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Top News In Payments: JPMorgan Blocks FinTechs From Passwords; Ant, Razer Join Rally For Singapore eBank Licenses

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In today’s top payments news, JPMorgan blocks FinTechs from accessing customers’ passwords, and Ant Financial and Razer throw their hats into the ring for one of Singapore’s five available digital banking licenses. JPMorgan Ups Security By Blocking FinTechs From Passwords. Ant, Razer Join Rally For Singapore eBank Licenses.

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Financial Services Platform SoFi Plans IPO Via SPAC

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billion, with the goal of bringing FinTech businesses to public markets. Founded in 2011, SoFi has worked to leverage lending after the 2008 financial crisis, focusing on student loan refinancing. The deal would give SoFi a post-money valuation in excess of $8.65 The deal is anticipated to provide as much as $2.4

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Marketplace lending. Marketplace Lending.

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

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Online FinTech startup SoFi announced Thursday (Jan. Today, SoFi’s suite of products includes 11 different offerings including a no-fee bank and savings account, debit and credit cards, student loans, mortgages, investments, auto/life/homeowners/renters insurance, as well as lending and planning services for small businesses.

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Dr. Strangelove or: How Fintechs Will Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Regulation

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The guiding ethos of fintech (and really any industry portmanteau ending in ‘tech’) is move fast and break things. The most prominent villain for fintech companies is regulation. And when fintechs and challenger banks aren’t constrained by regulation (as they mostly are in the U.S. Generally this ethos is presented as a virtue.

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Reports of Small Business Lending’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated

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The lack of “just right” solutions for many small business financial problems has been a golden opportunity for FinTech firms. 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.

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Don't Bank. SoFi

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billion in equity capital since its founding in 2011. billion in equity capital, with a market capitalization close to book value. Since 2011, SoFi has funded over $6 billion in loans (through December 15, 2015). SoFi started in 2011, so the tide has not yet gone out on them. By comparison, over 100 year old and $7.7