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

PYMNTS

Utah-based FuturePay has consistently appeared in PYMNTS’ top 5 alternative credit apps, with its offer of flexible monthly payments for consumers and up-front settlement for merchants. Silicon Valley FinTech Affirm is also a regular in the top 5 this year. The account comes with 1.30

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Subscription Business Models Lead B2B VC Funding

PYMNTS

This week saw an impressive $324 million in combined funding for a range of B2B FinTechs and other solution providers, including alternative lenders looking to support small businesses as they manage working capital instability. Allica Bank, a FinTech in the process of building a small business challenger bank, raised more than $33.6

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

PYMNTS

All industrial banks are chartered in Utah – and there are only 17 such charters issued, 15 of which are currently active. And while much has been quiet on the ILC front ever since, as of 2017, two big FinTechs made them very visible again: Sofi in June and Square in mid-September. Industrial banks are not subject to BHA.

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NY federal district court deals blow to OCC fintech charter

CFPB Monitor

520(e)(1), which contains a sentence that directly justifies the SPNB charter: “A special purpose bank that conducts activities other than fiduciary activities must conduct at least one of the following three core banking functions: Receiving deposits; paying checks; or lending money.” Supreme Court’s 1984 decision Chevron U.S.A.

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California Department Of Financial Protection And Innovation files cross-complaint alleging OppFi is “true lender” on loans made though bank partnership and seeking penalties of “at least $100 million”

CFPB Monitor

At the end of last year, we completed a months-long project in updating and expanding a 2017 White Paper addressing bank-model lending—programs involving partnerships between banks (or savings associations) and fintech or other nonbank companies in the interstate delivery of loans.

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Funding Lands T&E Firm TripActions $4B Valuation

PYMNTS

It wasn’t the only corporate T&E firm that secured new funding, though, nor was it the only B2B FinTech that raised venture capital. Reports in KFGO did not disclose the nature or value of the investment, though noted it is part of HSBC’s broader effort to invest in FinTech. TripActions.

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Marketplace Lending Power 20 List Honors 8 Alums

Fintech Labs Insights

This week, small business lender Mayava Capital honored the most influential people in small business lending in its Marketplace Lending Power 20 awards. The recipients in order of rank: Lending Club CEO & Founder, Renaud Laplanche. Added a small business lending option in 2015. Took the company public in 2014.

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