PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

Grab Financial Group , the Southeast Asia FinTech company, announced Tuesday (March 19) the rollout of SME lending and micro-insurance for drivers in Singapore as part of its “Grow with Grab” roadmap. Grow with Grab” is its full push into lending and insurance, the company said in the press release.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

B2B payments startup Razorpay announced the launch of Razorpay Capital, a lending marketplace offering both short-term working capital loans and long-term business loans. We always thought we can make lending a lot easier than what it is today. The platform offers loans varying from $7,058 (INR 5 Lakhs) to $141,000 (INR 1 Cr).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The FinTech Capify has pulled in an additional $10 million in an equity round of funding and is banking on continued support from the Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division for its lending platform, which is geared to small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Capify is an online alternative lender that serves SMBs in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

With the holiday shopping season in full swing amid the global pandemic, online commerce is booming. Digital Black Friday sales this year hit $9 billion, a 22 percent increase from 2019 figures, according to recent Adobe research. The company now operates in the U.K., Small Business, Big Challenges. Europe, Canada, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Potential borrowers apply online or via mobile, can be approved and offered a rate within 15 minutes, and can have their loans funded within 24 hours. Avant is really two businesses operating under one roof — connected in crucial ways, but separate in function. These are massively complicated and expensive systems to build.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

bank branches in 2017 “reflects the industry’s ongoing evolution to serve customers more effectively while reducing operating costs.”. Glover spoke with PYMNTS again about how this trend will carry into 2019 and what technologies might be able to help banks strike the balance. In 2019, it is about ensuring the FI has the right?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

That means that on the brink of 2019, it remains uncertain whether the next year will look more like the best of times or the worst of times when it comes to providing consumers and small businesses (SMBs) with access to financial services — both in and outside the traditional bank-backed channels. The Two Faces Of Consumer Credit.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

GonzoBankers, 2019 was a year of extremes. Third, read and enjoy the 2019 edition of the GonzoBanker Awards, our 18 th. Mark Turner, Executive Chairman of the Board, WSFS Bank – We have to give the nod to an early 2019 retirement of Turner, who had one hell of a run in 12 years at the helm of a great community and wealth bank.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Takeaway 3 Financial institutions should consider the impact of this rule and prepare for changes to their business operations. Online lenders, platform lenders, and fintechs should also consider sending feedback to the CFPB and considering the ways their operations might be affected. Proposed Rule. Commenters have until Nov.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Embedded Payments A 2022 study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco noted that app payments increased as a percentage of total consumer purchases from 11% in 2019 to 15% in 2020, to 29% in 2021. At just 4 cents per transaction, the fees to the merchant are far less than the 2% to 3% fees charged by credit cards.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Kraft Heinz, one of the world’s prominent global food and beverage companies, operates Evolv through a team effort, involving food, startup and venture capital professionals. He said Fabric’s goal was to “change the game” in how businesses operate. In 2019, Fabric’s a new grocery site, serving same-day deliveries, also went live.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

China’s peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market is headed for more turbulence in 2020 as more of its popular platforms face potentially being shut down as the government tightens regulatory reins. Gansu, Hebei, Hunan, Chongqing and Sichuan were among Chinese provinces ordering a total shutdown of P2P lending in 2019.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Soon after Lending Club revealed its ex-CEO may have artificially inflated the company’s lending volumes, the U.S. Investors on Monday (June 27) provided $10 million to D3 Banking for it to further its research and development operations, reports said. Alternative Lending. Lendingkart.

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FICO

APRIL 28, 2020

The winners of the 2019 FICO® Decisions Awards can now be formally announced. The 2019 FICO Decisions Award winners have demonstrated what is possible with a clear business objective, innovative use of technology and a great partnership. We thank the 2019 judges for their help in identifying the best nominations.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Time is running out to apply for Bank Innovation’s DEMOvation Challenge, in which fintech startups demo before a crowd of conference attendees in hopes of earning their vote and walking away with prizes. The application deadline is Friday, February 8. Apply here.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

6), with the announcement that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will overhaul a series of 2017 payday loan regulations, set to go into effect in August 2019. Our goal in this rule or any regulatory action is to ensure people who need short term, small dollar loans can get them from safe, regulated, reliable lenders online.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 26, 2019

This combination of technology and human interaction, how community financial institutions are using them and other efforts to achieve client satisfaction, will be the focus of a panel discussion next month at the 2019 ThinkBIG Conference in Orlando, Florida. Stay Up-to-Date On Lending Best Practices. Learn More. The 2018 J.D.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

According to reports out earlier this week, Goldman Sachs and Amazon are in discussions about possibly partnering for small and medium-sized (SMB) business lending in the U.S. The partnership would apply Goldman’s lending technology to SMB loans on Amazon’s underwriting platform, according to unnamed sources.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

