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Most Americans Don’t Know What’s Included in Their Credit History

Bank Innovation

Most Americans do not know that many non-traditional payments are not included in their credit history, according to a survey conducted by the Atlanta– based alternative credit bureau, FactorTrust. Lending Club, for example, […].

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Small Business Banking Catching Up in Innovation Race

Bank Innovation

There are quite a few lending solutions these days for small businesses -- Funding Circle, OnDeck, Kabbage, and Square Capital, to name a just a few -- but innovation and digitization are lagging in other areas, such as digital account opening. Atlanta-based Gro has […].

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Lending FinTech GreenSky Files For IPO

PYMNTS

Lending FinTech GreenSky has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO). The Wall Street Journal reported that the Atlanta-based company, which enables retailers, health-care providers and home contractors to offer loans to their customers, could go public as soon as this summer.

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Today In Payments: ECB Outlines Use Cases For Digital Euro; Goldman To Pay $2.5B For GM’s Credit Card Business

PYMNTS

The purchase furthers Goldman's push into Main Street lending and gives Goldman access to over one million cardholders, who account for roughly $8.5 As shoppers continue to move to digital channels, merchants’ chief financial officers and treasurers won’t only be tasked with ensuring consumers’ online payment demands are met.

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Kabbage Set To Launch Payment Processing Services

PYMNTS

The Atlanta-based startup will offer tools so that its clients, mostly brick-and-mortar businesses, will be able to accept card payments in-store and online, Kabbage’s President Kathryn Petralia said in an interview, according to Reuters. The monoline businesses have a hard time succeeding long term,” Petralia said. billion.

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Kabbage Gets $200 Million from Credit Suisse

Bank Innovation

The funds will used by the Atlanta-based Kabbage to scale and expand its lines of credit with longer terms to its existing customer base, as well as some of the larger small businesses. Small business lender Kabbage received $200 million in revolving credit from Swiss financial institution, Credit Suisse.

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Ebix Snags India Travel Company Yatra In $337.8M Deal

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India’s largest business travel service provider, Yatra Online, has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Atlanta-based software firm Ebix. Ebix said the deal has an enterprise value of $337.8 Ebix has invested over $650 million in businesses in India.

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