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JANUARY 10, 2019

Alternative small business (SMB) lending platform CAN Capital announced on Wednesday (Jan. CAN Capital added Siciliano from commercial financing company Marlin Business Services , where he served in a variety of roles, including CEO and chief operating officer. 9) that Edward J.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 11, 2020

It was into this world that the much celebrated digital lending fintech OnDeck recently sold to Enova for $90 million, a virtual fire sale at way under 1X OnDeck’s revenue. They primarily support – don’t compete with – federally insured bank lending. or 26X revenue but quickly doubled in the market. mortgage market.

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JULY 19, 2016

Lending Club, which has been struggling to recover from loan errors and the departure of its Chief Executive (among other issues), has named Patrick Dunne, a veteran of BlackRock, as its new chief capital officer. Dunne is well known in financial circles and his appointment is seen as a boon to the beleaguered Lending Club.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed members to its newly-formed Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee as it works to support small business access to capital. The SEC’s new advocate for small business capital formation, Martha Legg Miller, and 15 other members are also a part of the team, reports said.

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MARCH 21, 2019

Direct Lending Investments ’ founder and CEO Brendan Ross has resigned while his company is the focus of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In a separate letter, the company also shared that another borrower had defaulted on a loan that accounted for about a quarter of its capital.

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JUNE 10, 2019

The Financial Stability Board says Basel III rules have not led to a squeeze of the small business bank lending market, according to reports on Friday (June 7). The FSB announced Friday the findings of its analysis of Basel III regulations on the small business lending space.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

One area of impact is small business finance and lending, with small businesses and lenders seeing a slowdown in demand. Small business lending platform Funding Circle commented on this effect in its latest earnings data, noting that there has been “some deterioration” in its higher-risk small business loan bands in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

30) said a lack of regulation in the online SMB lending arena is raising concerns over sky-high fees and interest rates, sparking a bigger conversation about expanding borrower protections beyond consumers. Top players in the industry, including PayPal and Amazon , have promoted borrower trust in the online lending business model for SMBs.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Mobile payments company Square grew its gross payment volume 34% over last year, and its loans through Square Capital were up twice that — 68%. billion in payments in the fourth quarter of 2016, compared with $10.2 The San Francisco-based company processed $13.7 billion in the same quarter last year. Read More.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In the 2015 Growth Strategy Survey by Bank Director , the most commonly cited areas for growth were Commercial Real Estate Lending, C&I loans, SBA loans, and Construction loans. which means their capital needs fluctuate. businesses are sole proprietorships or small businesses. Small businesses in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

An alternative lending conglomerate based in the U.K. Its units include Distribution Finance Capital, Satago and Oxygen Finance, while it also owns a minority stake in peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Zopa. Many borrowers are neglected by banks and still face expensive funding and capital. reports noted.

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BankUnderground

JULY 20, 2022

In a recent paper we explore the effect on bank lending by combining data on exposure to negative rates with banks’ balance sheets, the Spanish credit register and firms’ balance sheets. This effect was especially strong for undercapitalised banks and lending to risky firms. Why might negative rates work differently?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

can get loan approvals in minutes through its Worldpay Working Capital solution, which initially rolled out in March 2019. Working Capital makes it faster and easier for businesses to get access to the cash they need while allowing them to pay the funds as a percentage of their daily card transactions.”. FIS merchants in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Big banks saw tax rates fall to an average of below 19 percent — that compares to the 28 percent they paid in 2016, reports noted. Bloomberg noted that it used 2016 tax rates to compare what banks paid last year, due to the accounting adjustments that financial institutions (FIs) applied in 2017 as a result of tax reform taking effect.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

The alternative lending industry continues to scoff at doubters, and the latest B2B venture capital roundup suggests confidence is growing in the space — and not just in the U.S., Last month was a booming time for alternative lending when top names, like BlueVine, scored hefty sums. Alt-Lending. Funding Circle.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 8, 2017

Fintech venture capitals cooled on lending startups in 2016, and turned their attention to two new budding areas — insurtech and regtech, which even made it into the budget speech of UK chancellor George Osborne last year.

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JUNE 6, 2018

Alternative lending platform BlueVine has announced its latest investment to the tune of $60 million. A press release issued by the company said Menlo Ventures led the Series E equity funding round for BlueVine, which also saw backing from SVB Capital and other investors.

