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Consumer Lending: Should Banks Do It?

Jeff For Banks

When I first read Standards Needed for Safe, Small Installment Loans from Banks, Credit Unions by the Pew Charitable Trusts that encouraged financial institutions to get back into small ticket consumer lending, I thought “what are they nuts!” Ever since we formed our company in 2001, this has been the case. And it wasn’t an anomaly.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. High-tech employment fell from 12.1

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, Date: September 3, 2001. Zynga and OMGPOP. Date: March 21, 2012. Price: $210M. a viral gaming hit for iOS and Android. ” 11. HP and Compaq.

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The 260 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Oct 2021)

Fintech Labs Insights

5 Nov 2021. June 2021 round. 5 Nov 2021. 5 Nov 2021. July 2021 round. 5 Nov 2021. 5 Nov 2021. August 2021 exit to Square. 5 Nov 2021. Aug 2021 round. FTX Exchange. Oct 2021 round. 5 Nov 2021. New Zealand. Accounting. 5 Nov 2021. South Korea. Nov 2018 transaction. 5 Nov 2021. 5 Nov 2021. Wise ( TransferWise ). 5 Nov 2021. Jan 2016 round. Better.com.

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The Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Dec 2021)

Fintech Labs Insights

August ’21 exit to Square. Aug ’21 round. FTX Exchange. Oct ’21 round. South Korea. Nov ’18 transaction. New Zealand. Accounting. Secondary market May 21. Mar ’21 SPAC (proposed). Dec ’19 round. Wise ( TransferWise ). Aug ’21 round. Payroll/SMB. Oscar Health. Jan ’16 round. Better.com. May ’21 SPAC annoucement. April ’21 round. Aug ’21 round.

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The 266 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Nov 2021)

Fintech Labs Insights

July 2021 round. August 2021 exit to Square. South Korea. Secondary market May 21. Checkout.com. Jan 2021 round. One97 (PayTM). Dec 2021 round. Jan 2016 round. Better.com. May 2021 SPAC annoucement. Dec 2021 round. April 2021 round. Wise ( TransferWise ). Sep 2021 round. June 2021 round. Netherlands. Nov 2021 round. Estimate based on 2021 IPO value.

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17 Of The Biggest Startup Frauds Of All Time

CB Insights

Pixelon: Online video vaporware. LendingClub was one of many online lending services founded in the mid-2000s as entrepreneurs eyed the Byzantine financial sector as an area ripe for disruption. Founded by Renaud Laplanche in 2006, LendingClub quickly became one of the largest online lenders in the US. Total Funding: N/A.

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