debut on the stock market. Capital One Halts BNPL Transactions On Its Credit Cards.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 9, 2016

Investors were looking to today’s Lending Club Corp. earnings as a sign of validation for the troubled marketplace lending sector. Instead, they got scandal. The company said Renaud Laplanche has resigned as chief executive and chairman after an internal review found sales of $22 million in near-prime loans to a Read More.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.” — John Collison.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After his departure from SoFi, Cagney moved quickly on to his next venture: Figure Technologies Inc , a new online lending venture built around using the blockchain to offer cheaper, faster and more efficient digital loans products. The firm has raised $50 million from investors, including venture capital firms Ribbit Capital and DCM.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2020

Tens of thousands of households are in dire financial straits, sending more people turning to unsecured personal loans and credit cards for a quick bailout. Bigger lenders — JPMorgan Chase , Bank of America , Capital One and Santander — are pouring over various borrowing rules and making revisions, informed sources told the WSJ.

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