PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

It feels like 2014 again with the ongoing popularity of alternative lending startups. It’s even more surprising given that 2016 could be the year that regulation begins to really kick in for these lenders — in the U.S., Alternative Lending. But the biggest funding round wasn’t in alternative finance. MarketInvoice.

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Bobsguide

JULY 7, 2022

Financial institutions and retail brands gain a new embedded finance platform to help consumers access regulated loans at point-of-sale, powered by Banking as a Service. Financial institutions, distributors and merchants will benefit from a platform that makes it easy for their customers to access lending options.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 30, 2018

Melbourne-based challenger bank Judo Capital will be focusing its efforts on small business banking in Australia, according to banking plans unveiled by the challenger yesterday.

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2016

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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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

federal officials may still be in the early stages of assessing the nation’s alternative lending and small business finance sector, an effort that may eventually lead to regulation of an industry that has yet to face significant crackdowns. The CRBF is not the U.S.’s

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

In today’s top news in payments, Goldman plans to launch a robo advisor for clients with lower investment capital than traditional customers, and Apple plans to offer 0 percent installment financing on iPhones bought with the Apple Card. Regulators Call for ‘Vigilant Monitoring’ of Big Tech’s Financial Data Use.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It would instead offer payment companies a national servicing platform to replace the regime of state regulations such firms would be subject to under existing laws. Commercial companies accessing a payments charter would avoid oversight and regulations that protect the financial system and consumers,” the bank industry leaders wrote.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The PPP might have been the first time many community financial institutions saw such clear returns on digitization investments, but the same automation and efficiency gains can be found in other end-to-end lending solutions. Community financial institutions' experience with PPP technology also translates to other areas of lending.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2016

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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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Cashfree , one of India’s biggest business payments platforms, has announced that it has launched a new suite of payment products aimed at lending companies and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), to facilitate easier loan disbursals across all platforms, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

The financial services market has progressed by leaps and bounds in terms of innovation, from the rise of alternative finance to the development of technologies like blockchain and open banking initiatives. despite a flurry of concerns over regulations, economic development and more.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2016

The Finnish Crowdfunding Act was designed to clarify the role of regulators as alternative lending fills the gap left by traditional banks unwilling to lend to SMEs. Finland’s government has passed proposed legislation targeting the crowdfunding and alternative finance industry, reports on Wednesday (April 13) said.

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Bobsguide

MAY 25, 2018

The deluge of regulations to have hit financial markets since the banking crisis has without a doubt completely reshaped the industry. As well as the burdensome nature of reporting obligations as regulators have attempted to create more transparent markets, capital requirements have fundamentally.

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Bobsguide

MAY 10, 2018

The deluge of regulations to have hit financial markets since the banking crisis have without doubt completely reshaped the industry. As well as the burdensome nature of reporting obligations as regulators have attempted to create more transparent markets, capital requirements have fundamentally.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The PPP might have been the first time many community financial institutions saw such clear returns on digitization investments, but the same automation and efficiency gains can be found in other end-to-end lending solutions. Community financial institutions' experience with PPP technology also translates to other areas of lending.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Takeaway 1 Having a cohesive vision from the top down is critical to a culture of innovation and the successful adoption of new software. . It’s great that more financial institutions are welcoming technological innovations, but banks and credit unions must consider the long-term impact of their partnerships. DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPER .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in recent years thanks to digital and mobile technology, along with online marketplace models. So-called peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has certainly faced challenges in certain markets. Despite lending £6.7

