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JULY 27, 2018

watchdog in charge of investor oversight proposed tough new regulations regarding peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms, in a bid to help consumers wade through the new landscape, according to a report by Reuters. The proposed rule changes come in the wake of a 2016 study of regulations that govern the sector, which dates back to 2014.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

In its monthly Small Business Lending Index, released Tuesday (Sept. When you combine a strong economy, healthy retail demand and the willingness of small business owners to reinvest their savings from tax cuts, it creates a positive atmosphere for small business lending ,” said Rohit Arora, Biz2Credit CEO, in a statement.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2020

The result of the ruling could lead to more activity in the French bitcoin market. After Paymium loaned BitSpread 1,000 Bitcoin in 2014, a dispute erupted sometime before 2018. During 2014-18, BitSpread opened an account on Paymium. This ruling could encourage more activity in the French Bitcoin market.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2016

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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MARCH 7, 2019

And generally speaking, central banks seek to boost bank lending if they see, or foresee, a bit of clogged system in hand, where capital flows are needed to sustain economic growth, to keep companies healthy, so that they in turn can continue to keep workers on payroll. Growth rates for the economy, the ECB said, are likely to be an anemic 1.1

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Robocash Group, a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform, aims to raise $5 million in the next half-year from investors in Europe who want to invest in Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore, according to reports. P2P lending is becoming increasingly popular in Asia, exceeding some traditional European economies. billion two years later.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

When OnDeck first went public in 2014, around the same time that fellow alternative lender Lending Club did, it signaled the possibility of a new era of small business finance. But the company, at the time, admitted disappointing results from a marketing campaign, as well as the challenge of an increasingly saturated alt-lending scene.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

The last 12 months have undoubtedly been a difficult period for marketplace lending pioneer Lending Club. But the silver lining is that banks appear to be coming back to the Lending Club platform as investors in loan packages. per cent in 2014. Will it be enough to get Lending Club back on course?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Lending Club has had a tough year. In early May, news broke that Lending Club had played fast and loose with its documents and disclosures, including the fact that then-CEO Renaud Laplanche had failed to disclose a personal stake in a firm Lending Club had an investment relationship with. The revelations were shocking.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Swedish peer-to-peer (P2P) lending startup Lendify has secured $115 million in funding from Insight Investment, according to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday (Oct. Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Sunden-Cullberg said the funding will also help the 2014 startup take control of the consumer loan market. .

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

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.” He was far from alone.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Moody’s is moving a bit closer to the world of small business lending. Finagraph’s technologies will become integrated into Moody’s Analytics Lending Cloud software and risk models, the firm added. “We 25) that it reached a deal to acquire a share of Finagraph. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

On the face of it, China’s announcement that it would open its financial markets to increased ownership by foreign companies seems a sea change. Or to put it another way, with valuations stretched across bourses and asset classes outside China, wouldn’t it follow that there would be a rush into this new open market?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2017

-based startup company that operates an online lending platform, has received an investment of £40 million from British Business Bank, the state-owned bank, but the money comes with strings. According to a report , Funding Circle has to use the funds to lend to small businesses.

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Bobsguide

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

William Wagner, CMO/Vice President of Marketing, Cloud Lending Solutions. Online lenders have been disrupting the lending ecosystem by combining innovation with advanced financial technology to improve borrower experience, address underserved markets, and reduce operating costs. In 2014, the US.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

LendingClub provides personal lending online, and it wants access to funding that is more stable and not as expensive. LendingClub was part of a wave of early FinTech firms that was geared toward marketplace lending, while others matched borrowers with lenders. It had a huge initial public offering (IPO) in 2014, with an $8.5

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

It feels like 2014 again with the ongoing popularity of alternative lending startups. Earlier this week, reports emerged that some alternative lending and industry professionals are beginning to heighten their anxieties about incoming regulation, particularly as some ponder whether the U.S. Alternative Lending.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2016

Post-financial crisis, amid economic recovery, financial institutions across the EU have been calling for a cut in capital charges if they are to ramp up their lending, especially to SMEs. The latest figures show levels of bank lending to large corporates has recovered back to pre-crisis levels. Apparently, it hasn’t.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Ant, spun off from Alibaba in 2014, was set to list on the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges in November until regulators stepped in and suddenly pulled the plug. . Chinese financial regulators called Ma and his leadership team to answer questions on the eve of the company’s stock market debut.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

Capital One logged stronger than expected results when it posted its earnings yesterday — the growth was driven largely by rising interest rates and an uptick in its largest lending categories, cars and cards. The competitive marketplace remains intense, but generally rational. By The Numbers . billion from a year earlier.

