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FinTech Firms Show Banks The ‘Art Of The Possible’ In SMB Lending

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So, access to capital isn’t just essential for these companies to survive — it’s critical for the economy to thrive. Yet, the small business lending gap remains. In a new report, PayNet and financial research firm Raddon examined the state of small business lending in the U.S.

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Singapore FinTech Grab Mulling US IPO Of Up To $2 Billion

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Singapore-based FinTech Grab is mulling a U.S. Last week, Grab announced that its Grab Financial Group had raised $300 million in a Series A funding round led by Hanwha Asset Management and joined by K3 Ventures , GGV Capital , Arbor Ventures and Flourish Ventures.

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The Russian Connection (To Alt Lending Globally)

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ID Finance Co-Founders Boris Batine and Alexander Dunaev were far from newcomers to the world of finance when they started up their business in 2012. educated entrepreneurs met while working abroad at Renaissance Capital and Deutsche Bank. The vast majority of money going into FinTech is chasing a small number of well-known startups.

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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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How $12 Billion in Fintech SPAC capital is teaching us about the economics of target unicorns

Lex Sokolin

The average size is about $300 million, and quite a few are focusing on Fintech and financial services. Here, for comparison, is similar data on venture capital funds?—?printing Let’s narrow down the story to Fintech, using data from Spactrack. That is a 100% increase in capital looking for quality fintech assets.

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How $12 Billion in Fintech SPAC capital is teaching us about the economics of target unicorns

Lex Sokolin

The average size is about $300 million, and quite a few are focusing on Fintech and financial services. Here, for comparison, is similar data on venture capital funds?—?printing Let’s narrow down the story to Fintech, using data from Spactrack. That is a 100% increase in capital looking for quality fintech assets.

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