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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

PYMNTS

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. The rise of FinTech offers a bit of a prism through which to view those events. As for lending to businesses, banks have still been a bit hesitant to lend to smaller firms.

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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

More talk about fintech, dinosaur bankers, and flavors of the month. How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? Sticking with the Apple theme, in 2007, they launched the iPhone.

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Don't Bank. SoFi

Jeff For Banks

After its most recent capital raise in September, SoFi, a marketplace lender that focuses on millennials, has raised nearly $1.5 How good is their system compared to FICO, or other FinTechs that feel they are more evolved in credit risk management? Similarly, SBA guarantees reduce risk for small business lending. We don't know.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. Download the free report to find out how fintech is shaping the future of wealth management and investing. get the REPORT on next generation investors.

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OnDeck Adds New Small Business Lending Options

Fintech Labs Insights

.” Pictured (left to right): Miranda Lanzillotti, Marketing Communications Manager, and Pamela Rice, Senior Vice President of Technology, for OnDeck, discussing lending APIs at FinDEVr 2014. And last month, the company teamed up with Intuit to launch a $100 million lending fund for small businesses.

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The $70K Dent The Financial Crisis Put In The US Consumer’s Pocketbook

PYMNTS

2007, most people remember a different date as “real” start to the Great Recession: Sept. Adding to the fun — consumers born in the 1980s to 1990s (aka millennials) that are widely counted as the future of economy — carry the highest debt load of any generation according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St.

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Zopa Surpasses £2 Billion Loan Mark

Fintech Labs Insights

“Over the last 12 years, we’re proud to say we’ve helped over a third of a million people get better interest rates for both borrowing and lending.” Both individuals and businesses (as long as they are not lenders themselves) are allowed to lend money through Zopa for investment purposes.