PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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. The companies were grouped together between 2014 and 2017 after investments and acquisitions by Arrowgrass Master Fund Ltd.,

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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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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). As our trusted partner of many years, Finastra is the ideal orchestrator as we connect and scale on our embedded finance offering.”.

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PYMNTS

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

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 12, 2017

The marketplace lending industry is far from dead. This was the upshot from a venture capital panel at a recent Bank Innovation event in San Jose. Rather, it’s going through a reboot, which will include improved software, increased focus on regulation, and improved transparency.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Earlier this month, marketplace lending site Biz2Credit released the findings of its most recent small business lending index. CAN Capital, one of the largest and oldest players in alternative lending, has stopped lending and replaced CEO Dan DeMeo,” he reflected in a statement. percent in November.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

16) said Lendingkart will offer its credit risk assessment technology to banks and other alt-lenders starting in 2017. According to Lendingkart Cofounder Harshvardhan Lunia, the company will look to expand its reach in the SME lending market over the next six months by having other banks use its credit risk analytics software.

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Insights on Business

JULY 27, 2017

Against a backdrop of emerging technologies, shifting customer expectations, regulatory changes and evolving business models, Forrester Research lays out the future of financial services in a provocative report entitled “Predictions 2017: Pioneering Financial Providers Will Partner With Fintech To Build Ecosystems”. I think so.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2017

Venture capital funding continued to fall in the third quarter, according to data from KPMG Enterprise and CB Insights. The fintech world has been going through a sort of an IPO freeze recently. The headwinds created by certain fintechs this year (looking at you, LendingClub) didn’t help much either. Global financing Read More.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

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

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

The last 12 months have undoubtedly been a difficult period for marketplace lending pioneer Lending Club. We redeployed resources for growth and invested heavily in our technology platform in the first quarter,” said Scott Sanborn, the company’s president and CEO. Net revenue in the first quarter of 2017 was $124.5

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CB Insights

AUGUST 16, 2021

Upgrade , an online lending platform, has raised $105M in a Series E. The round drew participation from Black River Ventures, Ventura Capital, and Koch Disruptive Technologies. Since its inception in 2017, Upgrade has provided mainstream customers with over $7B in credit through cards and loans. Want the full post?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

Chase Gilbert, CEO of construction FinTech firm Built Technologies , told PYMNTS that this web of intricate connections creates a Catch-22 when it comes to lending: Lenders, which pay out loans incrementally based on progress of a construction project, have to see that progress in order to provide financing.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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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. And disrupt Lending Club did, with its marketplace lending model, scores of imitators in the U.S.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 31, 2019

Financial institutions that want to play in the small business lending sandbox need to bring their digital toys. But how can community banks successfully compete with big banks and fintechs that are spending billions on their digital lending capabilities? Source: DeBanked ) Square Capital lent about $1.6 Technology Utilization.

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PYMNTS

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. Financial technology seems to be leading the startup charge, representing 40 percent of the largest 10 deals of the year so far, collectively worth $100 million. So why the boom?

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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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Bank Innovation

JUNE 8, 2018

Bitcoin mania has died down in the fintech world, and the conversation has shifted to technologies like voice banking, payments, and alternative credit scoring. What is the state of banking innovation today? Each year, we poll the industry to find out. This year, the pressure for banks to innovate is high, as banks no longer […].

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Insights on Business

JULY 27, 2017

Against a backdrop of emerging technologies, shifting customer expectations, regulatory changes and evolving business models, Forrester Research lays out the future of financial services in a provocative report entitled “ Predictions 2017: Pioneering Financial Providers Will Partner With Fintech To Build Ecosystems ”.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Thoma Bravo orchestrated the mash-up of Meridian Link and CRIF , Q2 announced its intent to acquire Cloud Lending Solutions , adding loan origination capability along with its homegrown account opening solution. Beyond BOLTS , this third party category won a 2017 Battle of the Garage Bands GonzoBanker Award for a reason.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

billion in technology startup funding in 2019, a new record for the market and almost $4 billion higher than it saw in 2018. FarmERP offers enterprise resource planning technology to the agriculture and farming sector, and it currently operates in 25 countries. According to TechCrunch reports, citing Tracxn data, the nation saw $14.5

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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. The Real “Lending” Stock Award – Goes to longtime player LendingTree. FinTech threats and distractions.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 10, 2017

Avin Arumugam, senior vice president of the Internet of Things at Visa, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2017, which takes place March 6-7 in San Jose. Arumugam was at JPMorgan Chase for four years prior to his starting at Visa in May 2016. Recent video footage also Read More.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

Toward the start of 2018, analysts began to highlight the potential for venture capital (VC) to embrace the B2B business model. and India drove a surge in FinTech venture capital funding in 2017, and Accenture Financial Services Senior Managing Director Julian Skan pointed to the B2B business model as a significant presence in this trend.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

The funding will also go toward technological advancements, more improvements on its product suite and better big-data capabilities. Prentice, a co-founder of Skype and ex-chief strategy officer, formed Oriente in 2017, along with Hubert Tai, a founder of Ping An’s Lufax and Chinese unicorn dangdang.com, and investor Lawrence Chu.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A FinTech payday startup called Hastee has received a $270 million investment from Umbra Capital Partners, with participation from IDC Ventures and others, according to reports. The startup was founded in 2017 by Simon Draper and James Herbert. Hastee allows workers to get 50 percent of their paychecks up front via the Hastee app.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

However, Trevor Dryer, co-founder and recently former CEO of small business lending technology firm Mirador , said that unlike large banks, credit unions often offer a more localized and personalized approach to servicing their small businesses. That is significantly greater than the 26.8 percent — during the month).

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 18, 2018

We all figured it would happen sooner or later, and now it has – by Thoma Bravo , which, as part of the deal, merged MeridianLink with CRIF Lending Solutions’ ACTion, Synergy and Achieve divisions. CRIF Lending has been a solid competitor in the consumer LOS space. With its investment in Hyland (i.e., The Impact on CRIF Clients.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2018

CB Insights unveiled the second annual Fintech 250 — a list of 250 of the most promising private companies applying a mix of software and technology to transform the financial services industry. Funding Trends: Since 2017, these 250 private companies have raised $31.85B across 373 deals. THE FINTECH 250 STORY. across 4 investments.

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