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Square Tries To Create A Bank, Again

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Square said it’s going to resubmit the necessary paperwork with state and federal regulators to start a bank in Utah, which could happen as soon as Wednesday (Dec. The bank will be led by Lewis Goodwin, a former executive at Green Dot, and capitalized with $56 million from Square. There won’t be any actual brick-and-mortar branches.

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Call It Alt-Credit Or POS Lending, ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Just Got Bigger

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Utah-based FuturePay has consistently appeared in PYMNTS’ top 5 alternative credit apps, with its offer of flexible monthly payments for consumers and up-front settlement for merchants. Klarna also launched its new “Klarna: Swedish for smooother shopping” campaign in June.

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Facing Tougher Times, Prosper Marketplace Is Making Deep Staff Cuts

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The biggest individual cut will be a Utah office dedicated to lending for medical procedures, but 14 percent of Prosper’s San Francisco- and Phoenix-based workforce is also on its way out the door. According to Wall Street Journal reports, the online lender is shedding 28 percent of its staff and rearranging its executive team.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Business lending and corporate cards. Most recently, Stripe has launched a Corporate Card and a Lending product geared towards small businesses.

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

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All industrial banks are chartered in Utah – and there are only 17 such charters issued, 15 of which are currently active. As we scale, it’s becoming increasingly important that we have direct relationships with regulators,” said Jacqueline Reses, who leads Square Capital and will be the chairman of the bank.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

million gets the vaunted consumer lender a much-prized bank charter, low-cost deposits to juice current earnings, and a business lending capability to drive future growth. Rex Johnson, Baxter Credit Union founder and former CEO – Rex was a legend in the credit union industry who will always be remembered as the “Yoda” of lending.

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Fintech Fundings: 38 Companies Raised $300 Million First Week of June

Fintech Labs Insights

Financing solutions for retailers & manufacturers. HQ: Salt Lake City, Utah. Kikka Capital. Alt-lending. Tags: Consumer, lending, peer-to-peer, P2P, credit, underwriting, investing. Source: Crunchbase. Latest round: $13 million Series B. Total raised: Unknown. HQ: Austin, Texas. Source: Crunchbase.