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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Marketplace lending. Marketplace Lending.

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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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With Home Equity Lacking, Will Millennials Embrace POS Financing?

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In 2006, 44 percent of tappable equity came from homeownerships with credit scores of 780; in 2017, the share had increased to 53 percent. And here is the kicker: “Much of the corresponding decline in share came from homeowners under 45, whose share of equity declined from 24 percent in 2006 to 14 percent in 2017.”.

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

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Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It’s still going under the stewardship of fintech famous Jim Marous, who modernized the name to Digital Banking Report (and recently opened the archives for free access).

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Renaud Laplanche Wants To Reinvent Consumer Credit: Here’s How

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When Renaud Laplanche founded LendingClub 12 years ago in 2006, the lending landscape was a very different place. Most consumer and business lending was done through traditional banks, and to say that peer-to-peer (P2P) or marketplace lending was nascent would be overly generous. More Data, More Products.

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The 134 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Feb 2021 update)

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At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). It is the 7th fintech unicorn based in India, and the 4th most valuable. The first, Divvy, is a corporate credit card and expense management firm in the same category with Brex, Expensify, and others. trillion up from $1.25

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The 134 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Jan 2021 update)

Fintech Labs Insights

At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). It is the 7th fintech unicorn based in India, and the 4th most valuable. The first, Divvy, is a corporate credit card and expense management firm in the same category with Brex, Expensify, and others. trillion up from $1.25