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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Alternative lending was the golden child among investors around 2015, but lately, the industry seems to have fallen out of favor thanks to regulatory uncertainty and questions over the viability of some business models. Alternative Lending. This week alone saw two examples of those concerns in action: One U.S. lawmaker, Rep.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Not one of the four alternative lending startups that secured investments this week were from the U.S. Alternative Lending. Late last week, South Africa’s LulaLend brought some rare attention to the nation’s alternative lending space. There’s talk that alternative finance is dead. Well, in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Taking a page from Goldman Sachs’ book, Morgan Stanley is beginning to lend to FinTech startups in Brazil as it seeks more of a return on its investments. The company is also reportedly in talks with international investors about raising $50 million via an equity round that QMS Capital is handling.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2017

unit is offering an update on the progress made by PayPal Working Capital. The company revealed Monday (June 19) that it has facilitated more than $500 million (£400 million) in working capital to U.K. We saw an opportunity for us to help and set about making PayPal Working Capital a reality.”. PayPal U.K.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We continue to evaluate capital options and are excited about our industry position,” CEO Anthony Hsieh told Bloomberg. In 2015, LoanDepot announced on its blog that it intended to become a public company and filed Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “The

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The 2019 Canadian fintech market map. The startups selected for inclusion in the market map below are all Canada-headquartered, VC-backed fintech companies that have at least US $1M in equity funding, and have obtained equity funding since the start of 2015. Navigating the Canadian fintech market map. Capital markets.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Alternative lender Ultimate Finance is exiting the unsecured lending market in response to “market conditions,” according to the company. market for its decision, which will take effect immediately as it focuses on other loan products, including asset finance and invoice finance for small and medium-sized businesses. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2017

Alternative lending has shifted from a competitor of traditional FIs to a collaborator, often lending a digital hand to banks in need of upgrading their systems to provide faster, more agile financing to SMEs. s Big Four banks, with alt lending firms and P2P lenders acting as key vessels for BBB funding. businesses.”.

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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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Abrigo

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Learn how credit unions can manage capital levels amid credit stress. Even as news headlines announce that “the sky is falling,” many Abrigo clients are relaying they can count only six or seven charge-offs since 2015 or so, he added. However, institutions in recent quarters are seeing some indicators of weakening asset quality.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2016

By the end of Friday – $2 trillion was gone from the world markets. As more loans that expected went bad in the fall of 2015, investor/loan buyers started backing away – making it harder to attract desirable borrowers, making it harder to attract investor/lenders. Too be fully compliant in the U.K. freedom of motion.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 14, 2022

You might also like this whitepaper, "Stress Testing: Managing Capital Levels and Credit Risk." So how can banks help customers keep up in uncertain markets? Read the whitepaper, "Stress Testing: Managing Capital Levels and Credit Risk.". Lending & Credit Risk. Lending & Credit Risk. Construction Lending.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

IDG, Breyer Capital and General Catalyst Partners were also participants. Messaging and payments, P2P lending and novel forms of saving and investment, powered by the internet and software, are accelerating at an incredible pace in China, outpacing the West,” Circle noted in a blog post announcing the news.

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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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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

The tallies are in: Innovate Finance has calculated the state of investment in FinTech for 2015, and we have the numbers. Innovate Finance released The 2015 FinTech Investment Landscape this month, a report that offers a snapshot at how investors are placing their money among financial innovators. It amounted to about $12.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

But a new report from Citi found that, while China may be the market to watch for FinTech investments, the U.S. According to “Digital Disruption — Revisited: What FinTech VC Investments Tells Us About A Changing Industry,” Citi expects an influx in venture capital across the FinTech startup scape. by 38 percent, during that same time.

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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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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

The biggest individual cut will be a Utah office dedicated to lending for medical procedures, but 14 percent of Prosper’s San Francisco- and Phoenix-based workforce is also on its way out the door. In 2015, Prosper’s staff grew to 619 employees. Loan originations more than doubled between 2006 and 2015 from $2.4

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

6) a new round of equity financing led by new investors, including Pritzker family business interests advised by The Pritzker Organization and DNS Capital. The capital raise, which follows the close of a minority equity financing round led by Goldman Sachs in Oct. The round also included existing investors.

