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Finastra launches embedded consumer lending solution

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Financial institutions and retail brands gain a new embedded finance platform to help consumers access regulated loans at point-of-sale, powered by Banking as a Service. Financial institutions, distributors and merchants will benefit from a platform that makes it easy for their customers to access lending options.

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Chinese Big Tech Value Plummets $280B Amid Regulatory Issues

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“The combined losses of the five tech heavyweights since their Monday’s close has contributed to more than $280 billion being wiped off in terms of market cap at the close of the trading day in Hong Kong,” according to CNBC’s calculations. The State Administration for Market Regulation — China’s regulator — said on Tuesday (Nov.

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How Regulators Killed The Wells Fargo-Amazon Student Lending Venture

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As it turned out, Amazon thought it was offering a Prime perk — when what it was actually doing was walking into a political firestorm over student lending. Senator Brown reached out to the CFPB and the Office of the Comptroller of Currency to see if the announced deal was perhaps leveraging deceptive marketing practices.

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Australia Rises In Global Alt-Lending Ranks

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Australia is now the Asia Pacific region’s second-largest alternative finance market, largely due to a favorable regulatory climate, according to new KPMG analysis. The Australian market is quickly becoming a hotbed of alternative lending , and new analysis from KPMG suggests it has risen up in the ranks.

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QuickBridge Shifts SME Lending Strategy

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15) that the company is now called QuickBridge and is expanding into the direct-to-business lending sector. ” In another statement, QuickBridge Vice President Jason Oslecki pointed to the company’s ability to better service SMEs by directly lending to borrowers. The alternative lender announced Tuesday (Nov.

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China's Financial Industry Firms Redo Plans, Funding In Wake Of More Oversight

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With regulators cracking down in China, FinTech leaders are scrambling for capital and trying to plan their futures, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Nov. And those lending in multiple provinces would have to have 5 billion yuan in registered capital at a minimum. The report said Alibaba has used such practices, among other companies.

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Another Maryland threat to bank partner model lending

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According to the factual allegations in the OCFR’s Charge Letter : The Bank offers in-store retail credit financing as well as store-branded credit cards to Maryland consumers. In 2016, the OCFR brought an enforcement action against CashCall, a nonbank operating a high-rate bank model program. million in penalties against CashCall.