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JULY 4, 2018

As a consumer lending category with the fastest growth, outstanding balances for personal loans jumped by about 18 percent to $120 billion in the first quarter. A lot of credit goes to the FinTech lenders for reinvigorating a loan category that’s been around forever,” Jason Laky, TransUnion ’s consumer-lending business lead, told Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Instant payments are gaining in international markets. Card networks like Mastercard are seeking ways to bring faster disbursements to workers that may be living paycheck to paycheck or are reliant on gig or freelance work. Consumers are fairly used to applying for everything from a personal to a business loan online.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Mortgages and Credit Cards and Student Debt….

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MAY 31, 2019

The 2008 financial crisis gave rise to the alternative lending market as a result of a massive gap in available capital, especially for small businesses and startups. The market’s creation was a spark that ignited a slew of disruptive changes for the small business financial services space. Earlier this month, the U.S.

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JULY 27, 2018

watchdog in charge of investor oversight proposed tough new regulations regarding peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms, in a bid to help consumers wade through the new landscape, according to a report by Reuters. The environment for P2P lending has recently come under scrutiny.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Today in B2B payments, Wells Fargo rolls out its virtual card services for B2B payments, while PayPal Ventures makes a B2B payments investment. 19) announced in a press release that it is adding a new solution to its WellsOne Virtual Commercial Card , enabling business customers to digitally pay invoices to suppliers and others.

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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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AUGUST 6, 2018

China has ordered a lockdown of Beijing’s financial district Monday (August 6) to prevent individuals from protesting a crisis in the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending marketplace. Police were checking identity cards of anyone entering the area to prevent organized demonstrations by groups of investors that lost money as P2P lenders went under.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has, as finews.asia reported this past week, amended its credit risk management guidelines in a way that seeks to boost the embrace of analytics when lending to smaller firms. Cash invested on the platform, said the company, stands at $2.7

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

14), Wells Fargo called out strong mortgage banking fees, higher equity markets and declining sequential charge-offs as positives for the period. “As On the plus side, Wells Fargo reported that card fees rose to $912 million in the third period, up from $797 million in second quarter. Debit card point-of-sale purchase volume hit $102.9

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2017

Online and alternative lending is satiating consumers’ need for speed when it comes to accessing finance. But, while an online loan decision may be near-instant, borrowers may still have to wait several days to actually see the money — and what’s the good in news like that? It’s a no-brainer,” said Edwards.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Australia is now the Asia Pacific region’s second-largest alternative finance market, largely due to a favorable regulatory climate, according to new KPMG analysis. The Australian market is quickly becoming a hotbed of alternative lending , and new analysis from KPMG suggests it has risen up in the ranks.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

But bank earnings are showing that loan loss reserves were more conservative than needed (at least for now) and that in some cases, consumer spending and card activity might be emerging from the most recent depths spurred by the pandemic. At least in terms of third-quarter results that gave insight into card spending and charge-offs.

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JUNE 24, 2016

But Facebook got the jump on the news cycle this week with the big news that it was opening up Facebook Canvas for retailers and other marketers on the site, as opposed to just advertis e rs. Online to offline coming to Walmart near you, and we mean that sincerely. Online lending . Costco Card. Tech is back.

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AUGUST 18, 2019

Citi Australia wants in on the burgeoning buy now, pay later market and is launching a new installment loan product with Kogan that will swap flat rates for interest rates, The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Sunday (Aug. Credit card giant Visa said in June it was also planning to get into the buy now, pay later landscape.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2017

Experian, the credit rating company, is getting into the biometrics market, inking a deal with technology company BioCatch to use behavioral biometrics to fight fraud. According to a report in Reuters , the partnership is aimed at enabling customers to identify fraudsters applying for credit cards and lending products online.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

The problem, Abramowitz noted, is that retail in the last decade has moved online and into multi-channel – and private-label cards have not really made the necessary transformation to keep pace. This isn’t the case for retailers born in the online world, Abramowitz contends.