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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. It wasn’t until late 2015 that the number of small businesses opened in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

Davies is leaving Revolut to take over the Allica Bank, which specializes in lending to businesses, according to the FT. small and medium-sized business market, and the chance to lead a newly-licensed bank that can be part of the solution is a great opportunity.” The investor was TSG Capital Partners, according to TechCrunch.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

PYMNTS also explores the venture capital and lending spaces as professional investors make some changes and as businesses look to invest in themselves. However, total investment in these startups — venture capital, in addition to angel, hedge fund and mutual fund investment and more — topped $17.8 and Europe dominated in 2015.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

In recent years, banks have even seen greater competition in the lending market from new FinTech players that can quickly approve loan applications and distribute funds to lenders. Some of the more prominent names in the marketplaces lending space include OnDeck, Kabbage and Orion First.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

million shares of its common stock, and private equity backer Parthenon Capital Partners is selling 5.59 We chose to enter the market at a time when few were willing to take the chance, and even fewer were succeeding. The company is offering 9.41 million of its shares, for a combined 15 million shares.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

Cuomo on June 1, 2017, required DFS to study online lending in New York State and submit a report of its findings. Our review shows that while online lending has grown in recent years, our banking industry still supports the overwhelming majority of lending in New York while being subject to strong safeguards and oversight.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

With the recent tightening of the capital markets, we are refocusing on our core consumer loans business,” he said. billion | Prosper’s valuation as of its last funding run in 2015, when it raised $165 million from Credit Suisse Group AG , J.P. billion Prosper loaned out in Q4 2015. Morgan Chase & Co.,

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Following the recent financial crisis, the Basel Committee of Banking Supervision (BCBS) set out to “strengthen global capital and liquidity rules with the goal of promoting a more resilient banking sector.” The three pillars include maintaining minimum capital requirements, a supervisory review process and market discipline.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2018

million with B2B startups this past week, and while investment targets were diverse (including B2B eCommerce and small business lending), the bulk of the funding landed at companies focused on enhancing businesses’ ability to assess their performance. focus on product development, and enhance sales and marketing efforts.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2017

12), the company said California-based venture capital firm Accel Partners led the funding round, with participation from Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures, and Temasek Holdings. “It’s probably a combination of things,” Cormac Leech, a principal at private-equity firm Victory Park Capital Advisors, told Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Venture capital has hit a plateau, according to some analysts. “After $100M+ checks flowed freely to VC-backed companies through much of 2015, the mega-round trend has settled into a lower range through 2016,” concluded KPMG and CB Insights in their Q3 2016 venture capital report.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

According to Forbes, the past few years has seen an increase in bad loans that has caused traditional lenders to be more cautious in their lending, and that includes the nationalized banks. Existing regulations are not clear on these partnerships because while NBFCs can lend money, they are not allowed to take deposits.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The following is an excerpt from the Sageworks whitepaper "Optimizing Capital: Challenges and Opportunities for Financial Institutions". Yet all financial institutions face internal and external challenges that place demands on personnel, time and – perhaps most importantly – on capital. Speed to market is critical,” Brown says. “An

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Corporate demand for working capital similarly rose, according to some reports. 252 million eInvoices were sent across the EU in 2015 , most of which were B2B or B2G, according to new data from the European E-invoicing Service Providers Association. have also surpassed lending levels seen pre-recession. SMEs in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2018

according to OnDeck Capital Chief Executive Noah Breslow. Reports in The Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday (April 18) said the executive spoke at the AltFi Australiasia Summit event held in Sydney this week, declaring Australia to be the Asia-Pacific region’s second-largest market for alternative finance. “We

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

After months of strategy adjustments, loan defaults and shifts in market exposure, Funding Circle’s SME Income Fund is set to close, sending shares down for the alternative lending company Friday (April 5). The fund launched in 2015 to finance Funding Circle loans on its marketplaces in the U.S., Germany and Netherlands.

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