Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Digital lending capabilities are quickly becoming table stakes, particularly when it comes to small business lending. However, banks should first consider their customers’ needs and the infrastructure and features needed in a lending platform before adopting a new digital strategy. Benefits of digital lending.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

marketplace lending company Funding Options is teaming up with Caxton FX to introduce a prepaid multi-currency payment card for small businesses (SMBs). The solution is designed to help small businesses manage spend while traveling across borders, the companies said in a press release on Thursday (Feb. ” U.K. ” U.K.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

The new hires are part of an initiative to add five new chief risk officers (CRO), one each for the specific fields of Commercial Banking, Consumer & Small Business Banking, Corporate & Investment Banking, and Wealth & Investment Management businesses, a press release states.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

But presentation materials that accompanied the results showed that of the reserve released in the quarter, $900 million came from the consumer side of the book, so to speak, and were released from home lending. Reserves were held flat on the card business, standing currently at $17.8 Card average loans stood at $141.2

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

As Amazon presses further into China to compete with rivals like Alibaba , a job posting on the Amazon website may have just revealed plans for the eCommerce conglomerate to extend its small business lending program into the country. Amazon first began lending to small businesses in 2015, beginning with the U.S., Japan and U.K.

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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. million round was led by investiere and Polytech Ventures, while Symbiotics and the 1to4 Foundation also participated.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Commercial cards remain only a fraction of the B2B payments space, but FinTech firms, banks and other financial service providers continue to develop new solutions aimed at boosting adoption. For companies like SmartEquip and Unified Payments Group , that means introducing new ways to lift the burden of suppliers accepting cards.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

With commercial cards an increasingly popular choice in the B2B payments space, industry innovators are exploring pockets of opportunity to drive adoption through mitigating friction. For others, commercial card innovation comes in the form of overcoming the adoption hurdle of a lack of supplier acceptance. InstaRem Expands BizPay.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

In the wake of the financial crisis, banks’ pullback from small- to medium-sized business (SMB) lending yielded a flood of technology-driven players stepping in to fill the SMB credit gap. It’s amazing how much of the industry still operates with fax — it’s expensive, and it’s wasteful.”. The Close Ties of Cash Flow and Funding.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Small business lending emerged as a common theme in this week’s B2B venture capital roundup, and it’s no surprise, considering the role small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) play in supporting their local economies. million round for India-based small business lending platform Aye Finance, the company recently revealed.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. Take payroll cards.

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Abrigo

MAY 22, 2024

Recent stats and dynamics of the small business lending market Understanding the small business lending landscape and potential efficiencies can help banks and credit unions grow their portfolios. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending. Record new business formation and a wider gap between U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

The big news in B2B FinTech investment this week came from Airbnb , which is bolstering its presence in the business travel market with new funding, while corporate card startup Brex also secured a prominent debt capital investment. Lyric plans to use the investment to expand its operations as it continues to focus on regulatory compliance.

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Abrigo

APRIL 22, 2024

Recent dynamics of the small business lending market A deep understanding of the small business lending landscape and potential efficiencies can help banks and credit unions grow their portfolios. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending. Record new business formation and a wider gap between U.S.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

You can’t develop lending expertise overnight. A three-year time horizon isn’t long enough if say you want to take your lending platform nationally such as specializing in lending on robotics. Bank management is hyper-focused on net interest margin. Over a ten or twenty-year horizon, very few of those decisions matter.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Think of banking and you might think of lending and deposits, where firms make money on the spread between what they pay savers and what they take in from borrowers. One area of (overlooked) potential lies with credit cards. It has a lot of compliance requirements, and there is an unsecured lending component to it.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

The letter says that in the future, those accounts will solely be operated under BBVA, but customers will be able to access their money normally until then. Being FDIC insured won't have any impact on deposits and Simple's app, cards and website will continue to work, the Talk Android report says.