That unit will include the company’s online lending platform, Marcus , and credit card business, the latter of which is done through a joint venture with Apple. In the filing, known as an 8-K, Goldman said it would commence with the new reporting with its fourth quarter 2019 results. billion for the quarter that ended Sept.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

For the first 12 days of April they dropped tumbled 63 percent vs. 2019. Online auto sales are the only game in town. That’s good news for consumers who shop for cars online, which they did at an 86 percent rate during 2019. A small percentage of car purchases were made online last year.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2019

It's the beginning of a new year, and naturally new trends will take shape. The seed for some trends like voice banking and contactless payments were already planted last year, while others such like core overhauls went relatively untouched last year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

That unit will include the company’s online lending platform, Marcus , and credit card business, the latter of which is done through a joint venture with Apple. In the filing, known as an 8-K, Goldman said it would commence with the new reporting with its fourth quarter 2019 results. billion for the quarter that ended Sept.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Takeaway 1 For solid ag lending returns, focus on assessing credit risk in current portfolios and effective pricing. . Takeaway 2 Sentiment rose in 3Q, but the highly uncertain outlook warrants caution in ag lending activities. A tricky year for farmers, ag lending. You might also like this webinar watch. Pandemic Impact.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The report discusses the Bureau’s examinations in the areas of consumer reporting, debt collection, deposits, fair lending, mortgage servicing, and payday lending that were completed between September 2019 and December 2019. Fair lending. Payday lending. Key findings are described below. Consumer reporting.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Google’s parent, Alphabet, reported fourth-quarter results with gains in search and YouTube businesses, while cloud outpaced the growth rate of those operations. The investment bank is (maybe) partnering with Amazon to move into SMB lending — leveraging the latter’s scale and reach. Grab Launches GrabInvest.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

In terms of customers going online to bank, BofA added that digital sales accounted for 45 percent of all consumer banking sales for the quarter. In the home lending segment, the company saw two-thirds of applications done digitally. million during the quarter. Active digital banking users likewise grew 3 percent to 39.3

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Accenture

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Guest blogger Markus Naumer examines how digital payments technology is enhancing credit lending and showing promise in addressing consumer credit-aversion challenges. In most European countries, for example, unsecured card lending is less than 18 percent of total unsecured consumer lending.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Swedish peer-to-peer (P2P) lending upstart Lendify has reportedly secured $115 million of funding, while international trade platform Contour has teamed with information technology (IT) solutions firm Mphasis. billion kronor (approximately $171 million) infusion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

The statements were contained in the PBOC’s FinTech Development Plan 2019-2021. Beyond the confines of Europe, Cryptix , a blockchain service provider based in Zug, Switzerland, has said that it acquired Blocktrade, which operates as a digital asset exchange platform.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

A bit closer to home, 2019 marked a record year in the U.S. — More than 9,300 stores went dark, and among them were locations operated by marquee names, such as Sears , Party City and Payless. But online lending companies are seeing a surge in digital loans — up 19 percent year over year in 2019.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

Additionally, within the investment and lending segment, revenues were $1.8 As reported in a statement that accompanied the earnings release, CEO David Solomon said the quarter showed a “muted start” to 2019. In addition, as many as 7,500 people will be shifted from engineering and operations into other business units.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Samsung Electronics smartphone sales will increase in the holiday shopping season, with the general trend lasting into 2019, the company said when announcing its Q3 results. Operating profit for that entire division increased about 1 percent year over year, to about $1.9 Mobile Flagship Sales. billion transactions globally.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

billion in a venture funding raising round led by Softbank’s Vision Tech Fund and announced SME lending and micro-insurance for drivers in Singapore as part of its “Grow with Grab” roadmap. Grab Financial’s goal is to become the region’s largest payments and financial services platform in 2019. It recently raised $4.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

More than 40 percent of United States businesses received at least some of their invoices in 2019 via a form of communication that many younger generations may have trouble identifying, let alone using: fax. This statistic is emblematic of a larger problem in the world of B2B payments. Around The BaaS World.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

backers focused on accounts payable (AP) technology, cannabis procurement and small business lending, to name a few – but it was a FinTech specializing in the high-growth market of on-demand payroll that secured the top spot in this week’s roundup. From Singapore to the U.K., and also to scale to meet existing customers’ demand.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Hal Schroeder, a Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) board member, led a presentation, “Roadmap to the Future: Fact vs. Fiction (on CECL and Other FASB Standards),” at the 2019 ThinkBIG conference in September. During the presentation, Schroeder addressed many CECL questions, shedding light on the nuances of the standard.

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