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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

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This week it was Minnesota, and then yesterday Walmart really got warmed up and announced the expansion of their new payments service in: Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington, D.C. Online lending .

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Military Lending Act

Independent Banker

New Military Lending Act regulations kick in next fall. Following a three-year study on predatory lending, the U.S. Department of Defense has now issued the final rule to implement the Military Lending Act. Credit card accounts are exempt from compliance until Oct. By Mary Thorson Wright. Beginning Oct.

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Lease-To-Own Services Make A Comeback With Overstock.com

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Overstock.com is no stranger to offering financial services — it already provides credit cards, lending, investments and insurance services to its customers. Marqeta is a card issuing and core processing platform, powering prepaid, debit and credit cards for commerce firms. Modern Takes On Lease-To-Own.

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B2B Investors Get Smart About Business Intelligence

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million with B2B startups this past week, and while investment targets were diverse (including B2B eCommerce and small business lending), the bulk of the funding landed at companies focused on enhancing businesses’ ability to assess their performance. Investors placed more than $136.5 The rundown of the latest funding rounds is below.

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Digital Disruption

Independent Banker

Meanwhile new competitors regularly emerge, including person-to-person facilitators such as digital wallet provider Venmo, crowd-funding loan provider Lending Club and real-time cryptocurrency settlement company Ripple. See “Closing the Gap” in the November 2015 issue, online at www.independentbanker.org.).

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June’s Top 12 Mobile Pay Moments

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While Apple Pay also recently launched in Singapore, Samsung Pay joins the region with its signature niche: the MST tech that makes Samsung Pay usable at virtually anywhere merchant credit cards are accepted. In the survey, 19 percent of respondents currently use online payment services like PayPal and Venmo. ” RIP CurrentC.

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CFPB settles with military base retailer and related companies for alleged unlawful debt collection practices

CFPB Monitor

Mishkin As part of this week’s flurry of enforcement-related announcements, the CFPB announced the settlement of a lawsuit filed jointly with the Attorneys General of North Carolina and Virginia against Freedom Stores, Inc.