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JULY 25, 2018

Invoice factoring company Interstate Capital is focusing on speed with its latest enhancements. The firm said this week it is offering an expedited factoring process to accelerate the time it takes for businesses to access capital when they’re waiting for their invoices to be paid. But competition in the industry is growing.

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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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MAY 20, 2019

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has proposed a national development fund to help invest in social issues, digitization of the economy, education and transportation, according to a report by Reuters. million) to put into the fund.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

WATCH Takeaway 1 Banks and credit unions are critical sources of capital for businesses in their communities, so how institutions assess CRE credits matters. Takeaway 2 Advisors recommend that financial institutions look behind some of the headlines and examine their own markets before ruling out CRE altogether. is robust.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Caesars Entertainment announced that it has reached an agreement to offer DraftKings , the leading sports-tech entertainment brand in the country, providing market access for its online gaming products. The access is exclusive to Caesars locations across select states where the company operates casino properties. and Australia. .

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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

New York Venture Bank, a new financial institution (FI) created by big names in the financial services industry, has applied for a national bank charter. FDIC), the news report noted the new bank will begin with $100 million in capital. There will also be deposit products and online banking, among other offerings.

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JUNE 24, 2016

The roundup of this week’s venture capital investments in B2B startups offers some insight into the geographical differences in how this space is developing. market struggles with investor doubt and regulatory scrutiny. did land on the board this week, thanks to one industry that has garnered particular attention in the nation.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

The FDIC has issued a final rule that establishes a new framework for analyzing whether deposits made through deposit arrangements qualify as “brokered deposits” and amends the methodology for calculating the interest rate restrictions that apply to less than well capitalized insured depository institutions (IDIs).

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Hong Kong-based digital payment platform Statrys has recently landed $5 million in funding through a closed-door funding deal with an angel investor with the expectation that the firm will get market share in the expanding remittance and digital payment arena, according to an announcement.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

Small business software firm Womply is rolling out its cybersecurity solution designed to safeguard companies’ online presence, the company announced on Wednesday (Aug. “Increasingly, the most damaging threats to revenue for small businesses are found online,” said Womply President Cory Capoccia in a statement.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company, Reuters reported, to help it debut on the stock market. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for its application for a national bank charter. SoFi was valued at $4.8

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As concerns are raised about how industry consolidation might impact competition, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is warning that it could hinder small businesses’ access to capital and financial services. making it one of the nation’s first new community banks in years. months in the first half of 2018, from 5.6

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JUNE 6, 2016

Biz2Credit is expanding its small business lending operations into a market without much experience with alternative finance. An announcement on Friday (June 3) said the company will enter India, providing online financing to its SMEs. But the nation’s massive SME community struggles to find financing still, according to Arora.

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JUNE 7, 2016

Drilling down a bit, the key areas of lending, said Arora, “would be the working capital needs” of small businesses and a sweet spot tied to those needs, where $150,000 to $250,000 loans would be used to furnish inventory, equipment or ramp up staffing.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The recommerce trend is sweeping not just the nation, but perhaps the world. The consumers conduct the entire transaction online and pay using Alipay , where the money is held in escrow until the buyer receives the item and is happy with it. Smaller firms are growing quickly and making gains in the market. com launched in 2015.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

Because many banks are now producing below their cost of capital, growth further exacerbates their issues and drives them out of business (likely through a sale) faster. Without the windfall of profit accrued to banks in 2022 because of faster-than-expected rate increases, banks will need to be better allocators of capital.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Plus, online lending startup SoFi is looking to go public through a SPAC. economic slowdown fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to continue into 2021 but could start bouncing back by mid-year as the population gets vaccinated, according to a December survey from the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).

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South State Correspondent

MAY 18, 2022

In two recent articles, we reviewed the banking industry’s deposit behavior with regard to cost of funding earning assets (COF) ( HERE ), and we compared how community banks’ COF behaves relative to national banks in a rising interest rate cycle ( HERE ).

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MAY 7, 2020

And often, drilling down into business segments and management commentary provides insight into just how we as a nation are faring, depending on where you look. Larger full-service restaurants opened community markets to sell raw ingredients, produce and food staples through online stores,” he said. The Great Pivot.

