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Tradeplus24 Steps Into Aussie SME Lending Market With Deep Tech Partner

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Switzerland alternative lending company Tradeplus24 is entering the Australian market through a collaboration with Trade Ledger , the companies announced. According to the companies, Tradeplus24 is targeting Australia because its market offers high margins and limited competition. Reports Friday (Jan.

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The Russian Connection (To Alt Lending Globally)

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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. And, by using alternative sources of data, ID Finance says it can extend credit to a much larger portion of the population.

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Alt-Lending Regulation Fears Won’t Stop Investors

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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

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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. Cash invested on the platform, said the company, stands at $2.7

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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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Alt-Lending Enjoys Sudden Investment Revival

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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

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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.

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