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MARCH 28, 2019

ICBA Bancard, the payments services subsidiary of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), announced a new partnership with MK Decision (MK) for its online loan-origination system. Our mission — to stimulate local borrowing and local lending — is well aligned with ICBA Bancard and its community bank clients.

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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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Abrigo

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Both established markets and emerging vendors on the Dark Web have been actively promoting fresh inventory and steep discounts for holiday sales, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Carding shops offer bulk sales on compromised payment card data. Another popular category in the underground is account markets.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

EXCLUSIVE — With government-backed initiatives and a finite business of copper export, Nathan Lustig, co-founder and managing partner at Magma Partners, saw huge potential in the Chilean fintech market. Additionally, […].

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AUGUST 6, 2020

As bank-FinTech collaborations evolve, more traditional financial institutions (FIs) are not only implementing services and technologies developed by FinTech partners, but they’re also lending their own expertise to augment FinTech solutions. Morgan Enhances Virtual Cards Via Marqeta. Plaid, Galileo Boost ACH Efficiency.

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JULY 14, 2020

That alternative method of paying for purchases “on credit” got a boost with news this week that Visa Installments , a new point-of-sale (POS) credit solution, is being rolled out in pilot markets across the U.S. This follows a pilot rollout in Russia last month. Fast and Furious BNPL Action. The account comes with 1.30

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Though commercial card innovation has recently hit an acceleration point, there is still plenty of room for progress. Power took one key friction point of the small business (SMB) credit card market to task. Power Director of Wealth and Lending Intelligence John Cabell in a statement. Walmart Boosts Cards For India SMBs.

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

When online shopping, if a retailer has a partnership with a BNPL platform, the customer can choose it as their payment method when placing their order at checkout. Using Afterpay, however, made it Future Me’s problem and let me have everything I needed and wanted at that moment and avoid racking up my credit card balance.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2016

The CFPB has officially opened up its online forum for accepting consumer complaints geared at those who have experienced issues from online marketplace lenders. The bureau also released a bulletin about the marketplace lending industry and provided tips for consumers who are looking for alternative financing options.

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PYMNTS

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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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Barry Rodrigues, CEO of cards and payments at Barclaycard International, told Financial Times that the new offering would “leverage Barclays’ U.K. online bank, which already offers credit cards, savings and loans to 13 million customers. We expect to have that in the market next year.”. Barclays is ready to offer U.S.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

Affirm, the company started by PayPal Cofounder Max Levchin to deliver financial products to consumers, announced last week it has obtained a $100 million lending facility from Morgan Stanley. Goldman Sachs last week announced Marcus by Goldman Sachs , an online platform offering unsecured personal loans to consumers.

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MAY 14, 2018

Taking a page from Goldman Sachs’ book, Morgan Stanley is beginning to lend to FinTech startups in Brazil as it seeks more of a return on its investments. Morgan Stanley’s move comes at a time when the Brazil FinTech market is exploding. percent each year, noted the report.

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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. “This includes analytics-based lending, peer-to-peer lending and various other variants.”

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.” — John Collison.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2017

The alternative lending industry continues to scoff at doubters, and the latest B2B venture capital roundup suggests confidence is growing in the space — and not just in the U.S., Last month was a booming time for alternative lending when top names, like BlueVine, scored hefty sums. Alt-Lending. and across Europe and the U.K.

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Perficient

JANUARY 12, 2021

Smaller financial institutions will have to be more innovative and rely on third parties and as-a-service based solutions to specifically address the needs of the niche market they are servicing. Small businesses remain an untapped marketing opportunity for the financial services industry. Small Business Innovation. reached 31.7

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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.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Mastercard Gets Nod To Join China’s $27T Payments Market. 11 to set up a bank card clearing business, providing it with access to a $27 trillion payments market. The People’s Bank of China said it has approved an application by Mastercard’s Chinese joint venture to run a bank card clearing business in the nation.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

As digital identities fast become a part of everyday life, the identity verification market is expected to reach $12.8 Technology providers are exploring a range of solutions to seamlessly verify customers’ identities, with the biometrics market projected to reach more than $59 billion by 2025. billion by 2024. About The Tracker.

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