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Can Data Driven Lending Displace VC Funding For Some Firms?

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CircleUp entered the market in 2012 as a data driven variation on venture capital (VC) funding to solve for part of that problem in retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms. CircleUp’s lending platform was founded in 2017 to fill that hole and has underwritten about $300 million in loans since then. The first is focus.

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Avant Brings SaaS Lending Tech To Banks

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Avant is best known among its financial services peers as a FinTech firm, founded to throw automation and an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced underwriting process at the problem of creating accessible, affordable personal loans for consumers. This is the bank’s product backed up by our brand.

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

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Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It’s still going under the stewardship of fintech famous Jim Marous, who modernized the name to Digital Banking Report (and recently opened the archives for free access).

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The United States Of Fintech: The Most Well-Funded Fintech Startup In Each State

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Following our previous mapping of the most well funded startups in each state and most well funded food & beverage startups in each state , we used CB Insights database to identify the most well-funded private fintech startup in each state. FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING. Inked Brands. $ Regent Education.

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Unbundling Bank Of America: How The Traditional Bank Is Being Disrupted

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The pandemic has also accelerated recent trends in banking, especially among the millennial demographic, which tends to favor digital banking and online brands over traditional banks. However, both brands have expanded to additional products, such as Venmo’s credit card and Cash App’s stock investing offering. . SMB lending .

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Google’s Payday Ad Ban Hurts Alphabet-Backed Payday Lender

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Because it is an investor in the online lender LendUp and has been before the company launched in 2012. Google’s announcement showed that it had updated its AdWords policy to effectively ban advertisers from marketing a number of lending products starting July 13.

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Big Banks Steal The B2B VC Show

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Case in point: Soundtrack Your Brand, which raised $11 million last week to provide retail stores with a music soundtrack service — not exactly the showcase for investor support of business FinTech. Since its launch in 2012, the firm said it has facilitated $178 million worth of invoice financing to local SMEs.

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