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MARCH 29, 2020

Bigger lenders — JPMorgan Chase , Bank of America , Capital One and Santander — are pouring over various borrowing rules and making revisions, informed sources told the WSJ. Square and On Deck Capital are among the FinTechs planning to follow suit in the coming days.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Capital One Halts BNPL Transactions On Its Credit Cards. Capital One Financial Corp is putting a stop to buy now, pay later (BNPL) transactions on its credit cards, calling the dealings “ risky ,” for both consumers and banks. Report: Millennials, Buy Now Pay Later And The Shifting Dynamics Of Online Credit.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

The recent woes of Sears and other struggling retailers are seen as an opportunity for the online retail giant. Right now, Whole Foods has about 470 stores around the nation – which isn’t much considering the proliferation of Walmart and Kroger stores, but it now has the capital to expand into previously unreachable areas, like Montana.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

This IPO marks Petco’s third foray into the public markets following filings in 1994 and 2000. Petco is controlled by CVC Capital Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which acquired the company in 2015 for $4.6 Founded in 1965, the company has stores across the U.S., He added that the pandemic added 3.3

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

have capitalized on a sea change in how we pay. Cross-border online commerce — awash with opportunities to claim new customers and, of course, grow top lines — should quicken the collective pulse of U.S. To capitalize on that aforementioned eCommerce growth in emerging markets and log sales in those regions, U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Growth of FinTech funding seems unstoppable, with the latest analysis from Hampleton Partners finding enterprise financial services and integration, online financial services, enterprise financial software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) risk management as some of the hottest spots for investors this year.

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MARCH 27, 2019

The move to Australia is an effort to capitalize on the country’s thriving eCommerce industry, which is worth almost $30 billion and rising. We see growth opportunities to come into a market where there is rising employment and great population growth, and where the shift into eCommerce and mobile commerce is significant,” he said.

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MAY 19, 2020

CEO Michelle Gass said in a Tuesday (May 19) first-quarter earnings call with analysts that the retailer amplified its digital marketing efforts and revised its online site content. The retailer, for its part, has reopened approximately half of its stores throughout the nation.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Today’s coverage includes the latest way Instagram wants to appeal to online shoppers, along with fresh data about how fraudsters might attack on Thanksgiving Day. Instacart raises new capital, Berkshire takes a stake in Chase and bitcoin has a bad day. Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2018

In markets like Australia, this is already happening. National Australia Bank set up its own alternative lending arm called QuickBiz Loans back in 2016. Over the […].

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

13-14, online merchants in America and beyond are preparing for the earliest, most aggressive selling season ever. With more and more commerce going online, he said, it will also be increasingly important for sellers to process a higher number of returns and chargebacks and to quickly settle customer disputes.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Opendoor , the startup that operates an online platform for buying and selling homes, has raised $300 million, giving it a valuation of $3.8 The funding underscores investors’ interest in real estate, as well as the attractiveness of startups that are disrupting the traditional market. The company has raised $1.3

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Moo will replace Torsten Linke, who was appointed the head of global India and developed markets. Linke’s new role will include both onshore and offshore Indian markets, Japan and the Asia business managed out of Switzerland. He previously held roles including head of Asia Pacific alternative capital markets in Hong Kong. “We

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JULY 22, 2019

The funding round was led by LiveOak Venture Partners; debt came from Genesis Capital, Keystone Bank and others. In the Homeward model, done through an online platform, users who wish to sell their homes get credit upfront. Opendoor , for example, makes cash offers for homes, makes repairs and puts those homes back on the market.

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APRIL 11, 2023

National, March 30, 2023: BankBazaar.com , India’s leading fintech co-branded Credit Card platform and online provider of free Credit Scores, closed FY23 with net revenue of ₹160 crore. There is a tremendous opportunity for profitable and sustainable digital businesses to capture market share.”

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The National Retail Federation ’s annual convention may have come and gone but the sentiments, strategies and lessons learned from facing nearly a year of pandemic-led changes by some of the world’s largest merchants are going nowhere fast — especially when it comes to their embrace of increased digitalization.

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MARCH 10, 2020

In markets like Southeast Asia, high rates of credit-invisible, underbanked small businesses make filling the small business credit gap an even more difficult challenge. Traditional banks will require credit histories and collateral to underwrite a small business loan, both of which many SMBs in Southeast Asian nations lack.

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MAY 22, 2019

The online retailer has already been looking to raise capital at a valuation of about $2 billion, and the acquisition of ShopClues could help its funding efforts. Both companies already have a common investor: venture capital firm Nexus Venture Partners. As of 2018, Snapdeal had a market share of 1.9 percent.

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