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Fintech Deals to Watch: Fall Festivities

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Lending: Lending Leaves Change Color Abrigo acquired Valuant for compliance and credit risk and DiCOM Software for automated credit risk software and partnered with Charm Solutions to launch Abrigo Small Business Lending Intelligence. Credit union lending platform Clutch partnered with Zest.ai for automated underwriting.

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Aura Completes $50M Social Bond For 32K+ Loans

PYMNTS

The latest move raises Aura’s raised capital amount to $403 million through 21 bond issuances, a number that has helped to fund 283,469 loans. who simply don’t have access to safe lending and are susceptible to predatory lenders. James Gutierrez, CEO and founder of Aura, said the capital will help further the company’s mission. “We

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Fifth Third Taps Accion To Reach More SME Borrowers

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Fifth Third Bank is focusing its SME lending reach through a new partnership with nonprofit lender Accion. Reports late last week said the bank will work with SME lending portal Accion, a nonprofit company, to facilitate the financing of these companies across five states: Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio.

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Community Banks Debut FinTech Alliance

PYMNTS

Alloy’s Julieann Thurlow, CEO of Reading Cooperative Bank, said, “Community banks play a special role in the lives of our customers, but we don’t have the same IT and innovation budgets as the big banks to capitalize on that relationship.” This time around, Sweetbridge is using blockchain in a lending context.

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Figure CEO: Figure Pay, National Bank Charter Will Boost Financial Inclusion

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While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments. Blockchain and a bank charter might do much to boost financial inclusion.

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Spilling Business Beans

Independent Banker

Treasury program that’s the well-kept secret in small-business lending. In Illinois, a loan participation plan by a community bank “insourced” jobs to the local area from overseas. Working with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity’s SSBCI Participation Loan Program, Northwest Bank of Rockford was able sell $1.2

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The benefits of small business relationships

Independent Banker

Our bank provides access to capital for small businesses that want to start or expand their business by utilizing the Small Business Administration 7(a), Express and 504 loan programs,” says Jennifer DeJean, vice president and SBA manager for D.L. William Atkinson is a writer in Illinois.