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Hong Kong’s FinTech Strategy

Chris Skinner

It shows how important FinTech is when major financial centres vie for focus. London has been leading the charge to be the FinTech capital of the world, but many other cities are nipping at their toes. So I was intrigued to see Hong Kong issue their FinTech strategy today. Does this matter?

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Glint Plans Expansion To US, Tata Capital Launches Working Capital Platform

PYMNTS

and Tata Capital has rolled out a new lending platform in India. At first, the company will be referred to as ‘TransUnion, formerly Callcredit’ and will then be known as just TransUnion later in 2018. In other news, India’s Tata Capital has rolled out an online working capital platform for its customers, the company said.

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Alt-Lending Conglomerate TruFin Lands $97M In IPO

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An alternative lending conglomerate based in the U.K. The firm is the holding company for an array of FinTech companies operating in supply chain finance, invoice finance and the dynamic discounting market. Many borrowers are neglected by banks and still face expensive funding and capital. reports noted.

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Deep Dive: How FinTechs Harness Machine Learning To Approve SMB Loans More Quickly And Safely

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A multitude of SMB investors are looking to help, but lending to digitally focused SMBs comes with its own hurdles, including fraud risks and inefficient lending procedures driven by stiff regulatory measures. SMB Lending Risks. Many FinTechs are using these ML applications to accelerate their financing approval processes.

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Can Data Driven Lending Displace VC Funding For Some Firms?

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CircleUp entered the market in 2012 as a data driven variation on venture capital (VC) funding to solve for part of that problem in retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms. CircleUp’s lending platform was founded in 2017 to fill that hole and has underwritten about $300 million in loans since then. The first is focus.

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iWoca Looks To Grow SME Alt Lending Access

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Alternative lending was supposed to be the way SMEs broke through banking barriers to gain access to capital, enabling them to boost growth opportunities, investment options, commercialization of innovations and employment. This is not entirely unusual, as alternative lending is still a relatively new and growing category.

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FinTechs Link With FIs Down Under And Beyond

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Increasingly, digital strategy is in the purview of banks and non-bank lenders, who in turn are seeking pairings with FinTechs. The insurance FinTech, said the site, will seek to offer insurance contracts that are binding in real time, whereas traditionally insurance companies have finished the process. The FinTech is Finserve Africa.

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