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Capital Float On The Path To Video-Based KYC Implementation

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Developing a quick, seamless and secure onboarding process for financial institutions (FIs), lending startups and other financial services providers has long posed its trials. Capital Float had provided 500,000 clients with $1.2 Capital Float had provided 500,000 clients with $1.2

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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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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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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.”

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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.”. Lending Club’s model does not need bank branches on each street corner, and it can turn around in minutes and hours, not days. “I So what went so right for LendingClub two years ago today at its IPO — and then so wrong?

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Building A Better Lending Model To Serve SMBs Who Served

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Veterans often find it extremely difficult to secure bank funding, despite the fact that a myriad of programs exist to encourage entrepreneurship among those who have left the military in good standing. That rate, he noted, is based on more than mutual soldier loyalty, as StreetShares has other lending requirements. What’s Next.

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Venture Capitalists Wary Of Online Lenders

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BlueVine, which is an online lender that is focused on the small business market, raised funding last year and has secured a total of $188 million in venture capital funding since 2013. But Lending Club ran into trouble with compliance requirements, resulting in the resignation of CEO Renaud Laplanche.

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