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UK’s Metro Bank To Buy P2P Lender RateSetter For At Least $3.27M

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London-based Metro Bank has struck a deal to buy peer-to-peer lender RateSetter for £2.5 Metro will make additional payments to shareholders if RateSetter reaches certain benchmarks, according to a news release. Metro Bank will operate RateSetter as an independent entity and make loans under both its and Metro Bank brands.

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Goop Inc Taps Into Booming Wellness Market

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Goop has also notched over $82 million from outside investors and venture capital funds and reportedly has a value of more than $250 million. At the same time, major brands have backed integrations taking place during conferences. It was to have exclusive brands like Sidney Garber, which has bracelets that sell for $8,600 and up.

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BankBazaar Moneymood® Report 2020 : A Deep Dive

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Trends are segregated based on metros & non-metros, gender, and age. When it comes to credit products, the divide between metros and non-metros is noted to be dwindling. lakh in metros and Rs. lakh for non-metros. Similarly, for Car Loans, the average car loan ticket size in metros was Rs 5.7

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Teacher-Focused Homebuying Startup Lands $7.5M

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“I’ve followed the team at Landed for several years in their mission of providing more equitable access to homeownership to some of the most important community members – our educators and teachers,” said Initialized Capital partner Kim Mai-Cutler.

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Grocery Delivery Alabama Startup Shipt Takes On Instacart, AmazonFresh And Google

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number one grocery delivery brand. Shipt has raised $40 million in venture capital on top of last year’s funding as initial investors doubled down on their contributions. Shipt has raised $40 million in venture capital on top of last year’s funding as initial investors doubled down on their contributions.

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Uber Shutters Car-Leasing Program

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We have decided to stop operating Xchange Leasing and move toward a less capital-intensive approach,” said a spokesman. metro areas, including 14 branded showrooms, and raised a roughly $1 billion credit facility from a consortium of banks.

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Mobile Order-Ahead Delivered The Goods In 2019

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Tons of capital was raised and spent on new systems and processes. DoorDash and Grubhub also got deliveries — in the form of municipal lawsuits over tipping, billing and compensation practices common to MOA brands. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

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