PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2018

Lending FinTech GreenSky has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO). The Wall Street Journal reported that the Atlanta-based company, which enables retailers, health-care providers and home contractors to offer loans to their customers, could go public as soon as this summer.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

New Jersey-based financial institution Investors Bank has announced a collaboration with online small business lending firm OnDeck to digitize its own small to medium-sized business (SMB) lending operations. The companies announced their collaboration in a press release Monday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

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 Open Banking Partnerships – Focus On Romania.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

For small businesses, expansion is key, and expansion needs capital. In a partnership formed recently with Puerto Rico’s Oriental Bank, Biz2Credit said late last month that it has begun offering its digital lending platform to the bank’s commercial clients. 500,000 in the United States, with terms of three to five years.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2020

AlphaCredit is a FinTech platform with a focus on consumer lending and finance solutions. Alcanza Capital and Bontu. There will be other leading venture capital firms from international waters also joining with SoftBank, though the press release does not list them.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in recent years thanks to digital and mobile technology, along with online marketplace models. So-called peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has certainly faced challenges in certain markets. More Focus on P2P Lending.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Not one of the four alternative lending startups that secured investments this week were from the U.S. Alternative Lending. Late last week, South Africa’s LulaLend brought some rare attention to the nation’s alternative lending space. There’s talk that alternative finance is dead. Well, in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The company’s target consumers have often had few accessible options, other than payday (and other short-term) lenders, when they want to borrow. For banks, including relatively large banks, Goldstein noted, entering into personal lending markets is daunting, even if it is appealing from a variety of standpoints.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Robocash Group, a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform, aims to raise $5 million in the next half-year from investors in Europe who want to invest in Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore, according to reports. With the completed integration, Robo.cash users can invest in the region and its development. billion two years later.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Soon after Lending Club revealed its ex-CEO may have artificially inflated the company’s lending volumes, the U.S. Find out which alt lenders secured $77 million in venture capital, as well as the other startups across the U.S., Alternative Lending. alternative lending space this week, too.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Earlier this year, Italy initiated its largest bank bailout in its history when it committed up to $19 billion to save two failing regional banks, Banca Popoalare di Vicenza SpA and Veneto Banca SpA. 20), the ongoing struggles of those FIs is putting as many as 40,000 small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the region in jeopardy.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 5, 2024

When we analyze the same size/ROA relationship using banks’ efficiency ratios, it is not surprising that community banks (under $10B in asset size) have, on average, a 5% higher efficiency ratio than regional banks ($10B to $50B in asset size) as shown in the graph below. Larger loans have lower credit risk, all else equal.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 5, 2024

When we analyze the same size/ROA relationship using banks’ efficiency ratios, it is not surprising that community banks (under $10B in asset size) have, on average, a 5% higher efficiency ratio than regional banks ($10B to $50B in asset size) as shown in the graph below. Larger loans have lower credit risk, all else equal.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

With more than $200 million in venture capital funding landing with B2B FinTechs this week, investors had their eyes set on a variety of pain points in corporate finance. Small business finserv was a popular target this week, with startups securing funding for their SMB banking, lending and accounting tools. Lendingkart.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

Some are more exposed to credit card debt and lending to oil and gas companies. banks have stopped lending as much to European businesses as well, showing the home bias that is expected during a financial crisis. Many European banks have reduced lending to oil and gas companies, though. However, U.S.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Most fintech companies are fine, but they’ve stopped blowing off econ class for mimosa brunches. Lending Tech With Almost Steady Grades (Even With Rough Semesters). The energy and uncertainty of youth are headed back to school. Especially in fintech, which had the roughest semester last spring.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

This week’s B2B Venture Capital roundup is all about data. That includes application program interface (API) technologies to connect third parties to banks, artificial intelligence (AI) to enable companies to recruit talent and data warehousing to boost business intelligence capabilities for large enterprise. Biz2Credit.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Nuvemshop , a Latin American alternative to Shopify, has raised $30 million in a venture capital round as it tries to boost business, according to reports. The four intended to start a new marketplace software product for the Latin America region.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Singapore’s FinTech firm ADVANCE.AI , Hong Kong’s financial services company Sheng Ye Capital and Singapore’s firm Phillip Capital are the most recent in a series of contenders for critical business permits in Singapore. Other companies include Razer, Grab Holdings and Ant Financial.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

