PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Two years ago today, Lending Club was ringing the bell on an IPO that one early investor called “a no-brainer.”. Lending Club’s model does not need bank branches on each street corner, and it can turn around in minutes and hours, not days. “I So what went so right for LendingClub two years ago today at its IPO — and then so wrong?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The number of peer-to-peer lenders in China is projected to decline greatly to around 50 from more than 1,500 during the course of the next year. Several other industry executives told the Financial Times that the new regulations will push most of the companies out of the market.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

unsecured lending is bad rather than unsecured lending should only be extended to high pass risk rated credit). The following is an example of how I would address the structural exception of non-recourse lending. Generally speaking (subject to Regulation B), business loans should be guaranteed by the principals of the borrower.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It’s a world where the parent company has such as tight rein that one step out of the guidelines and regulations can merit a devastating suspension. In short, it’s a world where access to capital and legal advice is welcome. So we looked at the financing end, and then all of those lending options.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The challenge with the influx of capital is that most financial institutions don’t know how much of the money at their institutions will hang around – or for how long. In a competitive lending environment, many banks and credit unions are concerned about losing good-quality loans if they over-price them. Lending & Credit Risk.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

central bank, is getting a bit worried about sharing some of the financial infrastructure with tech upstarts such as OnDeck Capital and Kabbage , a sense of caution that the newswire said puts the bank “at odds with other regulators looking to bring [those firms] into the fold.”. Reuters reported early Monday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Investors have cooled off to alternative lending in the U.S. Just look at the near-immediate struggle faced by Lending Club and OnDeck after their IPOs in 2014, or more recently, the knock-on effect Lending Club’s less-than-noble lending practices have had on investor confidence in other marketplace lenders.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Then, there was the announcement of Square Capital’s partnership with Upserve , a restaurant management system (the same one that also acquired Breadcrumb from Groupon in May) to extend working capital to restaurants. Online Lending. After a one-week hiatus, Lending Club finds its way back onto the Fizzle list.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. Blockchain, of course, isn’t only to blame. Marketplace Lending. Blockchain. Digital banks. Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

SMB Working Capital. Amex threw its hat into the online lending ring earlier this week when it announced that it will launch a program later this year that will extend lines of credit from as little as $1K to as much as $750K for qualified SMB borrowers. Investor Confidence In Marketplace Lending. Next time, guys?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

While regulators had transparency and financial security in mind when introducing more stringent requirements for banks following the global financial crisis, financial institutions faced a sudden surge in the burden compliance. There is a silver lining, however, if financial institutions are willing to recognize it.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Banks should brace for more focus – at least from the European Central Bank – on capital structure and liquidity as Brexit looms and takes effect. Amid a closer look at capital structure and needs, the bank may impose higher capital requirements, which in turn may impact lending activities or ability. Brexit backlash?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

The headlines in recent weeks may have trumpeted China’s push toward becoming a world leader in the blockchain space, with government (and thus likely unlimited financial) backing stirring excitement, and where crypto prices (cryptos, of course, run on blockchain) rose, and then proved, to put it mildly, as volatile as ever.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

Three months in, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation still stymies some firms seeking to comply with new rules and regulations governing data protection and privacy. The regulations would follow a revision to the Payment Services Act seen last year that brought a registration system in Japan.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Regulators warn once again about rising CRE concentrations and risks. A whopping 95 percent of ICBA members are active commercial real estate (CRE) lenders, according to the latest ICBA Community Bank Lending Survey. He adds that regulators and bank management need to act to prevent those risks from becoming reality. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

And one of those rapidly changing topics that’s caused a lot of stir recently has been the evolution of online P2P lending marketplaces. Or, as the Lending Club saga has shown, how difficult it’s become to scale the business model to a level investors expect. And why the lending marketplace will always pose a challenge?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Put a different way: If you open a country’s financial markets, will the (foreign) banks bring the capital? Capital requirements remain stringent, which means that there’s less money to tie up abroad. The field is open, of course, as foreign companies have just 1.4 Will China’s invitation get the party started?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

And when it comes to online lending, the bond market just gave it a big thumbs down. Of course there are the usual broader concerns about the health of the consumers who live and shop globally, across borders – yes, that means China, and of course the United States. Sometimes bonds do.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 28, 2016

