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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. Marketplace Lending. Blockchain. Digital banks. Blockchain. Take the blockchain.

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

Fintech Labs Insights

Innovations from 1995 to 2014 (with launch dates) Note: Ranking as of Jan 2014 Wells Fargo is first in the world to offer Web-statement access (launched May 1995) Security First Network Bank launches first full-service Internet bank brand (Oct 1995, disbanded 2002) PayPal launches first online optimized payment system (Nov 1999, bought by eBay in 2003) (..)

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. Attorney Alex Tse. “We The Response.

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

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Before this year, the last time that happened was in 2006, when Walmart made a move on an ILC. Walmart claimed it wanted to leverage the proposed bank mainly for the purpose of lowering costs of its backroom processing of check and credit card transactions and to offer high-interest certificates of deposits.

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A Regulatory Oversight?

Independent Banker

ICBA warns of risks of online marketplace lending models. Online marketplace lenders are a new form of nonbank specialty lending that uses technology platforms to allow Wall Street and individual investors to directly fund loans to consumers and small businesses. Lend exclusively over online peer-to-peer platforms.

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A Decline in Personal Savings

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Adding to the observation is the fact that from roughly 2001-2006, a devastating housing price bubble formed due to lax lending standards. According to the S&P/Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index, home prices rose a whopping 63% over that period (2001-2006) before beginning to crater heading into the Financial Crisis.

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Sizzle/Fizzle: AI Soars, Toys R Us Sinks And Start-Ups Struggle

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It is well below that of 2006, when that same figure hit 558,000 – and still trailing the 500K-600K that was the average in the U.S Want to accept credit cards? In 2015, 414,000 new businesses were formed in the latest year surveyed, according to the Census. The good news? That is slightly more than the previous year. The bad news?

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