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SMB Alt-Lending Gears Up For Another Industry Shakeup

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and other nations around the world as a result of the global pandemic continues to draw comparisons to the 2008 financial crisis — so it’s only natural that analysts may turn to the past in an effort to predict what could lie ahead. “It comes in waves, there’s no doubt about it,” he said about the alt-lending boom.

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Tide Revamps SMB Overdraft, Card Offerings With Mambu

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Cloud banking platform Mambu will help business banking platform Tide expand its services , including innovations in releasing larger overdrafts, credit cards and invoice financing, according to a press release from Mambu. Tide especially wants to use the partnership to focus on bolstering small and medium-sided businesses (SMBs) in the U.K.

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For UK’s SME Lending, Looking Toward Tech For A Boost

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That’s the opinion of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which earlier this week said technology would be one of the underpinnings of getting lending to increase to SMEs, a group that would naturally benefit from improved access to capital. Simply put, most SME executives do not do much in the way of comparison shopping for loans.

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From Bad To Worse, Marketplace Lending And The Brexit

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Which under normal circumstances is pretty good – but they kind of pale in comparison to the global display of metaphorical fireworks. A few years ago marketplace-based online lending was being hailed as the the signature innovation that was going to upend tradditional bank based lending for consumers and small businesses everywhere.

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The Massive Opportunity For Insurance Tech In Indonesia

CB Insights

GET THE 106-PAGE FINTECH TRENDS REPORT. Download the free report to learn about the biggest trends from fintech in 2018 and ones to watch for 2019. Two that are already seeing lots of activity are payments and lending. Meanwhile, alternative lending is also seeing strong growth, with P2P fintech platforms distributing $1.4B

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The Future According To SoftBank

CB Insights

The fintech sector represents the second-most frequent investment target for SoftBank in 2021, with 26 fintech companies garnering deals. . A number of SoftBank’s fintech portfolio companies are focused on providing financial services for enterprises. Konfio , for instance, provides business credit and lending.

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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $220 Million Week Ending March 25

Fintech Labs Insights

For the 12th consecutive week, there were 20+ fintech fundings worldwide. The number of deals was inflated somewhat by the six new fintech companies launched at YC’s demo day that we had not previously covered. Here are the fintech deals by size from 19 March to 25 March 2016: Open Lending. Total dollars raised, $6.3

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