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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. The challenges are not isolated to the U.S.,

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JANUARY 10, 2020

has announced a takeover that will position the company to strengthen its financing operations in the middle market. 10) said Aflac Global Investments has reached an agreement to acquire a minority stake in Varagon Capital Partners, a direct lender to mid-market companies. A report in Zacks Equity Research Friday (Jan.

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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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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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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Citi has been appointed by Victory Capital to provide fund administration, custody, ETF services and securities lending for its most recent acquisition. This new business further grows Citi’s existing relationship with Victory Capital. With more than $21.7 With more than $21.7 Asia and Latin America.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

An alternative lending conglomerate based in the U.K. The firm is the holding company for an array of FinTech companies operating in supply chain finance, invoice finance and the dynamic discounting market. The companies were grouped together between 2014 and 2017 after investments and acquisitions by Arrowgrass Master Fund Ltd.,

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MAY 11, 2020

Mumbai-based Tata Capital , a division of Tata Group, is rolling out a mobile app to make it easier for its business loan customers to manage their accounts. Tata Capital is deeply invested in providing easy access of credit to merchants and dealers through its Channel Finance and Term Loan products.

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APRIL 18, 2019

The Federal Reserve has released new data on small businesses’ appetite for capital, and it appears that financing demand is on the rise. Compared to 2017 figures, small businesses have increased their demand for capital. Nearly one-third sought financing online in 2018, an increase from 24 percent in 2017.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

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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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Citi has been appointed by Victory Capital to provide fund administration, custody, ETF services and securities lending for its most recent acquisition. This new business further grows Citi’s existing relationship with Victory Capital. With more than $21.7 With more than $21.7 Asia and Latin America.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

Managing cash flow can be tricky work when one is new to the market or looking to expand because cash is in short supply. CircleUp entered the market in 2012 as a data driven variation on venture capital (VC) funding to solve for part of that problem in retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms. The first is focus.

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JUNE 6, 2019

When it comes to small business (SMB) lending, the top two contenders for business owners are banks and alternative financiers or online marketplaces. Credit unions (CUs), meanwhile, are rarely the first point of contact for small businesses in need of capital or other financial services, according to a recent Federal Reserve report.

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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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Bobsguide

JULY 7, 2022

Lake Mary, FL, US – June 30, 2022 – Finastra today unveiled its embedded consumer lending solution, enabling access to traditional regulated lending options for consumers at point-of-sale (POS). Finastra Embedded Consumer Lending product brochure. Finastra Banking as a Service: Outlook 2022 | Paving the way for embedded finance.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has, as finews.asia reported this past week, amended its credit risk management guidelines in a way that seeks to boost the embrace of analytics when lending to smaller firms. billion as of June 30 of this year and as measured since the August 2017 launch. Open Banking Partnerships – Focus On Romania.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Plus, there is new evidence that the middle-market business community fared particularly well in the first quarter. percent drop in revenue among micro-enterprises dims the overall sentiment among SMBs, and presents a stark contrast to the mid-market’s performance for Q1. Beyond the U.S., percent during the first quarter.

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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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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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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.

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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 Geru bonds, which the company issued in December of 2017, have a four-year maturity and pay about 11.2 percent each year, noted the report.

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MAY 8, 2017

The last 12 months have undoubtedly been a difficult period for marketplace lending pioneer Lending Club. Net revenue in the first quarter of 2017 was $124.5 But the silver lining is that banks appear to be coming back to the Lending Club platform as investors in loan packages. So how did that acceleration shake out?

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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. We break down the latest on SME lending in these key markets. A dip of 1.1

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

For small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in need of capital, bank loans are undoubtedly the first place they look. The bond market, on the other hand, isn’t the most likely of places for an entrepreneur to seek financing. Several years ago, however, SMBs began to show interest in the bond market, too.

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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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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the year between Q2 2017 and Q2 2018, sub-prime consumer loan originations grew 28 percent between Q2 2017 and Q2 2018 across the categories of auto loans, mortgage loans and credit cards. This reverses the previous year’s trend, between 2016 and 2017, when sub-prime loan originations across categories fell by 7.1

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

EXCLUSIVE—Investors don’t need to wait for Initial Coin Offerings to reach their full potential: this way of raising capital is already redefining how businesses in certain markets can operate, Taynaah Reis, CEO for cooperative banking system company Moeda told Bank Innovation.

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JULY 10, 2018

million — already ahead of 2017’s full-year take of $167.7 million and four times the amount raised in the first six months of 2017. The two biggest players in the FinTech startup have been Cellulant — a digital payments operation currently up and online in 11 African countries — and the online micro-lending startup Branch.

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JUNE 13, 2018

Holdaway, who has an MBA from Harvard Business School, joins Barclays after 15 years at Capital One , where he held a variety of senior leadership roles in new business initiatives, internet acquisitions and partnership finance. into the future as we continue to leverage our global capabilities and deepen our presence in the market.”

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation 2017. Bank Innovation 2017, March 6-7 in San Jose, Calif., Adam Carson, managing director, global technology strategy & partnerships at JPMorgan Chase & Co., will feature dozens of speakers on investing in innovation, chatbots, blockchain and more.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

B2B startups saw a little bit of everything this week when it came to venture capital. million funding round over the weekend, with the corporate expense management company seeing funding from Sabadell Venture Capital, Venturecap, Bankinter, Telegraph Hill Capital and Kibo Ventures. Alternative Lending.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Fiserv CEO Jeff Yabuki has joined the speaker faculty of Bank Innovation 2017, taking place March 6-7 in San Jose. Yabuki joined Fiserv in 2005. Under his leadership, the company has grown revenue to exceed $5 billion annually, and serves more than 13,000 institutional clients. Fiserv also supports this site’s Read More.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. One word can summarize this action-packed banking year, GonzoBankers – tiring. Payments chaos.

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APRIL 22, 2019

Might banks be making inroads into the hearts and minds of smaller firms as they seek out capital – as some SMBs cite at least some dissatisfaction with non-banking lending conduits? Drilling down a bit further, about one third sought financing from online lenders in 2018, up from 24 percent in 2017.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Third quarter venture capital fundings continued to fall in the third quarter, but there’s a hint of optimism as the year comes to an end and the market for initial public offerings thaws. According to data from KPMG Enterprise and CB Insights, global financings fell 14% in the third quarter from Read More.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

The small business loan market is oversaturated, she argued, creating a “FinTech credit bubble” that first showed signs of deflating as investors pulled out of some players like CAN Capital and LendingClub in 2016. The market is ripe for consolidation and beneficial partnerships,” Grealish wrote. Alternative Lending.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in recent years thanks to digital and mobile technology, along with online marketplace models. So-called peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has certainly faced challenges in certain markets. Despite lending £6.7

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JULY 16, 2020

Blockchain initiative Teller has notched $1 million in a Framework Ventures-led seed capital to create a decentralized finance (DeFi) credit risk tool, according to an announcement. During a period that spanned from 2017 to this year, the individual allegedly had investors move $3.5 million in ether, about $1.1

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