article thumbnail

Amazon Uses Its Machine Learning Tools for Lending

Bank Innovation

When talking about machine learning algorithms, Amazon definitely comes to mind. Turns out, Amazon’s lesser known operation – small business lending – is also powered by machine learning, Bank Innovation has learned. […].

Lending 373
article thumbnail

Anticipation For Amazon’s SMB Lending Disruption Grows

PYMNTS

It was the (initially) small FinTech startups that delivered a collective shakeup to the small business (SMB) lending industry. Their next target could be small business lending, and according to some experts, it’s fast approaching the market. When I look at it from a U.S. New reports in Bloomberg on Wednesday (Oct.

Lending 109
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

BIS Sees Boons, Risks As FinTech Credit Gains Traction

PYMNTS

When it comes to FinTech firms and lending, might it be that what we don’t know could hurt us? Viewed from high levels, the activity itself (lending, that is), has taken off in some of the countries one might expect, marked by relatively higher incomes, and where financial regulation might be relatively less stringent.

Fintech 172
article thumbnail

Chinese P2P Lender Blames Gov’t For Growth Decline

PYMNTS

However, though the company expanded quickly in 2017 and 2018, Beijing’s crackdown on certain lending practices forced Dianrong to decline in the second half of 2018. We hope regulators can give the industry a clear and definite timetable, and give guidance and a ray of hope for companies that stick to compliance,” Guo said.

article thumbnail

Is The Great Contraction Coming Soon To Alt Lending?

PYMNTS

And that story is currently being acted out over in the online lending segment, as the recent high speed, multi-phase come apart over at Lending Club has markedly destabilized the entire segment. Things aren’t exactly looking better in the post-Lending Club, increased interest rate era. ” Continuing Troubling Signs.

Lending 100
article thumbnail

Brex: Market volatility not ‘doomsday’ for tech funding

Bank Innovation

Within our sector, we definitely may have a slowdown, but it’s not doomsday, where nobody […]. Brex, a corporate card and financial product startup that has raised $315 million in equity and reached a reported valuation of $2.6

Marketing 199
article thumbnail

FinTechs Press States To Streamline Regulations

PYMNTS

The panel, which traces its genesis back two years, is comprised of two groups, focused separately on lending and payments, and is in turn part of CSBS Vision 2020. “As We had some robust discussions with them about community banking and innovation. Our FinTech industry advisory panel did include a few community banks.