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Community banks most likely to approve small business loans

Abrigo

Over the first half of 2014, these banks, with an approval rate of just under 60 percent, beat out large national banks (31 percent), large regional banks (45 percent) and online lenders (38 percent). Its goal was to capture the perspectives of small businesses with less than 500 employees across ten states.

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SMEs Severely Dissatisfied With eLending Experience – Fed

PYMNTS

But Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland senior policy analyst Ann Marie Wiersch told Forbes in an interview that bank lending to small businesses is still struggling. Among the most common complaints for online lenders included “high interest rates, unfavorable repayment terms and lack of transparency,” the report wrote.

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

PYMNTS

Just ask Carvana, the leading online automotive seller and a major force in changing the way people buy cars. This belief is based on “the Company’s operating plan, that current working capital and expected continued inventory and capital expenditure financing is sufficient to fund operations and satisfy the Company’s obligations.”.

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This Week In Insurance Tech: Gojek Rolls Out Online Insurance, Blockchain-Enabled Insurance Tests, AXA Partners with ClassPass

CB Insights

Goodcover , a San Francisco-based insurtech, raised a $2M seed round led by Fuel Capital. Proformex , a Cleveland-based life insurance policy management platform, raised $500K from undisclosed investors as indicated in its Form D filing. The company has raised $7M in total disclosed funding to date. at an implied 12.4x P/E multiple.

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Beyond Amazon Go: The Technologies And Players Shaping Cashier-Less Retail

CB Insights

Clients can view the full list of 150+ cashier-free retail operators here. Some historians date its existence to over 2,000 years ago: texts from ancient Greece describe a coin-operated machine for dispensing holy water in temples. Today, Amazon operates four Amazon Go stores: 3 in Seattle and 1 in Chicago. Companies to watch.

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Cognitive Technology: A shelter in the storm of regulatory change

Insights on Business

This is capital that cannot be deployed elsewhere or used to create value. More effective use of technology is key to better adapt to regulatory changes, cut costs and free up much of that locked-up capital. When the Watson-powered IBM Safer Payments system went online in France, it was fed 4.7 The system can learn.