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Metro Bank Links With ezbob For Same-Day SMB Loans

PYMNTS

To provide a digital lending offering for small business clients, Metro Bank has collaborated with banking software provider ezbob. Metro Bank Chief Commercial Officer Paul Riseborough said, according to reports, “We know quick, reliable access to finance is crucial for small businesses to seize opportunities to grow.

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Consumer Lending: Should Banks Do It?

Jeff For Banks

When I first read Standards Needed for Safe, Small Installment Loans from Banks, Credit Unions by the Pew Charitable Trusts that encouraged financial institutions to get back into small ticket consumer lending, I thought “what are they nuts!” So why would banks expand small-ticket, unsecured personal lending? Real estate secured.

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High-Profile — But Secretive — Funding For B2B FinTechs

PYMNTS

While Khanna added that it’s “hard to say” whether venture capital funding is getting easier for startups, there is evidence that FinTech — and, specifically, B2B FinTech — is headed for a solid year. Alt-Lending. The Asia-Pacific region reigned again with two deals in Australia and Singapore, while the U.K. and the U.S.

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Disruptor UK Bank Atom Raises £50M

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Atom was co-founded by Anthony Thomson, who is responsible for Metro Bank, one of the first newer banks to challenge legacy banks in the country. Atom said that lending to both businesses and homeowners was up 76 percent in the last year. Atom said that lending to both businesses and homeowners was up 76 percent in the last year.

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Disruptor UK Bank Atom Raises £50M

PYMNTS

Atom was co-founded by Anthony Thomson, who is responsible for Metro Bank, one of the first newer banks to challenge legacy banks in the country. Atom said that lending to both businesses and homeowners was up 76 percent in the last year. Atom said that lending to both businesses and homeowners was up 76 percent in the last year.

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P2P Lending Meets High Street Banking as Metro Bank Partners to Lend Via Zopa

Fintech Labs Insights

Great Britain’s first P2P lender Zopa has teamed up with Metro Bank to combine P2P lending with “high street banking.” ” The first-of-its-kind deal makes Metro Bank the first bank in Great Britain to lend via a P2P platform. Metro Bank will lend customer deposits through the platform.

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Scottsdale Community Bank: Making microloans

Independent Banker

George Weisz, Scottsdale Community Bank But for all its embrace of technology, the community bank took its inspiration for an innovative lending program from an old-school tradition: kids’ lemonade stands. We are changing the face of business banking in Arizona by combining cutting-edge fintech technology with true relationship banking.”