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Goldman Sachs To Acquire Credit Card Company Final

Bank Innovation

Oakland-based Final is a credit card service, which announced that it would close its card portfolio back in December. Goldman Sachs has agreed to purchase fintech startup firm Final, as a part of its efforts to expand in retail-banking products. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Marqeta eyes credit products on the heels of $150M funding

BankInovation

Fresh off a $150 million funding round announced Thursday, Marqeta is developing a credit card product. The Oakland, Calif.-based based startup raised the funds as an extension of its Series E from an undisclosed investor, more than doubling its valuation to $4.3 billion, up from $1.9 billion last year. “We

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How A Bank And A FinTechs Are Jointly Cracking The Code On Financial Inclusion

PYMNTS

Of course, banks have to be run with safety and soundness to protect those deposits, but they also have myriad public mandates, like fair lending, anti-money laundering and customer privacy. The teams at FinTech startup LendUp and Oakland-based Beneficial State Bank think very differently about that relationship. percent to 29.99

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

Hughes, Senior Vice President of Card Marketing, Discover Financial Services, Deerfield, Ill. Kukla, Senior Vice President, Center for Responsible Lending, Durham, N.C. O’Connor, Senior Vice President, Lending and Operations, Community America Credit Union, Shawnee Mission, Kan. Christopher G.

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Fintech Startup of the Week: Challenger Jiko Buys a $100M U.S. Bank

Fintech Labs Insights

And more recently, Lending Club has a $185M acquisition of Radius Bank pending, though the lender’s $80M Q2 loss is not going to help ease regulators’ concerns. Money deposited into Jiko, which is essentially a brokerage account with a debit card, will go into T-bills. There have been just two examples in the last 20 years.

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Fintech Fundings: 9 Companies Raise $73 Million Week Ending Dec 31

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Oakland, California. HQ: Trieste, Tags: SMB, credit, lending, trade financing, underwriting, commerce. Tags: Enterprise, payments, mobile, security, Wocket Wallet (product name), hardware, credit/debit cards. Latest round: $46 million Series A. Total raised: $46 million. HQ: Bejing, China. Source: Crunchbase. million debt).

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Fintech Fundings: 114 Companies Raised $7.3 Billion in April

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Oakland, California. Marketplace small business lending platform. Tags: SMB, merchants, security, payments, POS, credit/debit cards, authorization. Fintech deals by size from 23 April to 29 April 2016: Mosaic. Marketplace lender for residential solor projects. Latest round: $200 million Private Equity. Total raised: $224.9