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Financial Services Platform SoFi Plans IPO Via SPAC

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Founded in 2011, SoFi has worked to leverage lending after the 2008 financial crisis, focusing on student loan refinancing. SoFi’s technology platform Galileo , which it acquired in April, has helped position the startup at the nexus of the digital transformation in banking and financial services.

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CFPB announces senior leadership changes

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Martinez joined the Bureau in 2011 to help lead the implementation team and has since served as Senior Advisor for Supervision, Enforcement and Fair Lending, Associate Director for External Affairs, and Assistant Director for the Office of Community Affairs. Erie Meyer will serve as Chief Technologist. Most recently, Ms.

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

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The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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GlobalOnePay Integrates Card Payment Capabilities Into InvoiceASAP

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Pivotal Payments unit GlobalOnePay is partnering with InvoiceASAP to lend invoice-to-pay solutions to joint clients. “These innovations remove a crucial barrier to entry for SMBs to accept digital payments,” the companies noted in their news announcement, adding that the tool is open to U.S. and Canadian businesses. .

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Fast EMV, Mobile Starbucks And Under-Fire Payday Lending

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Visa is determined to make EMV faster, Starbucks wants to make getting that cuppa joe faster, too, and is crushing it with mobile order ahead and the CFPB might be moving closer to having a fast exodus of the payday lending business once its rules drop. The CFPB’s Latest Round Of Payday Lending Complaints. EMV’s Second Phase.

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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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Amex Updates Blue Cash Card To Reflect Millennials’ Spending

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“Since we launched the card in 2011, our cardmembers’ buying habits have evolved, which is why we’re evolving the card, too,” said Kunal Madhok, vice president of U.S. consumer lending and acquisition at American Express. American Express said the Blue Cash Preferred Card will still offer 6 percent cash back in U.S. gas stations.