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Beneficial State Bank’s financial activism

Independent Banker

Location: Oakland, Calif. billion-asset community bank in Oakland, Calif., Beneficial State Bank was born from a bold idea and a gift of capital from activists and philanthropists Kat Taylor and Tom Steyer. It’s a CDFI, which means that 60% of lending is made to low- and moderate-income customers or underserved communities.

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Building from Scratch

Independent Banker

Bank Headquarters: Oakland, Calif. Like a craftsman bricklayer steadily assembling a sturdy house, Nelson built her successful career and her community bank in Oakland, Calif., Two years later, Nelson moved as a single mom to Oakland, where she again found a job as a teller at a regional bank. By Beth Mattson-Teig. Branches: 3.

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Fintech Fundings: 9 Companies Raise $73 Million Week Ending Dec 31

Fintech Labs Insights

If you add the $6 billion in new capital raised in the IPOs of Worldpay, Square and First Data, the 2015 total is a nice even $25 billion. HQ: Oakland, California. Social media management & compliance for financial institutions . Credit risk management. Social media financial compliance specialist Gremln raised $1.4

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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $400 Million Week Ending May 20

Fintech Labs Insights

Along with the usual payment and lending startups, two insurtech companies raised substantial rounds: Embroker ($12.2 Finovate alums accounted for 40% of the week’s dollar volume including: Personal Capital raised $75 million for its digital wealth management service. Personal Capital. Digital wealth manager.

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Fintech Fundings: 23 Companies Raise $685 Million Week Ending Dec 18

Fintech Labs Insights

The vast majority went into alt-lending including NYC-based Pave ($30o million), Australian P2P platform MoneyPlace ($60 million from Auswide Bank), and Chinese lenders Fengjr.com ($80 million) and Dashu Finance ($77 million). Investing & portfolio management. Indexa Capital. Low-cost investment portfolio management.

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Fintech Fundings: 114 Companies Raised $7.3 Billion in April

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Oakland, California. Marketplace small business lending platform. AI for capital markets news. Tags: Consumer, lending, credit, underwriting, healthcare, payments, insurance. Fintech deals by size from 23 April to 29 April 2016: Mosaic. Marketplace lender for residential solor projects. Total raised: $224.9

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First Look: The 56 Fintech Companies in YC’s Latest Batch (W21)

Fintech Labs Insights

Oakland, CA. Streamline your debt capital raise and management. Modern money management platform with points. Embedded lending infrastructure for software companies. Lending #Cards. R2 Capital. Stripe Capital for Latin America. Capital #SMB. Lending #DebtManagement. New York, NY.