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Amazon Taps BoA To Reduce Merchant Lending Risk

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Amazon is partnering with Bank of America Merrill Lynch to expand its lending program for small businesses. Amazon Lending is an invitation-only program that offers loans of $1,000 to $750,000, with terms of up to a year, for companies that might have issues getting traditional business loans.

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FinTech Firms Show Banks The ‘Art Of The Possible’ In SMB Lending

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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. “What we didn’t know until this study was the size of the credit market for small businesses. For banks, the reason often comes down to profits.

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How Small FIs’ SMB Lending Journeys Nudge The US Toward Open Banking

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As Mark Rockefeller, co-founder and chief executive officer of small business lending-as-a-service provider StreetShares , told PYMNTS in a recent interview, that pressure to digitize expands to credit unions and community banks in their SMB lending offerings, too, and do it profitably. In markets like the U.K.

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Unbundling Bank Of America: How The Traditional Bank Is Being Disrupted

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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. Tech companies are chipping away at the traditional bank’s market share.

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Banks, Rival Markets Benefit From US-China Trade Spat

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and China, analysts are finding a shift among global supply chains away from the Chinese market, to the benefit of markets that traditionally don’t see much trade volume. Steve Madden is one retailer that publicly announced its efforts to move its supply chain operations out of China. 13) said the U.S.-China

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Morgan Stanley Goes After Brazilian FinTech Market

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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. Morgan Stanley’s move comes at a time when the Brazil FinTech market is exploding.

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A Guided Tour Of Payments In Latin America

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In talking about global payment technology, emerging markets are an area of keen interest. Latin America is a land of opportunity, but it also presents challenges that demand an on-the-ground understanding of commerce and transacting within the various countries and cultures that it comprises. WHY GOING LOCAL MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

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