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APRIL 21, 2022

Finastra appoints Isabel Fernandez to accelerate lending business growth. Company welcomes Isabel to the Finastra leadership team, as EVP, Lending Business Unit. Other roles include President & CEO Global Bank Loans at GE Capital Americas and Head of Enterprise Clients. I’m looking forward to getting stuck in.”.

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JULY 12, 2018

and Tata Capital has rolled out a new lending platform in India. In other news, India’s Tata Capital has rolled out an online working capital platform for its customers, the company said. Tata Capital’s platform is developed in partnership with U.S. Coverage includes U.K.-based FinTech company Biz2Credit.

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JUNE 15, 2016

Bank of America Chief Executive Brian Moynihan is speaking publicly about the potential negative implications of bank stress tests. Reports by The Wall Street Journal this week said the executive is warning that stress tests could force financial institutions to tighten their purse strings when it comes to lending.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

Latin America-based AlphaCredit has signed up for a funding round to raise $125 million, led by SoftBank’s Latin America fund. AlphaCredit is a FinTech platform with a focus on consumer lending and finance solutions. Alcanza Capital and Bontu. It has utilized a number of services including AXS Access, Check!,

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

So, access to capital isn’t just essential for these companies to survive — it’s critical for the economy to thrive. Yet, the small business lending gap remains. In a new report, PayNet and financial research firm Raddon examined the state of small business lending in the U.S.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

Community banks’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times. Lending Discipline : Sensible pricing methodology is part of a loan hedging program, and some hedge providers also offer a loan pricing model.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

Community banks’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times. Lending Discipline : Sensible pricing methodology is part of a loan hedging program, and some hedge providers also offer a loan pricing model.

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American Banker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

With a week left in its 2023 fiscal year, the Small Business Administration has already approved 12% more 7(a) loans than last year. Larger banks were among the biggest gainers as a result, according to the agency's latest data.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The stakes are high for businesses of all sizes, and the latest data on corporates in America makes that abundantly clear. ” He did note, however, that there could be some cause for concern with SMBs reporting a lack in their pursuit of aggressive growth strategies and working capital financing. We share all the details below.

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American Banker

MARCH 27, 2024

The banking giant has launched an online platform that links small-business owners and entrepreneurs in need of capital to community development financial institutions. The platform was developed in partnership with Community Reinvestment Fund USA.

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JUNE 21, 2017

Small business lending platform Nav announced Tuesday (June 20) that Visa Head of Global Small Business Janet Zablock is joining its board as an independent member. “Small businesses have traditionally struggled to navigate an increasingly complex lending process,” Zablock said in another statement.

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MAY 2, 2017

For small businesses, expansion is key, and expansion needs capital. In a partnership formed recently with Puerto Rico’s Oriental Bank, Biz2Credit said late last month that it has begun offering its digital lending platform to the bank’s commercial clients. 500,000 in the United States, with terms of three to five years.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Bank of America and the traditional banking system is being disrupted across a wide variety of core revenue streams. . Bank of America, for one, saw profits drop 16% year-over-year (YoY) in Q3’20 to $4.9B. Consumer deposits and savings are the bread and butter of any traditional bank, and Bank of America is no exception.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In 6 years, Latin America (LatAm) fintech funding has grown from less than $50M to top $2.1B In this brief, we discuss the key macroeconomic drivers that help explain why the Latin America fintech ecosystem has remained strong despite uncertain market factors. ” The post Latin America Is Suddenly Fintech’s Hottest Market.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Bank of America paid an 18.6 While FIs vowed to use those savings for a variety of measures, such as increasing small business lending, reports said lending growth has actually slowed since the implementation of the tax reform. Overall, the top banks saw lending grow by 2.3 Reports in Bloomberg on Wednesday (Feb.

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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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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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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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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company, Reuters reported, to help it debut on the stock market. The news reveals CEO Anthony Noto 's aspirations to go public after he succeeded SoFi Co-Founder Mike Cagney in 2018. SoFi was valued at $4.8

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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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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. He will report to Barry Rodrigues, CEO of cards and payments, and Richard Haworth, CEO of the Americas business.

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Abrigo

APRIL 21, 2020

Key Takeaways Financial institutions have 10 calendar days to disburse PPP loans To address financial institutions’ liquidity and leverage concerns, regulators have helped to facilitate lending. PPP loans carry a 0% risk weighting, meaning they don’t count against the institution from a risk-based capital standpoint.

