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Lending Club Underwriting Questioned As Chargeoffs Climb

Bank Innovation

Scandals aside, Lending Club has been doing well in the area that mattered — borrowers were paying back their loans. But a new report from the Wall Street Journal indicates that chargeoff rates at Lending Club are up 38% since 2013. This is troubling because credit card default rates decreased over the Read More.

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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.

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Alibaba Invests in Mobile Lending Startup WeLab

Bank Innovation

WeLab was founded in 2013, and now has over […]. The round included big names like Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, Credit Suisse and World Bank’s International Finance Corporation. This latest round of funding brings WeLab’s total to $425 million.

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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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BIS Sees Boons, Risks As FinTech Credit Gains Traction

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When it comes to FinTech firms and lending, might it be that what we don’t know could hurt us? Beyond that, volume has exploded, with $284 billion extended in 2016 compared to $11 billion in 2013. Broken down a bit, business lending was most prevalent in countries such as Singapore, the Netherlands and Japan.

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

Fintech Labs Insights

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 was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below).

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OCC Puts Small-Dollar Loans Back In The Spotlight

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In 2013, the OCC had discouraged short-term lending by banks with limitations on what could be offered to customers depending on their credit. Regulatory uncertainty forced banks out of this space, leaving families to rely on pawn shops, costly payday lenders or loosely regulated online lending during times of financial stress.

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