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SMB Alt-Lending Gears Up For Another Industry Shakeup

PYMNTS

After industry consolidation and a leveling-out of venture capital interest, alternative SMB lending remains a strong market, though just like traditional banks, it has also faced new lessons as a result of the current market. “It comes in waves, there’s no doubt about it,” he said about the alt-lending boom.

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Temenos to Acquire Kony: So What?

Gonzobanker

Any overlaps between Akcelerant in loan operations and Avoka in sales/origination appear to have been sorted out in the Infinity product line. Still to be sorted out are overlaps between Infinity and Kony’s UI/UX assets.

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Disrupting Insurance: The Other Financial Services Opportunity

Tefkin

In the last years, most of the focus on innovation in financial services has been, it seems, on banking (investing and lending) and payment. In an insurance world, there is a conflict between the requirements of the underwriting algorithm for being able to price the premium and the optimal UX for users to be able to obtain a product.

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Top 5 Customer Development Posts of 2022: Digital Banking and Pricing Opti

FICO

The business model here needs to focus on a strategy that balances lending growth while keeping risk in check. You need to establish a learning culture where you can rethink the way your organization operates. Small UX improvements (like real-time address lookup) can have a big impact on customer experience.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. Yet the Gonzo team has to give a shout out to the late entry of Texas Capital and Independent Bank. The Tech Award – Goes to Capital One. Best of luck in the next chapter, Chris!

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. SoFI gets a commercial bank that brings deposits, compliance, AND business lending. Goes to Tom Brown and the Second Curve Capital team for the inspiring message from Clemson CEO Jim Clements.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. For three of the tools we looked at — Mint, Level Money, and Check — we studied how their product evolved all the way up to their acquisition (by Intuit, Capital One, and Intuit, respectively). In aggregate, they command $1.3 trillion in annual spending.

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