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Ant’s IPO Journey Faces Regulatory Hill – Is Lending In Crosshairs?

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3), stock exchanges in Shanghai and Hong Kong have suspended the looming IPO (initial public offering) in Ant Group, citing regulatory changes in the financial services landscape — and summoning executives including controller Jack Ma to meet with Chinese regulators at the China Securities Regulatory Commission.

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Currency Comptroller: New Plan Regulating Marketplace Lending

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Pivoting from concerns and risks around financial technology innovation in the banking system, the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency said the agency will roll out a new framework for regulating marketplace lending.

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Fostering the Financial Technology Infrastructure of Tomorrow

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Anyone with an idea of how we might conduct business better and more efficiently, be it in wealth management, lending, insurance, or payments, could bring it to life with ease. Entrepreneurial individuals could find all the tools they need to innovate consolidated in one place, which meet all of their data requirements and analytical needs.

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Meet Our 2023 FICO Decisions Awards Judges

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Meet Our 2023 FICO Decisions Awards Judges. FICO has announced its panel of independent judges for the 2023 FICO® Decisions Awards , which honor businesses achieving outstanding results using analytics and decision management technology to grow their business, manage risk and reduce costs. Meet Our 2022 FICO Decisions Awards Judges.

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SMB Lending And The ‘Pay-As-You-Go’ B2B Future

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Mired in paper though transactions may be, financial tech firms are moving to promote speed and to bridge the gap in lending between businesses and their suppliers or customers. The purpose of a bank is to meet this need,” said Ramamurthi, and yet, the documentation and the underwriting process can be unwieldy.

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Quona Capital Raises $203M For FinTech-Boosting Fund

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Over the past year, the Accion Quona Inclusion Fund has seen nine investments, which include digital commerce company Ula, digital consumer lending company JULO, end-to-end insurance company Sunday and others. With the fund’s latest close, Quona Capital ’s assets under management (AUM) are at $363 million.

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China’s Ant Group Mulling Creation Of New Consumer Loan Unit

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Creation of the new unit would be part of a much larger overhaul of the financial technology company and subject to approval by Chinese authorities, who pulled the plug on the company’s massive initial public offering late last year, according to Bloomberg. Ant Group had $263 billion in outstanding consumer loans as of June 2020.

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