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Lending Club’s Renaud Laplanche Is Back With A New Venture

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Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club’s former CEO, is back with a new internet lending startup called Credify Finance Corp. But despite its early status, Credify comes into the market pre-wired for lots of attention — since its founder is both famous and infamous in online lending circles. Department of Justice.

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Inflated Credit Scores Put Lenders At Risk

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Bloomberg reported there are about 15 million more consumers that have credit scores of more than 740 today than back in 2006. What’s more, Bloomberg cited Moody’s as saying there are around 15 million fewer consumers with scores under 660 today then back in 2006.

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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. trillion; on security-related hardware, software and services at 10 percent a year from a 2018 base of $91.4

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have officially ended a two-year investigation of LendingClub, its subsidiary LC Advisors (LCA), its founder and former CEO Renaud Laplanche and its former CFO Carrie Dolan. On Friday (Sept. Attorney Alex Tse. “We The Response.

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FinTech’s Bright Future Marred by Hype

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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. The really interesting, though less juicy, story is what got Lending Club into trouble.

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Growing a new branch

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The community bank, which was started de novo in 2006, already had numerous commercial clients in the city; they had been referred by existing customers of Providence Bank’s five existing locations, clustered about 45 minutes east of Raleigh. Eventually, Providence secured three new employees to join Tobias in the new office.

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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. Square already has an SMB lending arm – Square Capital – which it operates through a deal with Utah-based Celtic Bank. That lending operation has been fairly successful for Square, and has lent out over $1.8 The Systemic Risk.

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