FinTech firm MatchMove has struck a deal to acquire a “strategic stake” in eCommerce solutions company Shopmatic, according to reports. Shopmatic said in an announcement that it would “leverage the MatchMove reach and network to originate new customers as well as accelerate our platform growth across the region.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

An Egyptian firm landed the MENA region’s largest-ever seed round, a California company proved U.S.-based based alternative small business lending isn’t dead with investors and an India startup landed more than half a billion dollars. based Steadview Capital, adding to the previous Series A round announced in April.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As reported, iwoca , a small business lender focused on online lending (with loans up to 250,000 pounds) said it raised 150 million pounds in debt and equity financing (where the division was 20 million pounds of equity financing and with the remainder as debt), as per reports Monday (Feb. As Yahoo Finance U.K. FinTech Efforts in Estonia.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2019

B-North wants to disrupt the £154 billion UK business lending market. The majority of SME lending is via the big High Street banks and our experience shows they often use outdated ‘legacy’ systems, rigid lending policies, and faceless, centralized processing centers. percent in equity at a £14,247,942 ($18.7 million ($1.97

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This week's look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaborations explores how a range of banks is turning to partners and API connectivity to enhance small business services, from lending to payments. app-first bank Atom is also collaborating with the company to enhance its own small business lending workflows.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

When the company was founded in 2005, Premal had initially turned to one of the big names in banking, but ultimately decided to go with a community bank to service the organization. The reality is, anyone can give out capital," Shah continued. "It Fueling Small Business Recovery. Surviving Low Interest Rates.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

But, as Shoihet said, these firms account for roughly 50 percent of trade volume in the LATAM region. The other 50 percent, he said, comes from the SMBs that are being overlooked by the traditional financial services community, he told PYMNTS — and who create a majority of jobs in the region. trillion globally, according to Shoihet.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software development company Credify, based in Singapore, has raised $1 million in a seed funding round from SoftBank-backed artificial intelligence (AI) incubator Deepcore, as well as Beenext, according to a report. The region also experiences some of the highest fraud rates, in both finance and eCommerce. An average of 1.6

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

landed on the board, too, as alternative lending, small business banking, back-office financial management and accounts receivable technology enticed backers. Challenger bank Yelo, operating in India, raised an undisclosed sum from Matrix Partners India, Omidyar Network, Flourish VC and Better Capital, Inc 42 reports said this week.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

It’s a self-perpetuating scenario that keeps barriers to capital in place. In a recent conversation with PYMNTS, Raghav Mathur, head of data science and analytics at Singapore-based Grab Financial Group , discussed the opportunities in data technology that can address the region’s most pressing SMB lending needs.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

With social distancing and an economic downturn the new reality for many markets around the world, venture capital is expected to slow significantly. bank technology firm securing $100 million to expand in the region. Plus, an accounts payable technology company announced a $127 million equity round. KarbonCard. next year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

California BanCorp , the holding company for California Bank of Commerce (CBC), has announced the launch of a Treasury Management Consultancy to enable firms to manage their liquidity, utilize excess cash for better investments and reduce financial risks. “We

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

Each week, PYMNTS will round up some of the latest initiatives from governments, banks and FinTechs around the world to lend support for small businesses struggling as a result of the coronavirus. to help bailing out their SMB customers, with some regional financial institutions (FIs) already taking action. Fed Calls On Small Banks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Creation of the new unit would be part of a much larger overhaul of the financial technology company and subject to approval by Chinese authorities, who pulled the plug on the company’s massive initial public offering late last year, according to Bloomberg. Ant Group had $263 billion in outstanding consumer loans as of June 2020.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Using CB Insights data, we highlighted 75+ Latin American companies, from early-stage to late-stage, making waves across an array of verticals in financial services tech. Track the LatAm fintech companies in this brief and many more on our platform. Track LatAm fintech companies. LatAm Fintech. 630+ items. Categories.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The small business loan market is oversaturated, she argued, creating a “FinTech credit bubble” that first showed signs of deflating as investors pulled out of some players like CAN Capital and LendingClub in 2016. Between market consolidation and partnerships with traditional banks, alternative lending is certainly already an in-flux market.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Today, it works with companies in over 120 countries spanning every industry, company size, and business model. Broadly enabling online commerce.

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