IB: What safety and soundness issues are the regulators watching out for this year? Regulators also have been mentioning strategic operational risks more frequently, those risks associated with pursuing new business relationships, activities or models. The trends apply to commercial and retail lending.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Then again, looking that far into the future may overlook some of the challenges — and opportunities — that lie in the here and now in the payments space, amid a venture capital landscape that has changed markedly over the last few years. That’s especially true in the consumer lending and demand deposit account (DDA) startups.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Kabbage is a data and technology platform that enables real-time lending. Our focus has always been on user experience and for them to get capital in less than ten minutes. The goal of all that money is, of course, to lend to small business owners. To date, the business has provided over $2.5

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Nearly one year after the Basel III capital rules went into effect, community bankers say that now recognize just how much more complex and how much more difficult this new set of capital rules will make life and business for them if they remain in place. No one was prepared for January 1st.”. Zaback, president and CEO of Jonah Bank.

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Filene

AUGUST 18, 2016

Let’s cut to the chase—here are 3 different views on the impact of payday lending. Any way you slice or dice it, this dish leaves a bitter taste: If it were a country, the "Empire of Payday Lending" would be the 104th largest economy in the world.*. Payday Lending is the 104th Largest Economy in the World.

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BankUnderground

JULY 29, 2020

However, the empirical literature, most prominently Heider, Saidi and Schepens (2019) , find that commercial banks generally do not push deposit rates to negative levels, so that negative policy rates compress banks’ net interest margins and hence their willingness to lend. This would of course not lock in current low interest rates.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2018

Among the fuel for this shift is PSD2 , the European banking rule designed to free up data and access (with consumer approval, of course) across standardized formats and processes — which, in turn, could make it easier for smaller companies, for FinTech , to play harder on the field dominated by major financial institutions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Sapphire Ventures is one venture capital firm with a heavy hand in this space. 14), the company revealed a new $1 billion venture capital fund. Of course, Sapphire won’t reveal whether it will lead any mega-deals with its new fund. And it’s about to get heavier. On Wednesday (Sept.

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 21, 2024

Of small business owners who applied for a business loan in early 2023, 6 in 10 found it difficult to find affordable financing, and overall, 77% are concerned about their access to capital according to a survey from Goldman Sachs. According to Randi Zeller, senior advisor to Community Reinvestment Fund, USA: “There is no lack of capital.

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CFPB Monitor

MARCH 30, 2015

On March 26, the CFPB held a public hearing on payday and auto title lending, the same day that it released proposed regulations for short-term small-dollar loans. ” Cordray explained and defended the CFPB’s proposed new regulations. Kelly Cochran, Assistant Director for Regulations, CFPB.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 25, 2014

Investment bankers will tell you the definitive answer, which is of course their opinion. will provide greater capital resources and operational scale that will allow us to grow as part of a larger community bank." - Loralee Hutchinson, President of Alarion Financial Services, Inc. What is driving deal volume? Our combination.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Here it is. Don’t get us wrong.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Here it is. Don’t get us wrong.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Under the right circumstances, providing residential mortgages that fall outside of the new federal Qualified Mortgage definition could help a community bank grow its lending, some community bankers say. a $613 million-asset community bank serving central and northern Wisconsin that engages in non-QM lending. Still holding back.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

There was, of course, added pressure from carrying debt to the tune of $5 billion. Another philosophy points to the collapse of small banks and credit unions in the post-crisis years, and the collapse of the market for home equity loans, which could have made it harder for would-be entrepreneurs to get access to capital.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The offering is a full on banking, payments, and capital programming environment that connects to Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Citi. Affirm wins when it plugs in a technology network as a distributor of its lending product. As we see in the diagram above, the capital itself still sits in licensed and regulated entities.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The offering is a full on banking, payments, and capital programming environment that connects to Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Citi. Affirm wins when it plugs in a technology network as a distributor of its lending product. As we see in the diagram above, the capital itself still sits in licensed and regulated entities.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 3, 2020

There have been some signs from regulators, however, that a token changes nature over the course of its lifecycle. It also helps that issuing governance tokens for a DAO creates market capitalizations and enterprise value for token holders. It may add securities-like features, while starting out as an empty container.

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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. Business lending and corporate cards. Most recently, Stripe has launched a Corporate Card and a Lending product geared towards small businesses.

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