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BankUnderground

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Emerging markets (EMs) have become more exposed to the global financial cycle in recent years. Negative liquidity shocks on the other hand constitute a tightening of financial conditions, reducing lending and real investment ( Bruno and Shin (2015) and Avdjiev et al (2018) ). Aakriti Mathur and Shekhar Hari Kumar.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

When Dutch entrepreneur Teun van den Dries started GeoPhy , an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven service that performs real estate valuations, there was nothing like it on the market. That led him to realize the potential market for his company, which he started in 2014. On Thursday (Jan.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 3, 2016

The CFPB has issued a report covering its fair lending activities during 2015. The report states that in 2015, CFPB fair lending supervisory and public enforcement actions required institutions to provide approximately $108 million in remediation. Much of the information contained in the report was the subject of previous blog posts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In 2014, then-CFO John Shrewsberry told investors at a conference that the bank was looking to add to its private-label credit card business. Selling the private-label credit card unit would be a business reversal for the financial services group. Debit card POS purchase volume hit $102.9 billion in the third quarter, up 11.1

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Western Alliance Bancorporation (NYSE: WAL) Western Alliance, through its subsidiary Western Alliance Bank, provides comprehensive business banking and related financial services, operating full service banking divisions in local markets as Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank.

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Abrigo

MAY 11, 2015

Demand for operating loans could remain elevated as futures markets for fall crops show prices are expected to remain low due to the possibility of another record harvest,” the report said. Loan repayment rates were “slightly weaker” in the fourth quarter of 2014, based on call report data cited in the credit analysis.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Alternative lending has been popular among venture capitalists, but France may not come to mind when one considers the top alt-fin markets of the world. The French alternative lending startup announced a $2.8 Unilend may help to change that. It marks NewAlpha’s third FinTech investment from its fund launched in Nov.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 11, 2016

American Express today dispelled market rumors that it would expand its OptBlue program. The program, launched in May 2014, allows merchants who charge less than $1 million a year through American Express, to use one of 18 merchant processors to secure a lower discount rate. Market participants tell Bank Innovation Read More.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

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. The executive noted that investors are looking at the “viability of the overall lending model” and what effect it will have on the weaker players.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 8, 2015

The annual LendIt conference was held last month at Times Square in New York City and GonzoLender descended boldly on the scene to evaluate the mysterious underbelly of digital lending. The lending attack on community banks and credit unions has been waged. LENDING VERTICALS. peer-to-peer or Marketplace) and lending vertical.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 28, 2022

Develop better ag lending workflows before demand picks up. A better ag lending process makes applying smoother for borrowers and can allow efficient ag loan growth without adding a lot of staff. Takeaway 1 Now is the time to plant the seeds for harvesting growth in the ag loan portfolio by creating a better ag lending process.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

payday lending startup Wonga has come to the end of the road, having filed for administration (similar in concept to bankruptcy in the U.S.) According to the Financial Times , complaints against Wonga’s lending practices, logged with regulators, were up 80 percent since that emergency injection. in the closing days of last week.

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

Here are critical facts to know about some of the most popular BNPL service platforms: Afterpay: Afterpay was founded in Australia in 2014 but was acquired by fintech Square earlier this year. When deciding whether to use a BNPL service for a purchase, it is essential to read the fine print.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

It marked the third time that Ant had a quarterly loss since its unit’s result was disclosed by Alibaba in the early part of 2014. The WSJ quoted Alibaba, saying it “stepped up its investment to acquire more users and capture growth opportunities of the offline payment market,” which hurt results. It posted 9.18

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Consumer, enterprise and SMB lending all ground to a near halt and underwriters across the spectrum struggled to regain equilibrium after a crisis in mortgage underwriting bloomed into a plague that destabilized the entire global economic system. The rising tide, it seemed, was lifting all boats. topped the number of ones that closed.

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MARCH 22, 2019

The latter firm had been one of the investors in the original $1 million seed round raised by Thinknum in 2014. The money raised will help Thinknum expand its business, said the publication, and to “help educate the market on the power and uses of alternative data.”

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 26, 2014

At best, 2014 has been an uneven year for home buyers. Utilizing the Bank Information platform, Sageworks recently released a ranking of the top mortgage lending credit unions in the U.S. In a lending segment once cornered by banks, credit unions are making an impact for those looking to purchase their own home.

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