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With $200m debt capital raise, Brex seeks to grow e-commerce client base

Bank Innovation

On the heels of a $200 million debt capital raise confirmed this week, corporate card and financial product startup Brex plans to ramp up its product offerings for e-commerce entrepreneurs. Chief Financial Officer Michael Tannenbaum told Bank Innovation […].

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Fifth Third Links Rejected Business Borrowers To Alt-Lender

PYMNTS

To offer expanded services as it pursues a digital innovation strategy of harnessing partnerships to provide an enhanced customer experience, Fifth Third is teaming with Fundation for small business loans. Companies that lack access to capital are not able to grow their operations or have had to cut their headcounts.

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How Can Financial Services Institutions Better Support Women? – An International Women’s Day Blog

Perficient

This program strives to provide “women entrepreneurs around the world with business and management education, mentoring and networking, and access to capital.” The program has 10 courses in topics including business finance, digital marketing, and innovation strategy.

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Brex: Market volatility not ‘doomsday’ for tech funding

Bank Innovation

billion since its 2017 founding, is optimistic about venture capital funding for tech companies, despite current market volatility. Brex, a corporate card and financial product startup that has raised $315 million in equity and reached a reported valuation of $2.6

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With $40M of fresh capital, Upgrade lines up bank account launch 

BankInovation

Upgrade, the personal loan and credit card service provider, plans to launch a mobile bank account by quarter’s end, on the heels raising another $40 million of venture funding from Santander InnoVentures yesterday.? “We’re

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Inside Look: The meteoric rise of point-of-sale lending in the U.S.

BankInovation

economy began to show signs of recovery after the initial shockwaves of the Great Depression, General Electric launched a point-of-sale lending product to provide cash-strapped customers with installment loans so the manufacturer could sell its product. Since we spun out of GE Capital five years ago, we’ve just […].

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Weekly Wrap: Varo is a bank and a big week for payments startups

BankInovation

A banking charter comes with capital requirements and regulatory oversight that will not be appealing to all fintechs,” said Julie […]. Varo Money officially announced today it is shedding the “banking startup” title, as the company has finally received its banking charter after a three-year journey.

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