PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Indonesian peer-to-peer lending platform JULO is closing its Series A2 funding round with $15 million raised, after extending its initial $5 million Series A funding by an additional $10 million, according to a report. In South Asia, digital lending is becoming more and more common.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Hong Kong-based mobile lender, WeLab announced that it raised $220 million in a Series B funding round today. The round included big names like Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, Credit Suisse and World Bank’s International Finance Corporation. This latest round of funding brings WeLab’s total to $425 million.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

Square Capital LLC processed more than $820 million in Small Business Administration (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) forgivable loans in six weeks, the firm reported. the mobile payment company, said it provided a financial lifeline to more than 76,000 small businesses. Last year, Square Capital did $2.3

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

SoLo Funds announced it has added a Mastercard integration so users can link their debit accounts to the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform. This integration brings us a step closer to our goal of transforming the lending sector by providing timely access to small loans through everyday mobile users.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The Kenyan National Assembly is considering a law that would make mobile lenders in the country subject to central bank oversight, which would force them to reveal transactions fees and interest rates before they dole out loans. These mobile loan apps have commercialized poverty.”. There is need for consumer protection.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

challenger Starling Bank is moving forward with plans to introduce business lending services, reports in Specialist Banking said this week, with the bank revealing new details about its strategy. “We don’t think we’re going to automate every lending decision,” said Doignie.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 18, 2018

Mobile lending app Tala today secured $65 million in its latest round of funding. marked for its expansion to India. With over 1.3 billion people, rapidly advancing technology, and government backed initiatives to digitize financial services, India is becoming an important market for fintechs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

So it is with the Chinese alternative lending space, with various nomenclature in place, seemingly interchangeable, embracing P2P loans or internet lending – in short, funds flowing outside the confines of the bank branch and the teller window. Regulations take shape, usually quite a bit more slowly.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Investors have backed Switzerland-based FinTech startup KiWi to help the firm expand its small business payments and lending operations in Mexico, reports in BankingTech said Monday (Jan. The firm enables businesses to accept electronic payments via mobile POS device. Square has also added financing via Square Capital.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 4, 2016

A deep read of OnDeck Capital‘s earnings report yesterday reveals this truth: the company is moving away from marketplace lending.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

For small businesses, expansion is key, and expansion needs capital. In a partnership formed recently with Puerto Rico’s Oriental Bank, Biz2Credit said late last month that it has begun offering its digital lending platform to the bank’s commercial clients. 500,000 in the United States, with terms of three to five years.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Mobile payments company Square grew its gross payment volume 34% over last year, and its loans through Square Capital were up twice that — 68%. The San Francisco-based company processed $13.7 billion in payments in the fourth quarter of 2016, compared with $10.2 billion in the same quarter last year. Read More.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

When it comes to small business (SMB) lending, the top two contenders for business owners are banks and alternative financiers or online marketplaces. Credit unions (CUs), meanwhile, are rarely the first point of contact for small businesses in need of capital or other financial services, according to a recent Federal Reserve report.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Merchants and disbursements providers need to innovate quickly to stand up against their competitors, many of which are smaller FinTechs or startups that can capitalize on the host of customers that near-exclusively transact and receive money through digital and mobile devices. Instant Loans And The Speed And Security Balancing Act.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

With more consumers than ever interested in fulfilling all their financial needs on mobile, both legacy banks and FinTech firms are focusing on creating digital-only banking services, designed to catch and keep customers using their smartphones to bank. An Inside Look at Chase’s Mobile Banking Approach.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2017

With home loan growth expected to slow to 4 percent in 2018, National Australia Bank (NAB) wants to build its business elsewhere, namely in SME lending. A report in The Australian on Monday (July 31) revealed news that the NAB is adding new features to its small business (SMB) lending unit, QuickBiz, in an effort to build market share.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

New Jersey-based financial institution Investors Bank has announced a collaboration with online small business lending firm OnDeck to digitize its own small to medium-sized business (SMB) lending operations. The companies announced their collaboration in a press release Monday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2016

Venture capitalists continue to back the alternative lending startup community despite recent fallout from Lending Club and revelations the company’s then-CEO Renaud Laplanche allegedly falsified loan documents. Also on Tuesday, India alternative lending marketplace Lendingkart announced its own investment round.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

