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Report: Digital Lender SoFi Eyes IPO Via SPAC

PYMNTS

The company was founded in 2011 and has worked to capitalize on banks' reduced focus on lending after the late 2000s financial crisis, working on refinancing student loans early on and has since also worked on mortgages and personal loans, according to Reuters. It has also begun work in stock trading and cash management accounts.

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How Singapore Is Fueling A ‘Smart Nation’

PYMNTS

Singapore is on a mission to build up a Smart Nation by utilizing innovation and technology to create opportunities and strengthen communities. Between 2011 and 2015, the government allocated $16 billion to help accelerate Singapore’s research, innovation and enterprise landscape. With an estimated population of just 5.47

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Report: Accounting Firms Turn Down Greensill Auditing Role

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A number of large accounting groups have turned down requests to audit Greensill Capital as the SoftBank -backed firm mulls a stock market listing, the Financial Times (FT) reported. The United Kingdom-based organization has become one of the most highly valued private finance firms in the nation as of its 2011 establishment.

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Built In Job Search Tool Gets $22M For Expansion, Development

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Founded in 2011, Built In helps more than 1,800 customers connect with over 1 million technology professionals each month. The company will use the funding to double its headcount at its Chicago headquarters, as well as expand its national footprint over the next 12 months.

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The new competitiveness in corporate payments

Accenture

I am excited to have Tim O’Donnell join our Payments team as a managing director and draw on his insights in developing this blog. Today, we are seeing a slowdown in commercial deposit growth broadly with flat or negative growth in pockets as deposits shift to the national banks. percent between 2017 and 2019, down from 5.1

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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 Perhaps not.

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Banking's Total Return Top 5

Jeff For Banks

capital appreciation and dividends. For comparison purposes, here are last year''s top five, as measured during September, 2011: #1 BofI Holdings, Inc. #2 In 1979, George Gleason, a 25-year-old attorney, purchased controlling interest and assumed active management of the bank as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer.

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