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P2P lending makes it to main street?

Celent Banking

On the social aspect of banking, Banco Colpatria in Colombia offers credit cards to individuals using Lenddo’s social scoring. I believe it will have them as main actors, therefor competing directly with the fintech-startups, such as the P2P lending companies. Can old dogs learn new tricks? What about banks? Change or die.

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Banks, FinTechs Wield Open Banking For SMB Finance

PYMNTS

The company announced this week that 14 partners have signed on to OpenLending, which offers an API to connects banks, FinTechs, brokers, accountants and bookkeeping platforms on a single portal to customize their loan offerings. Santander Turns To M&A For Trade Finance. Standard Chartered Enters Banking-as-a-Service.

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55 US Companies That Became Unicorns In 2018

CB Insights

Silicon Valley produced plenty of $1B+ companies in 2018, but other parts of the country also had a strong showing. Check out our real-time Unicorn Tracker for a full list of $1B+ companies). Get an excel file with the entire list of US unicorns including each company’s total funding, investors and more. Epic Games.