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No Credit Cards for Goldman Sachs Consumer Lending Arm Marcus… Yet

Bank Innovation

Marcus, the consumer lending arm for Goldman Sachs, wants to become the one-stop shop for many of your financial matters, except for one: credit cards — at least for now. “Our fundamental thinking on the credit card space is that there is a lot of innovation that is required.

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Lending Startup Upgrade Opens Personal Credit Line, Shares Plan for Mobile App

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE— Lending startup Upgrade is opening a new personal credit line today, designed to give customers all of the benefits of credit with none of its flaws. The product is essentially a cross between a typically credit card and a traditional personal loan, Renaud Laplanche, company CEO and c0-founder, told Bank Innovation.

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How mobile wallets keep propping up plastic (or metal) cards

Payments Source

The modern mobile wallet no longer uses a card as a crutch. Instead, it sees it as an additional product that can add revenue from interchange, lending and loyalty.

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Mobile Order-Ahead Sector Goes All-In On AI

PYMNTS

Artificial intelligence (AI) in mobile food ordering: tantalizing. As the Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker® states, “AI can be leveraged to analyze and tally credit card transactions similar to how banking transactions are examined. Advanced AI Makes Systems Smarter. Catering to Individual Tastes at Scale.

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Fed Bets Trillions In SMB Lending That Consumers Will Return

PYMNTS

A quick recovery may be in the cards. Federal Reserve said that it had launched a multi-trillion dollar lending program that targets smaller businesses, and in a broadened salvo, targets local governments, too. The Fed program is focused on lending. But so might a “false start.”. Thursday morning, the U.S.

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Q4 Earnings Reports Show Mobile Banking’s Surge

PYMNTS

One common theme amid bank earnings — beyond lofty trading revenues gleaned from Wall Street — has been the increased uptake of mobile banking. Stats from banks, pretty much across the board, have given evidence that consumers have been pivoting to their mobile devices to attend to their everyday financial needs. million individuals.

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Commercial Card Innovation Puts SMBs In The Spotlight

PYMNTS

Smaller companies were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to new cards designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). American Express, Amazon Rollout Card For UK SMBs. American Express rolled out co-branded cards with Amazon for British SMBs.

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