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The New Lending Fintech Bonanza

Gonzobanker

It was into this world that the much celebrated digital lending fintech OnDeck recently sold to Enova for $90 million, a virtual fire sale at way under 1X OnDeck’s revenue. They primarily support – don’t compete with – federally insured bank lending. or 26X revenue but quickly doubled in the market. mortgage market.

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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

Still to be sorted out are overlaps between Infinity and Kony’s UI/UX assets. For Kony clients, the Temenos deal eliminates the distraction that could have been associated with an IPO and provides a strong, well-capitalized parent.

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SoFi Unveils Digital Wealth Management Platform, SoFi Wealth

Fintech Labs Insights

Less than a month after announcing its new $105 million SoFi Prime Income Fund to help raise funds to issue loans, online lending innovator SoFi is making headlines again with the launch of SoFi Wealth. The presentation focused on how Quovo developed a bank authentication API for SoFi that both improved security and streamlined UX.

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

Fintech Labs Insights

Kikka Capital. Alt-lending. P2P lending marketplace. Tags: Consumer, lending, peer-to-peer, P2P, credit, underwriting, investing. Total raised: Unknown. HQ: Austin, Texas. Source: Crunchbase. Lease-to-own financing platform. Latest round: $12.5 Total raised: $12.5 HQ: New York City. Source: FT Partners. mPOS platform.

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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. Small UX improvements (like real-time address lookup) can have a big impact on customer experience. In fact, thoughtfully designed points of friction can be extremely valuable for managing risk and making customers feel safe.