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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

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In comparison, investments in new technology or new business lines pale in comparison to other strategic investments due to the time and effort it takes to get a business line off the ground. Your capital is likely in it for the long why shouldn’t your strategy match? This, however, could be a mistake.

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SMB Alt-Lending Gears Up For Another Industry Shakeup

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and other nations around the world as a result of the global pandemic continues to draw comparisons to the 2008 financial crisis — so it’s only natural that analysts may turn to the past in an effort to predict what could lie ahead. “It comes in waves, there’s no doubt about it,” he said about the alt-lending boom.

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OnDeck, Kabbage, CAN Capital Join Forces

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Another SME financing advocacy group has been formed, this time by OnDeck, Kabbage and CAN Capital. The firms announced the creation of the Innovative Lending Platform Association on Thursday (May 5), citing advocacy, education and the development of best practices as their goals.

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For UK’s SME Lending, Looking Toward Tech For A Boost

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That’s the opinion of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which earlier this week said technology would be one of the underpinnings of getting lending to increase to SMEs, a group that would naturally benefit from improved access to capital. In the U.K.,

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From Bad To Worse, Marketplace Lending And The Brexit

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Which under normal circumstances is pretty good – but they kind of pale in comparison to the global display of metaphorical fireworks. A few years ago marketplace-based online lending was being hailed as the the signature innovation that was going to upend tradditional bank based lending for consumers and small businesses everywhere.

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Without Regulation, Alternative Lenders Turn To Self-Policing

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Last week, OnDeck, Kabbage and CAN Capital banned together to form the Innovative Lending Platform Association (ILPA), an advocacy group to champion increased transparency for small business borrowers in the alternative and marketplace lending sphere. It isn’t the first initiative with this goal.

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Saving Main Street: Advocacy Groups Propose New Government Relief Programs

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The prevailing sentiment, as the crisis heads into its third month, is that more innovative government programs will be necessary to provide any meaningful relief. Most small businesses don’t have a lending relationship with a bank. In comparison, small businesses selling similar products were forced to close.

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