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

It was the (initially) small FinTech startups that delivered a collective shakeup to the small business (SMB) lending industry. Their next target could be small business lending, and according to some experts, it’s fast approaching the market. New reports in Bloomberg on Wednesday (Oct.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Following a recent backlash resulting from allegedly discriminatory underwriting methods for the Apple Card, lenders’ moves are facing scrutiny from regulators. Albert Chang, counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau‘s innovation office, said […].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Plus, Basware enhances its accounts payable (AP) offering, CardUp eases commercial card adoption, Kofax adds new AP features and the Federal Reserve eyes bank lending. Intelligent automation supplier Kofax has announced new innovations for its invoice and accounts payable (AP) solutions, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. When most people asked “what’s next?” The list goes on.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In this podcast for Lend Academy, FICO Blog author Dr. Scott Zoldi talks about his role as FICO's Chief Analytics Officer, the company's AI innovations and how they are being applied in credit risk, fraud management and more. How advanced machine learning models can be explained to regulators.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 1, 2022

The FHFA also issued a request for information (“RFI”) seeking public input on how to facilitate responsible innovation, identify barriers or challenges to implementing fintech into housing finance, support equity for homeowners and renters, and increase efficiency and effectiveness in the compliance and regulatory processes.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

As a general rule, most startups aren’t too happy when the regulator comes around, and it is rarely indicative of good news. And while that is bad news for a startup like Uber, as it turns out, instinctive fear of the regulator is not an endemic condition among startups. Kennedy School of Government.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

He said that in his own state of Washington, state regulators have been looking at those issues for some time to determine the possibility of some sort of reciprocity or sharing of information. “It The pilot being run with those initial seven states will provide some answers for how state regulators can streamline the process.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

But on the second day of Innovation Project 2017, eyes were beyond Beantown and cast toward the world at large. Lending, Lending Everywhere, With Quite a Lot to Think. That includes lending, and, in one panel discussion, loans themselves came under the microscope. It’s a big problem. That is not true,” O’Neil noted.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 8, 2016

Marketplace lenders Funding Circle, Lending Club and Prosper announced Wednesday the formation of the Marketplace Lending Association, a nonprofit organization that will “promote responsible business practices and sound public policy to benefit borrowers and investors.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

Seventy percent of SMBs are adding new digital capabilities or enhancing existing ones to continue their operations, but firms often require financing to implement these innovations. SMB Lending Risks. One of the most pressing issues plaguing SMB lenders is the risk of fraud.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

With the pandemic nudging businesses further into the digital payments realm, commercial card innovation is heating up to capitalize on the opportunity for adoption. ” Capital On Tap Enables Receipt Bank Card. Capital on Tap wields the commercial card to connect small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to financing.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Locality Bank, a digital-first community bank serving south Florida that opened in January, is run by industry veterans with such successful track records that regulators signed off on their application for a charter in less than a year. Location: Fort Lauderdale, Fla. That’s no small feat for any de novo, especially during a pandemic.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

It will capitalize on Contis’ regulated status to help SMBs access support from FinTechs, including new payments and lending capabilities. Contis’s plans include a new off-the-shelf B2B electronic and card payment technology for SMBs. There will be three programs for U.K. ”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

MatchMove’s LightSpeed solution won top honors in the category “Best Payments Innovation of the Year” in the 4th Payments and Cards Awards 2019 held in Mumbai, India. It has raised $20 million to date with August One and SEEDS Capital, among others.

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FICO

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The most prominent villain for fintech companies is regulation. And so it’s easy to see why a fintech company — believing fully in the virtue of its mission and faced with a litany of illogical and intractable regulations — might just say "F*ck it, we're doing it anyways." and China). A Prediction for the 2020s. Brand protection.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2016

Those shocks included LendingClub come-apart as the spark and increasingly interested looking pack of regulators coming to call. 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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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

New York’s Department of Financial Services is recommending that online lenders are subjected to the same scrutiny and regulations that traditional banks face. Cuomo on June 1, 2017, required DFS to study online lending in New York State and submit a report of its findings. A bill signed by Governor Andrew M. Superintendent Maria T.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

The tallies are in: Innovate Finance has calculated the state of investment in FinTech for 2015, and we have the numbers. Innovate Finance released The 2015 FinTech Investment Landscape this month, a report that offers a snapshot at how investors are placing their money among financial innovators. It amounted to about $12.5

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