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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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Goldman Sachs Provides $100M Loan To Konfio

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Goldman Sachs Group is giving a $100 million loan to Konfio, marking the first time the lender’s structured finance, investment and lending business has provided a credit facility to a Latin American FinTech. I lived through the subprime crisis,” said Arana, who worked at Deutsche Bank AG in New York from 2006 to 2013. “In

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

Fintech Labs Insights

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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FinTech’s Bright Future Marred by Hype

PYMNTS

Unfortunately, “60 Minutes,” famous for investigative journalism, missed the really big story in FinTech. A few days later, one of the founding fathers of FinTech, Renaud Laplanche , was forced out of Lending Club, the peer-to-peer lender he founded in 2006, following scandals over loan disclosures and conflicts of interest.

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The 134 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Feb 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. It’s currently tied for 96th most valuable across all fintech, and 36th most valuable payments company. Full Fintech Unicorn List. Value Date.

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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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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. It’s currently tied for 96th most valuable across all fintech, and 36th most valuable payments company. Full Fintech Unicorn List. Value Date.