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Beneficial State Bank’s financial activism

Independent Banker

Location: Oakland, Calif. billion-asset community bank in Oakland, Calif., Most organizations … are like, ‘Where is the most profitable market segment?’” What we do is we take that ethos and apply it to all of our decision-making in our product development or marketing. In March 2020, workers at Oakland, Calif.-based

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How A Bank And A FinTechs Are Jointly Cracking The Code On Financial Inclusion

PYMNTS

Of course, banks have to be run with safety and soundness to protect those deposits, but they also have myriad public mandates, like fair lending, anti-money laundering and customer privacy. The teams at FinTech startup LendUp and Oakland-based Beneficial State Bank think very differently about that relationship. percent to 29.99

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Building from Scratch

Independent Banker

Bank Headquarters: Oakland, Calif. Like a craftsman bricklayer steadily assembling a sturdy house, Nelson built her successful career and her community bank in Oakland, Calif., Two years later, Nelson moved as a single mom to Oakland, where she again found a job as a teller at a regional bank. By Beth Mattson-Teig. Branches: 3.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

Hughes, Senior Vice President of Card Marketing, Discover Financial Services, Deerfield, Ill. Kukla, Senior Vice President, Center for Responsible Lending, Durham, N.C. DeBery, Senior Vice President, Internal Audit and Risk Management, Bath Savings Institution, Bath, Maine. Christopher G. Kathleen J. Ricardo ‘Ricky’ D.

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Watch 9 Fintech Startups Pitch at Techstars & Western Union Demo Day (Oct 2020)

Fintech Labs Insights

Description: Alternative credit scoring and lending in emerging markets. Description: Digital banking and spend management platform for global NGOs. Metrics: – LOIs with 3 major non-profits – $80M of aid payments already committed – Another $87M in pipeline – 1% global market share BEFORE full launch. HQ: Oakland, CA.

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Fintech Fundings: 39 Companies Raise $930 Million Week Ending April 15

Fintech Labs Insights

Equities markets operator. P2P lending platform. P2P lending platform. Automotive lending platform. Wealth managment platform. Lend Street Financial. P2P lending platform. HQ: Oakland, California. Student lending. HQ: Oakland, California. Latest round: $252.7 million IPO.

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Fintech Fundings: 9 Companies Raise $73 Million Week Ending Dec 31

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Oakland, California. Payments and commerce solutions for unbanked in emerging markets. Social media management & compliance for financial institutions . Credit risk management. HQ: Trieste, Tags: SMB, credit, lending, trade financing, underwriting, commerce. Latest round: $46 million Series A. million Seed.