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Small Business Lending Is Crucial in Fighting the Deposit Wars

Gonzobanker

Currently, these businesses are finding funding sources such as Small Business Administration loans, equipment financing loans, or other lines of credit from fintechs and niche players in the market like American Express, PayPal, Mercury, Blue Vine and OnDeck. According to Cornerstone analysis, roughly 50% of U.S.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. Marketplace Lending. Honesty is the best policy.

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Fed Finds Biz Lending Swell Continues, But There’s A Downside

PYMNTS

Traditional institutions are picking up steam in their efforts to collaborate with alternative financiers and FinTech firms, largely viewed as a way to spin the competition into allies and upgrade their lending services without the burden of in-house R&D. However, the Federal Reserve ‘s latest analysis of the U.S.

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Small, Early-Stage Funding Rounds Dominate B2B FinTech

PYMNTS

It’s certainly not the largest funding round the B2B FinTech industry has seen. Indeed, the last two weeks were dominated by small, early-stage investments staggered across a variety of industries, from T&E to alternative lending to B2B eCommerce. Alternative Lending. with an $18 million investment. Numberz.in.

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Africa FinTech Leads This Week’s B2B Investments, Breaks Record

PYMNTS

million in the largest investment round ever for a FinTech that operates exclusively in the continent. According to reports, Cellulant’s funding is the largest for an Africa-only FinTech. Find out who raised the money, and other winners of this week’s B2B venture capital roundup, below. Small Business Banking. Blockchain.

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The ICBA 22/23 executive committee is all in

Independent Banker

We must also keep our focus on protecting the 2017 tax cuts and, as always, monitoring and confronting credit union overreach. Lucas White: We need to continue to differentiate community banks and educate policymakers on why tiered and proportionate regulation is necessary. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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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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