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Amid The Losses, Taking Stock Of The Crypto Crash

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In this space just last month, we noted findings from Boston College that showed that 4,000 ICOs had raised $12 billion. One of the duo responsible for the Boston College paper, PhD candidate Hugo Benedetti, took note of the gold rush that comes when the timing is spot on. Past is prologue, as the saying goes.

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Why One Startup Is Desperately Seeking Regulation

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Officials at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the national bank regulator, told the Boston startup they would weigh its request. “We need to be open to discussing it and working through it,” said Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry, referring generally to bank charters for FinTech companies.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

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million gets the vaunted consumer lender a much-prized bank charter, low-cost deposits to juice current earnings, and a business lending capability to drive future growth. Rex Johnson, Baxter Credit Union founder and former CEO – Rex was a legend in the credit union industry who will always be remembered as the “Yoda” of lending.

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Happy Birthday To PYMNTS

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The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). If this person can’t afford this, we won’t lend. Don’t worry if you didn’t remember to get us a present – we didn’t want to make too big a deal out of it, so we didn’t remind you.

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Fintech Fundings: 24 Companies Raise $560 Million Week Ending Jan 8

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HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Lendful Financial. Bitcoin mining hardware. Consumer lending software for financial institutions. Tags: Consumer, credit, lending, loans, underwriting, enterprise, Finovate alum. Total raised: $319.7 million ($44.7 million Equity, $275 million Debt). HQ: New York City. Source: Crunchbase.

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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $220 Million Week Ending March 25

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Three Finovate alums brought in new cash: Kreditech raised $11 million for its banking and lending services for the underbanked. Here are the fintech deals by size from 19 March to 25 March 2016: Open Lending. Automated lending solutions for financial institutions. Automated lending solutions for financial institutions.

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Fintech Fundings: 15 Companies Raise $125 Million Week Ending May 1

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HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Tags: Peer-to-peer, P2P, lending, investing. There were two jumbo rounds: $50 million to cryptocurrency startup Circle and $30 million to multiple Finovate Best of Show winner MX (formerly Money Desktop). Here are the deals listed by size from April 25 to April 30: Circle. Digital currency provider.