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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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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

challenger bank Tandem has acquired Pariti, a money management app that has collected 95,000 users. We will continue developing and rolling out our app and credit card as planned, [now] with a little more spring in our step. When the deal is finalized, we’ll operate the whole business under the Tandem brand.”. banking market.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As we continue to focus on enabling digital payments beyond our traditional Corporate Cards, we are investing in solutions to improve the buyer and supplier experience and help solve common B2B payment-related pain points,” said Daniel Brachfeld , vice president for supply chain solutions at American Express. “As

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

It feels like 2014 again with the ongoing popularity of alternative lending startups. Earlier this week, reports emerged that some alternative lending and industry professionals are beginning to heighten their anxieties about incoming regulation, particularly as some ponder whether the U.S. Alternative Lending. MarketInvoice.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Goldman said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had created a Consumer and Wealth Management unit. That unit will include the company’s online lending platform, Marcus , and credit card business, the latter of which is done through a joint venture with Apple. That includes Marcus and the Apple Card.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Goldman said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had created a Consumer and Wealth Management unit. That unit will include the company’s online lending platform, Marcus , and credit card business, the latter of which is done through a joint venture with Apple. That includes Marcus and the Apple Card.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The 6-year-old who get his hands on Mom’s iPad and manages to rack up $16,000 worth of credit charges for online gaming. The teenager with a Fortnite habit who manages to clean out Dad’s checking account via the debit card linked to the gaming account. We’ve all heard the horror stories. We don't take that lightly.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The use of prepaid cards has exploded over the last decade or so — in 2003 consumers put less than $1 billion on prepaid cards annually, but by 2012 that figure had grown to $65 billion and by 2018 that figure is projected to reach as much as $121 billion. The user base of prepaid cards has grown significantly as well.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Carding shops offer bulk sales on compromised payment card data. Carding shops are underground marketplaces that traffic in compromised payment card data. These marketplaces facilitate the movement of compromised payment card data from hackers to fraudsters, often across faraway geographies. Fraud Prevention.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

Cardpay , based in Bengaluru, India, offers a spending management platform to corporations under the brand name “Grit.” The platform offers help with physical and virtual credit cards, invoice processing and early payments discounts, BusinessLine reports. “Payments-led lending is the new growth mantra for us. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Today in the payments news roundup, average interest rates on credit cards are approaching record levels. The founding members are supposed to pay $10 million each to back the digital currency project, and in doing so, commit to Libra operations. Credit Card Interest Rates Rise To Near-Record Levels. 14) in Switzerland.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 22, 2015

On the social aspect of banking, Banco Colpatria in Colombia offers credit cards to individuals using Lenddo’s social scoring. Galicia MOVE includes a savings account, a debit card and a credit card. Banks are certainly not playing hide and seek with P2P lending. What about banks? Change or die.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Sixty-one percent of small businesses said they use commercial credit cards , a year-over-year decrease from 2017’s 71 percent. At the same time, more than two-fifths of survey respondents agreed that cash flow management is a daily concern, while more millennials said it’s a concern compared to their older peers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

PYMNTS’ latest roundup finds investor interest for B2B eCommerce , small business banking, corporate card technology, cybersecurity and autonomous supply chain tech, but it was a ResTech startup that secured the most funding of the week, by a considerable margin. MaxWholesale.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

The companies noted that Oxbury, which secured its full banking license in early-2020 with plans for a full launch later this year, will focus its services on the agricultural food chain with lending and payments services. Five Star Bank Taps Corserv Card Tech. Surecomp Debuts as-a-Service Offering.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

But it was a Banking-as-a-Service company that led the roundup this time, with one startup looking to expand into Credit Cards-as-a-Service with its latest investment. The company also streamlines supplier onboarding, contract management and other workflows within the procure-to-pay space. million in new funding for U.K.-based

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Abrigo

JULY 5, 2020

Credit unions like Telhio Credit Union in Central Ohio had employees working around the clock to help with PPP loans, and they used an SBA lending solution that automated the origination process, as well as the forgiveness and administration phases. The SBA didn’t break out larger credit union PPP lending activity.)

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As we continue to focus on enabling digital payments beyond our traditional Corporate Cards, we are investing in solutions to improve the buyer and supplier experience and help solve common B2B payment-related pain points,” said Daniel Brachfeld , vice president for supply chain solutions at American Express. “As

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) face a perennial challenge in their day-to-day operations — convincing customers to use their products and services rather than a competitor’s. Banks can even harness external regulatory, trading and social media engagement data, all of which can be processed and analyzed to benefit their operations.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 4, 2024

Such as direct lending funds, and insurance companies. Shadow Banking refers to banking-like operations that take place outside of the mainstream banking industry. Shadow bank lending is similar to bank lending but is not subject to the same regulations, and compensating deposit balace requirements.

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