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FinTech Jeff Aims To Boost Lending To The Underbanked In South Asia

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With no credit scores, limited financial transaction histories, and a huge amount of people who don’t even have a bank account, lending money in Vietnam is no simple task. While most financiers would run from an environment like that, CEO Toms Niparts of Jeff , an app-based lending platform based in Latvia, saw it as a huge opportunity. “We

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Alt-Lenders Vow Transparency After Prospa Backlash

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Australia’s alternative finance community has vowed to heighten transparency following criticism over Prospa ‘s high interest rates, which caused the FinTech to scrap its initial public offering (IPO). Lending platforms must also provide compliant mediation services and ensure compliant draft contracts.

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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. Those shocks included LendingClub come-apart as the spark and increasingly interested looking pack of regulators coming to call. Marketplace lending, in short, did not need more fireworks.

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How $12 Billion in Fintech SPAC capital is teaching us about the economics of target unicorns

Lex Sokolin

The average size is about $300 million, and quite a few are focusing on Fintech and financial services. Here, for comparison, is similar data on venture capital funds?—?printing despite creating the same outcome of a regulated public company. Let’s narrow down the story to Fintech, using data from Spactrack.

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How $12 Billion in Fintech SPAC capital is teaching us about the economics of target unicorns

Lex Sokolin

The average size is about $300 million, and quite a few are focusing on Fintech and financial services. Here, for comparison, is similar data on venture capital funds?—?printing despite creating the same outcome of a regulated public company. Let’s narrow down the story to Fintech, using data from Spactrack.

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A Year in Financial Models, Fintech Valuations, Super Apps, Big Tech, Decentralized Finance, the…

Lex Sokolin

A Year in Financial Models, Fintech Valuations, Super Apps, Big Tech, Decentralized Finance, the Multiverse, Pandemic, Revolution, Crypto Art, and the Nature of the Universe Hi Fintech futurists — You should be out partying! Is Ant Financial the best Fintech in the world? Or rather, you should be inside, partying. Runner up?—?

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A Year in Financial Models, Fintech Valuations, Super Apps, Big Tech, Decentralized Finance, the…

Lex Sokolin

A Year in Financial Models, Fintech Valuations, Super Apps, Big Tech, Decentralized Finance, the Multiverse, Pandemic, Revolution, Crypto Art, and the Nature of the Universe Hi Fintech futurists — You should be out partying! Is Ant Financial the best Fintech in the world? Or rather, you should be inside, partying. Runner up?—?

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