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

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

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

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

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 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. According to Nav ’s newly-appointed CEO Greg Ott , the current market sees an estimated $4 trillion in SMB debt origination each year.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This blog marks Part 1 of our Embedded Finance Blog Series and will introduce the overarching concept of embedded finance, setting us up to discuss embedded payments, embedded lending, and embedded insurance (all of which fall under the embedded finance umbrella) in future blogs. Use Cases . The Technology Behind Embedded Finance .

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

challenger FinTech Cashplus has hired a commercial card risk expert from American Express, reports this week said. Commercial Cards and Payments and before working at Amex, Duseja held a position at Accenture. According to reports Wednesday (Sept. 18), Cashplus announced Rahul Duseja will join the company as its credit director.

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PYMNTS

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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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

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The latest move took that rate, which is what is charged to banks as they lend to one another, to 2.25 Against that backdrop, as reported by CNBC , credit card rates are eyeing (but are not at) record highs. Rates on credit card debt have crossed the 17 percent mark, as measured by annual percentage rates, and are up markedly from 16.1

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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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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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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. Deposits generate the bulk of a bank’s value yet most banks spend little on deposit marketing and product design.

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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.”. The consumer credit market has huge potential — trillions and trillions of dollars — and I wanted to ride that winner. And disrupt Lending Club did, with its marketplace lending model, scores of imitators in the U.S.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 4, 2024

The Fed has paused for nearly a year now, and it was our experience in 2006-07 that bank cost of funds continued to increase as the market closed the delta between what someone could earn in a money market mutual fund and a bank account. But not until $1 trillion went from banking to money markets.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

JPMorgan Chase , aiming to get a bigger piece of the point of sale financing market, announced Wednesday (Feb. 27) that it is launching “My Chase Plan,” a tool that allows card customers to finance purchases of more than $500.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 6, 2021

According to the factual allegations in the OCFR’s Charge Letter : The Bank offers in-store retail credit financing as well as store-branded credit cards to Maryland consumers. Atlanticus/Fortiva performs all of the collections, servicing, payment and remittance operations in connection with the accounts.

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PYMNTS

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. Fortress Investment Group also took part in that deal.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

Biz2Credit is expanding its small business lending operations into a market without much experience with alternative finance. While India may not have the most robust alternative lending industry in the world, it’s the size of its SME population that’s attracting Biz2Credit, the company said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2016

The stock exchange and FX markets may have stabilized, but fallout in the wake of the Brexit vote continues. The latest victim is Virgin Money , which revealed this week that it won’t be moving forward with plans to begin lending to small and medium-sized businesses — for now.

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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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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. The company said it plans to use the investment to further build out its lending operations.

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

Afterpay does not perform a hard credit check on users, but it can still affect credit if users have a credit card as the form of payment connected to their Afterpay account or if they fail to pay back their loans. Although this is certainly expensive for merchants, it has proven to be a worthy investment.

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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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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

Banks then provide financing at that point in the business cycle, though instead of lending directly to the business, the money goes to the company’s supplier. It’s all about helping a company get its product to market faster, Xu said. “I analyze the entire operation,” he told the publication.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

While the current growth rate needs to be left to each bank based on their capital cost, market, and risk tolerance, the general guide is that growth should be in the 3% to 5% range for this year. In addition, they may consider focusing on these five critical areas: Improve Operating Leverage. Yeah, that was a mistake.

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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. Big Data analytics reached a market valuation of $29.87 Big Data significantly affects banks’ back-of-house operations as well as their customer-facing processes.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Things were a bit more active on the Amazon front, with a big infrastructure investment pushing its market cap back over the $1 trillion line, a new B2B financing partnership with Goldman Sachs potentially in the offing and its expanding stores and services menu. Market Cap Watch: Back to the Trillionaire Club With Logistic Investments.

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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. Half of SMBs using a business credit card borrow on those cards; one-quarter said they regularly do so. More than one-fifth aren’t sure what they will do in the next six months, though.

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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

MAY 31, 2019

As has been reported, Global Payments is the third largest merchant acquirer in the United States, while TSYS is the third largest card processor in the country. PayPal Hits $10B SMB Lending Milestone. Citi Said ‘Thanks, But No Thanks’ To The Apple Card. Visa CEO Throws Shade On Real-Time Payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

Unnamed sources have told reporters that Amazon is looking to expand its small business (SMB) financing operations via the rollout of a commercial card for SMBs. Amex is the largest issuer for small business cards in the U.S. billion on its card products. and Japan last year.

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