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SMB Alt-Lending Gears Up For Another Industry Shakeup

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It also opened the door for a boom of FinTech innovation and a flood of alternative lenders targeting the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) segment. “It comes in waves, there’s no doubt about it,” he said about the alt-lending boom. ” A Banking Pullback? The More Things Change.

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Why Augmented Reality is Crucial to Improving the Ecommerce Customer Experience

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We’ve typically seen that this lends itself to focus on areas such as ratings, reviews, and online price shopping, but trends are now showing there are other effective methods for online, as shoppers want to engage with products both at an experiential level and to ensure the best fit for their needs. So, is this the year of AR breakthrough?

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The BaaS Gold Rush is On

Gonzobanker

As the collision of traditional banking and fintech continues, there will be more competition and more innovative banking solutions due to the increasing number of actors seeking defensible niches and operational scale. As the gold rush period shakes out, Cornerstone predicts only one in five banks will have a strong enough I.T.

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It’s Dreadful Being a Buyer of Bank Technology

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Tech companies trying to support a bank stack have no easy task. Across requirements in payments, delivery channels, lending, diverse business lines and regulatory requirements, providing solutions to banks is definitely a “triple diamond run” when it comes to complexity and degree of difficulty. Mandate #3: Build a next-gen I.T.

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Temenos to Acquire Kony: So What?

Gonzobanker

While other banks interested in the T24 core are waiting to see how the Commerce Bank implementation goes, the company continues to make inroads through the Infinity suite (which mashes up the artists formerly known as Akcelerant and Avoka), tying together origination and onboarding with process all the way through to collections.

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SoFi Unveils Digital Wealth Management Platform, SoFi Wealth

Fintech Labs Insights

Less than a month after announcing its new $105 million SoFi Prime Income Fund to help raise funds to issue loans, online lending innovator SoFi is making headlines again with the launch of SoFi Wealth. The new initiative, the company’s first digital wealth management offering, will allow investors in the U.S.

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Calling All Startups: Reinvent the Mortgage Process (Please)

Fintech Labs Insights

The poster child for bad UX was the denial of a mortgage to previous Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke last year. That’s not nearly the amount of change I expected in this vital area, but the re-regulation of the mortgage industry, thanks to the housing debacle of 2008 to 2012, has taken it’s toll on innovations.