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Lendified And The SMB/Millennial Connection

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Lendified , which offers loans to small Canadian businesses online, said earlier this month that it has secured a $20 million credit facility through Liquid Capital. So it is with the extension of credit to smaller firms who need the funds to gain top-line traction.

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Biz2Credit Tells Banks To Stop Fixating On Millennials

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They must strive to maintain solid credit scores and solid performance over time in order to get access to capital at better rates and terms.”. No one is writing about it because it’s not sexy, but the reality is that there is a lot of opportunity in small business lending with older borrowers,” Arora added.

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

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And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Necessity is the mother of invention. Behind the Numbers .

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Why Digital Lenders Are Tightening Their Lending Criteria

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In the early days of online lending, the big appeal was access to funds for potential borrowers with few, if any, options for securing capital. They all had a pretty tough time and took losses a lot more than expected,” said Henry Song, a portfolio manager at Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. The Coming Risk Assessment Reset.

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Big ‘Payoff’ For One Online Lending Startup

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Not all is lost in the online lending space. The firm targets millennials, offering what the site said represents a financial personality test. The money being lent out comes, mostly, from Eaglewood Capital Management. TechCrunch reported on Thursday (June 16) that Payoff has raised a nice payoff of $46.7

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How CFIs Can Remain Relationship-Focused in a Digital World

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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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China’s SMB Push Continues Amid Alibaba’s Taobao Festival

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Amid China’s efforts in recent months to boost small business activities – notably through initiatives that focused on small business lending in that country – Alibaba Group’s Taobao expanded its Maker Festival to be global in scope, with a spotlight on the youngest of entrepreneurs. The September event, which spanned Sept.