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CashCall, Courts And California’s Increasingly Confusing Lending Market

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Headquartered in Orange County, California and founded in 2003, CashCall is a big firm that consumers likely know best from its early commercials featuring the late Gary Coleman. All that to say this has been an especially tough week for CashCall, and possibly the entire installment lending industry in the state. At least, they did.

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The Final CFPB Prepaid Card Rule Is Here (Expect Controversy)

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The use of prepaid cards has exploded over the last decade or so — in 2003 consumers put less than $1 billion on prepaid cards annually, but by 2012 that figure had grown to $65 billion and by 2018 that figure is projected to reach as much as $121 billion. The user base of prepaid cards has grown significantly as well.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: The Ant Financial IPO?

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As is well known by now, Ant Financial , the Chinese micro-lending Internet player, has raised a whopping $4.5 The funding is a striking portrait of demand by investors with dry powder to gain entry into a nascent, technology driven market. But there are such things as natural market forces, and price discovery that comes in tandem.

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Fighting digital banking fraud – Part 1: Know the threat

NCR

.” Metropolitan Police Service commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe said “warning lights are flashing”, with the full extent of online crime and fraud only just becoming clear. million people over the past year, marking a record high since Javelin began tracking identity fraud in 2003. Javelin has estimated that 7.7

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Springboard to Excellence

Independent Banker

imberly Anderson, senior vice president and chief administrative officer of Cañon National Bank in southern Colorado, became her community bank’s loan compliance officer in 2003. It teaches bankers how to develop a compliance program, meet lending compliance requirements, and comply with deposit and marketing regulations.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

CB Insights

He later joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers as a partner for a period between 1999 and 2003. Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc. Notable Investments: Lending Club (IPO), DocuSign , Square (IPO), Spotify (IPO), Twitter (IPO), Houzz. BRIAN SINGERMAN.

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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!, In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd.

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