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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.”. 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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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. It’s being titled TLTO III, said the news site.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

educated entrepreneurs met while working abroad at Renaissance Capital and Deutsche Bank. such as Zopa and Lending Club, they saw an opportunity in emerging markets that had been ignored by the big banks, such as Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan. Observing the rise of disruptive companies in Europe and the U.S.,

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

Data is expected to show slower economic growth across Canada for the second half of 2017 and, along with it, a slowdown in small- and medium-sized business (SMB) lending, according to new research from small business credit data and analysis firm PayNet. In its “Small Business Lending Index,” released Tuesday (Dec.

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AUGUST 2, 2016

Small businesses will be crucial to the expansion of the P2P lending market across the globe, analysts from Technavio said. 1) said micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) lending will help fuel growth in the global peer-to-peer lending space between 2016 and 2020. ”

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

With the added investment, the lending company would be valued at $1.5 billion – which would be around double its valuation in April of 2016, when it had its latest round of fundraising. Current investors – including Founders Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures and Spark Capital – will take part in the investment round.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 30, 2016

Last week, I participated in a Finextra webinar on the topic of “Connected Credit and Compliance for Lending Growth” with panelists from ING, Vertus Partners, Misys and Credits Vision. Cost of compliance. Changing client expectations. Competition from new entrants.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Necessity is the mother of invention. Behind the Numbers .

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APRIL 24, 2018

Marketplace lending platforms – Lending Club, OnDeck, Prosper and the like – have inarguably and fundamentally altered the geography of the lending landscape. The lending model has fundamentally changed,” Vallée told Harvard Business School Weekly. Now decisions are increasingly based on hard information.

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JULY 25, 2018

Cabot Square Capital, a U.K. With a specialty in car loans, 321 Crédit has been a Cabot Square Capital company since 2014. With a specialty in car loans, 321 Crédit has been a Cabot Square Capital company since 2014. The move on the part of Cabot Square Capital comes at a time when big banks have been pulling back from the $1.2

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AUGUST 1, 2016

Online lending was all the rage even a few months ago, but funding going toward online lending platforms is on the decline. equity investments going toward online lending companies fell 44 percent in the first half of 2016 to $2.1 In June, Lending Club appointed interim CEO Scott Sanborn to the permanent head.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Small business lending activity across the globe is in flux. China saw a whopping 17 percent increase in small business lending in Q1, while U.S. We break down the latest on SME lending in these key markets. They’re not putting a lot of new capital to work. According to LDF, the findings are “disturbing.”. A dip of 1.1

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Alternative lending was born from a lack of big bank financing for small businesses in the wake of the financial crisis. The latest report of its Small Business Lending Index , released on Tuesday (Aug. 9), revealed that big banks — those with more than $10 billion in assets — reduced their small business lending volumes in July 2016.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 15, 2016

Bank Innovation Israel 2016 registration has officially opened today. The only Western fintech event in Startup Nation, the 2016 Bank Innovation Israel will take place 1-3 November at the Dan Tel Aviv. The event is presented by Bank Innovation, one of the world’s leading fintech blogs.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

We’re also a pure-play technology company, designed to support banks [that] want to offer lending products, but … either can’t or won’t dedicate hundreds of millions to building the capacity,” he said. Avant launched its first bank partnership with Alabama-based Regions Bank in 2016, using its SaaS product.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Similar to small businesses, said Albert Periu , middle-market firms struggle to not only gain the capital they need from traditional financiers; they’re also burdened by paper-based manual processes in the application and loan management process. There weren’t many FinTech or digital solutions for this segment.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 5, 2017

The recent troubles of Home Capital, a Canadian alternative lender, once again raises questions about the future of the industry. The latest crisis is timely, as this month marks the one-year anniversary of the surprise firing of Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

About a third of SMBs recently told Capital One they’re currently in a better financial position than they were a year ago, for instance. There’s been a big rebound in lending to big businesses, but there’s been a very small recovery in lending to small businesses,” said Rebel Cole, Ph.D.,

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MAY 10, 2018

PayPal has released new data regarding the volume of financing placed with small business borrowers via the PayPal Working Capital solution. Reports in IBS Intelligence on Wednesday (May 9) said PayPal Working Capital has provided U.K. That compares with its 116 percent year-over-year volume increase between 2016 and 2017.

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JULY 22, 2016

It feels like 2014 again with the ongoing popularity of alternative lending startups. It’s even more surprising given that 2016 could be the year that regulation begins to really kick in for these lenders — in the U.S., Alternative Lending. But the biggest funding round wasn’t in alternative finance. MarketInvoice.

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