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Alt-Lending Regulation Fears Won’t Stop Investors

PYMNTS

It feels like 2014 again with the ongoing popularity of alternative lending startups. Earlier this week, reports emerged that some alternative lending and industry professionals are beginning to heighten their anxieties about incoming regulation, particularly as some ponder whether the U.S. Alternative Lending. MarketInvoice.

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Hong Kong Relaxes Rules In Effort To Boost FinTech Lending

PYMNTS

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.

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The Russian Connection (To Alt Lending Globally)

PYMNTS

Long before founding a data science, credit scoring and digital finance company, the Russian-born and U.K.-educated educated entrepreneurs met while working abroad at Renaissance Capital and Deutsche Bank. Observing the rise of disruptive companies in Europe and the U.S.,

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Alt-Lending Enjoys Sudden Investment Revival

PYMNTS

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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Investors Balk At Talk Of Alt-SME Lending Collapse

PYMNTS

The alternative small business lending market took home the biggest slice of cake this week with about $33.5 million worth of venture capital across two deals. But it was the big names from Google, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard that made for the week’s largest enterprise-focused venture capital round. SME Finance. and Europe.

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The Consumer Credit & Lending Market In Mexico Sees Competition Intensify With Kueski Raising To Take On Fondeadora, Nelo, And Alphacredit

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Kueski , a consumer lending and credit startup, has raised $202M — $102M in Series D funding from StepStone Group, Richmond Global, and Angel Ventures Mexico, among others, and $100M in debt funding from Victory Park Capital. How’s the company performing? Want the full post? Become a CB Insights customer.

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Newly Funded B2B Startups Tap The Power Of Data

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This week’s B2B Venture Capital roundup is all about data. With a total of $388 million raised this week, newly funded startups are deploying an array of data analytics technologies to address B2B finance friction. Yellowbrick Data. Catch up on the latest investment rounds below. Biz2Credit.

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