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SoFi-Social Capital Merger Will Fuel Growth Of One-Stop-Shop Financial Supermarket

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7) that it was merging with publicly-traded Social Capital in an $8.6 The SoFi deal marks at least the third such transaction done by the Social Capital SPAC, Palihapitiya said in a televised interview on CNBC, adding that the deal was driven by the fact that banking infrastructure isn't currently meeting the needs of U.S.

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Why The Goldman-Amazon Bet On SMB Lending Is No Sure Thing

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Goldman, according to reports in Bloomberg, would be added to the Amazon lending platform, which has traditionally helped merchants get the funding they need to get inventory. Amazon Lending traces its roots back to 2011, and the company had $863 million in SMB loans, according to recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Social Capital Teardown

CB Insights

This teardown features annotations & commentary by four Social Capital partners. Thanks to the Social Capital team for updating/confirming their portfolio data on the CB Insights Editor. Social Capital is a VC fund with a focus on healthcare and education. CB Insights Note. Investment syndicates. BEST OF DISRUPTION REPORT.

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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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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 billion in equity capital since its founding in 2011. billion in equity capital, with a market capitalization close to book value. By comparison, over 100 year old and $7.7

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

Fintech Labs Insights

I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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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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