France’s FairMoney , a small business and consumer micro-lending technology company operating in Nigeria, has announced $11 million in venture capital funding. Mobile FinTech is key to addressing financial inclusion for under-banked businesses and individuals, particularly in Africa where smartphone penetration is high.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

EXCLUSIVE—Cloud infrastructure and data analytics are becoming more and more integral to financial services, and Capital One is one bank ahead of the curve. “We We are a very data-driven company, we want to bring the bank to the customer,” Linda Apsley, vice president of data engineering at Capital One, said of the bank’s use of […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Tala, the consumer lending app in emerging markets, announced Monday (Oct. The company said its loans, which are between $10 and $500, are dispersed to a mobile wallet or via a payment method of the customer’s choice. “At 22) a strategic investment from PayPal.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

educated entrepreneurs met while working abroad at Renaissance Capital and Deutsche Bank. such as Zopa and Lending Club, they saw an opportunity in emerging markets that had been ignored by the big banks, such as Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan. Observing the rise of disruptive companies in Europe and the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Soon after Lending Club revealed its ex-CEO may have artificially inflated the company’s lending volumes, the U.S. Find out which alt lenders secured $77 million in venture capital, as well as the other startups across the U.S., Alternative Lending. alternative lending space this week, too. Lendingkart.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Two years ago today, Lending Club was ringing the bell on an IPO that one early investor called “a no-brainer.”. Lending Club’s model does not need bank branches on each street corner, and it can turn around in minutes and hours, not days. “I So what went so right for LendingClub two years ago today at its IPO — and then so wrong?

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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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Bank Innovation

MAY 6, 2016

That’s what the industry needs: competing marketplace lending associations. Today, the three big names in marketplace lending (for now — more on that below) that were not in the just-launched Marketplace Lending Association have formed the Innovative Lending Platform Association.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

China-based micro lender Dunxin Financial Holdings this week announced its plans to roll out a mobile-based supply chain finance solution next month. The solution allows sellers to obtain capital on the same day of shipment to shorten accounts receivable days sales outstanding periods and to enhance cash flow.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The company offers businesses working capital so they can borrow funds at a percentage of their income and pay them back in increments, as they make sales through the platform, minus a set fee that is determined by the company’s sales history.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The funding will be used to grow FinAccel’s credit lending app Kredivo, and develop additional financial services. The company said it has raised more than $200 million in debt and equity in 2019, and has raised $140 million in equity to date. .”

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Darrell Esch, PayPal’s GM of its business financing unit, says that the company is so pleased with the progress of its Working Capital program that PayPal will now boost the amounts it will lend to SMBs. Those numbers also come against the backdrop of Oct. 2015’s tally, reporting a respective $1 billion and 60,000 merchants.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 9, 2016

Investors were looking to today’s Lending Club Corp. earnings as a sign of validation for the troubled marketplace lending sector. Instead, they got scandal. The company said Renaud Laplanche has resigned as chief executive and chairman after an internal review found sales of $22 million in near-prime loans to a Read More.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Potential borrowers apply online or via mobile, can be approved and offered a rate within 15 minutes, and can have their loans funded within 24 hours. For banks, including relatively large banks, Goldstein noted, entering into personal lending markets is daunting, even if it is appealing from a variety of standpoints.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

The last 12 months have undoubtedly been a difficult period for marketplace lending pioneer Lending Club. But the silver lining is that banks appear to be coming back to the Lending Club platform as investors in loan packages. Will it be enough to get Lending Club back on course?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2016

The mobile payments firm now offers an eCommerce platform and small business lending services. The latter is its most recent venture, having announced last July that it would begin lending to its small business clients as part of an effort to expand into a digital bank. Paytm is run by parent company One97 Communications.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Key Takeaways With more customers leveraging channels like online and mobile banking, community financial institutions are trying to solve how to maintain their hallmark community focus in an increasingly digital world. Community financial institutions' experience with PPP technology also translates to other areas of lending.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 22, 2018

There are quite a few lending solutions these days for small businesses -- Funding Circle, OnDeck, Kabbage, and Square Capital, to name a just a few -- but innovation and digitization are lagging in other areas, such as digital account opening. Enter Gro Solutions, a sales and marketing platform for financial institutions.

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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. We’re starting to see that.”.

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