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BNPL Firm Sezzle Allies With Ally Lending To Expand Loan Options

PYMNTS

The FinTech Sezzle has struck up a partnership with Ally Lendin g, a digital financial services company. This will allow the Minneapolis-based Sezzle to offer more long-term loans. We empathize with the economic situation millions of Americans now face," said Hans Zandhuis , president of Ally Lending.

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Call It Alt-Credit Or POS Lending, ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Just Got Bigger

PYMNTS

Silicon Valley FinTech Affirm is also a regular in the top 5 this year. In addition to its core POS lending business, Affirm branched out into financial services in June, debuting a high-yield savings account called Affirm Savings. The account comes with 1.30 Leveraging Risk the Right Way.

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Sezzle Names Former PayPal Exec To Lead Sales

PYMNTS

Sezzle , the Minneapolis-based installment-based payments platform, has announced the appointment of Reid Bork to its leadership team. In February, the four-year-old FinTech startup announced it had topped one million customers. In January, Sezzle was denied a crucial lending license from California.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

A few years ago, very few people would have guessed that tens of billions of dollars would be invested in fintech vendors and solutions annually – except it happened. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Best Fintech Acquisition by a Bank. Fintech Acquiring Bank.

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Ballard Spahr Submits Comment Letter to OCC in Support of Proposed True Lender Rule

CFPB Monitor

Our letter draws on Ballard Spahr’s two-plus decades of experience in representing banks and savings associations (“Banks”) in establishing lending programs (“Bank-Agent Programs”) where a Bank obtains substantial assistance from a fintech or other non-Bank company (an “Agent”) to offer Bank loans to consumers or small businesses.

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Top 63 Online Digital Banks for U.S. Consumers (Nov 2023)

Fintech Labs Insights

Leading Digital Consumer Banks (United States)* ranked by our FAB score (Fintech Attention Barometer**) Company FAB Score** Founded HQ Web Visits (Oct ’23) TrustPilot Score TrustPilot Reviews Funding ($M) 1 Wise (Transferwise) 10581 2011 London 38,100,000 4.2 Consumers (Nov 2023) first appeared on Fintech Labs SMB Center.

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Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $460 Million Week Ending April 1

Fintech Labs Insights

Here are the fintech deals by size from 26 March to 1 April 2016: Ceridian. HQ: Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tags: Consumer, lending, deposits, loans, payments, banking, underbanked, non-banked. Bluefin Payments received $6 million to expand its secure payment system. Stratumn grabbed $670,000 for its blockchain services. LoanLogics.