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Financial Services Platform SoFi Plans IPO Via SPAC

PYMNTS

Silicon Valley startup Social Finance (SoFi) is closing a merger deal with blank-check firm Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. Social Capital Hedosophia is one of three special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) on the lookout for investment opportunities. V to file an initial public offering (IPO). . billion in cash proceeds.

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The macroprudential toolkit: effectiveness and interactions

BankUnderground

We found that capital requirements reduce the effects of financial shocks. Instead, a limit on how much of borrowers’ income is spent on mortgage interest payments reduces the volatility of lending, output and inflation resulting from housing market shocks. Model 2 added capital requirements. What we do.

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Competition Heats Up Between Large FIs, Small Banks, Alt Lenders ? And SMBs Win

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Biz2Credit’s latest Small Business Lending Index found that loan approval rates at alternative lenders stagnated – and at credit unions, they actually fell. Thirty percent of small business loan applications at big banks got approved in May, according to Biz2Credit’s latest Small Business Lending Index.

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How Faster Underwriting, Credit Analysis Unlock Faster Loan Payments

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They can also supply banks and other FIs with a better sense of borrowers’ financial histories, such as how pending transactions affect account holders’ available capital by “aggregating the [data] aggregators.” . Taking the Friction out of Lending. Lenders are looking to lend money because that’s how they make money,” Evans said.

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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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Reports of Small Business Lending’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated

Celent Banking

In the FinTech space, much of the focus is on consumer-oriented solutions like Mint for financial management, Venmo for P2P payments, and Prosper for social lending. Online small business lending by direct credit providers has especially taken off. Morgan Stanley reports that US small business direct lending grew to around $7.5B

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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. In 2011, Buffett made a $10 billion investment in the company in support of then-new CEO Ginni Rometty’s turnaround plans.

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