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Kabbage Acquires Lending Data Provider Orchard Platform Markets

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Small business lending platform Kabbage is making plans to acquire Orchard Platform Markets, a provider of lending data and services. Founded in 2013, New York-based Orchard initially provided Wall Street firms with data on the marketplace lending sector. Both companies declined to comment. billion.

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The New Lending Fintech Bonanza

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OnDeck’s fire sale aside, recent deals at nCino, Black Knight and Ellie Mae are a shot in the arm to a market in need of some good news. 2020 is the wildest downward ride in the market since 1929, which, one would think, is taking its toll on the fintech ecosystem serving banks and credit unions.

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GAO: FinTech Firms, FIs Seek Alternative Data Clarity In Lending

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Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that financial regulators should look more closely at the role of non-bank tech companies in the small business (SMB) lending and consumer lending markets. Such alternative data, said the GAO, could pose risk to such lending decisions. Sandboxes, Gathering Steam.

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Why Lowering SMBs’ Barriers To The Bond Market Can Boost Investors, Too

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For small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in need of capital, bank loans are undoubtedly the first place they look. The bond market, on the other hand, isn’t the most likely of places for an entrepreneur to seek financing. Several years ago, however, SMBs began to show interest in the bond market, too.

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Lending Club’s Terrible Twos

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Two years ago today, Lending Club was ringing the bell on an IPO that one early investor called “a no-brainer.”. The consumer credit market has huge potential — trillions and trillions of dollars — and I wanted to ride that winner. And disrupt Lending Club did, with its marketplace lending model, scores of imitators in the U.S.

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Lending Club’s Bombshell And Alt-Lending Aftershocks

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Renaud Laplanche , Former CEO of Lending Club, in a 2013 interview. Those were the good old days of Lending Club, a Silicon Valley darling that was the next big thing in lending. Lending Club was the poster child of that alt lending movement. I want to create something new and innovative.” The problem?

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

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Gentle Monster Background Founded in 2011 by Kim, Gentle Monster initially struggled to break through against large brands like Luxottica which controls an estimated 30% of the US market, and is behind almost every single designer eyeglass brand you can think of, including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Armani, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Prada and many more.