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MARCH 29, 2020

Bigger lenders — JPMorgan Chase , Bank of America , Capital One and Santander — are pouring over various borrowing rules and making revisions, informed sources told the WSJ. Square and On Deck Capital are among the FinTechs planning to follow suit in the coming days.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Capital, capital everywhere — but, for big U.S. As reported earlier this week, the Federal Reserve is boosting capital requirements for the biggest U.S. bank investors, the old Seinfeld punchline: “No dividends for you!”. For the bigger banks. For the bigger banks. banks as part of a new series of rules that take effect in 2018.

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Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In Latin America two chilean start-ups were the winners: Destacame.cl , aiming to financial inclusion by creating a credit scoring based on utility payments; and Bitnexo which enables fast, easy and low cost transfers between Asia and Latin America, using Bitcoin. Discover the finalists of all regions here.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

“We have around 40 companies that fit in Brazil,” the group’s head in Brazil, André Maciel, told the news outlet during an event at Cubo, a technological hub funded by Itaú Unibanco, the largest private bank in Latin America. . In Brazil, 82 percent of all assets are controlled by five banks. Creditas is aiming to change that.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 1, 2014

These large corporations are found in almost every town in America. ” There is a real opportunity here for community banks to position themselves within this movement and capitalize on what the consumer sees as their strengths— relationship-based lending , tailored product offerings, and knowledge of the local community.

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JUNE 7, 2019

This week’s B2B Venture Capital roundup is all about data. However, the biggest funding round of the week went to a company that is not yet in the B2B FinTech space, though it has plans to use the capital to launch a cross-border, small business (SMB) money-transfer service. Catch up on the latest investment rounds below.

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APRIL 13, 2018

Blockchain Capital. Blockchain heavyweight Ripple made headlines this week when it announced a $25 million investment in Blockchain Capital, a venture capital firm focused on backing blockchain startups. The funding comes in the form of Ripple’s own cryptocurrency and will be used to fund startups selected by Blockchain Capital.

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MAY 9, 2016

Bank of America, Capital One, Wells Fargo, Chase and more published their findings — sometimes to contradicting conclusions. Chase reached some optimistic conclusions regarding how small business owners feel about the year ahead, while Capital One highlighted a 9 percent decline in SME optimism. Small businesses’ top concern?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As reported, iwoca , a small business lender focused on online lending (with loans up to 250,000 pounds) said it raised 150 million pounds in debt and equity financing (where the division was 20 million pounds of equity financing and with the remainder as debt), as per reports Monday (Feb. In news that came from across the Pond, two U.K.-based

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

By now, the alternative lending market is hardly new, and investor appetite for startups in the space seems to have waned. This week, alternative finance companies raised more than $77 million in venture capital funding, accounting for nearly 70 percent of total funds raised by B2B FinTech startups this week. SMB Finance.

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MAY 11, 2016

In any business endeavor, working capital is a form of oxygen. Working capital allows firms to buy parts, pay workers, ship products and wait for payment with a cushion of funding in place that can help meet unforeseen events. Recently, the firm announced a deal with Hitachi Capital America Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The cash flow challenges for small businesses have been in place for a while, in Latin America since well before the pandemic took root. In Latin America, the infrastructure mainly relies on banks to provide kind of these types of services to the SME segment. trillion globally, according to Shoihet.

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MARCH 21, 2019

The latest move raises Aura’s raised capital amount to $403 million through 21 bond issuances, a number that has helped to fund 283,469 loans. who simply don’t have access to safe lending and are susceptible to predatory lenders. James Gutierrez, CEO and founder of Aura, said the capital will help further the company’s mission. “We

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The nonprofits include: 1863 Ventures , Association for Enterprise Opportunity , African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs , Baltimore Business Lending , Black Girl Ventures , Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Micro Finance Group , EnrichHER , Expanding Black Business Credit Initiative , Grameen America , Kiva , MORTAR , Nebraska Enterprise (..)

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

A top corporate banking executive at Bank of America (BoA) is slated to depart the institution, according to The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ) reports Thursday (Sept. The unit handles the bank’s corporate lending, M&A advisory services and capital raising operations. ”

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