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

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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. On the upside, researchers found small businesses’ demand for loans is at its highest level since 2012. For banks, the reason often comes down to profits.

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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. Sources told Reuters that Grab is looking to take advantage of the red-hot IPO market in the U.S. If the company chooses to proceed, the IPO could be the largest market debut ever made by a Southeast Asian company on a foreign exchange.

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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. And so, in 2012, with only a few hundred thousand of their own dollars to get up and running, ID Finance launched in one of those underserved markets — their home market of Russia.

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Can Data Driven Lending Displace VC Funding For Some Firms?

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Managing cash flow can be tricky work when one is new to the market or looking to expand because cash is in short supply. 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. 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. Avant’s consumer-facing product is devised as a digital alternative to that market.

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SoftBank Leads Funding For Brazilian Lender Creditas

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Japanese company SoftBank is leading a $231 million funding round for a Brazilian lending startup called Creditas, in a bid to shake up competition in the traditional financial market, according to a report by Reuters. . Creditas was started in 2012 by Sergio Furio, a Spanish former consultant and now the company’s chief executive.

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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. Should we be interpreting the desire of lots of private sub-scale companies to *sell* as a signal about the market environment and the quality of these companies? Let’s narrow down the story to Fintech, using data from Spactrack.

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