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How Relationship Lending & A Transaction-Oriented Focus Can Win More Business Loans

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Personalized Touch with Efficient Service Can Boost Lending Banks and credit unions can boost business lending by combining a relationship focus with transaction-oriented processing. . This competition can only increase as the lending landscape continues to shift.

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Fed Casting Wary Eye On FinTech Firms’ Infrastructure Access?

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As FinTechs eye growth, and look to gain scale by providing more “mainstream” financial services, might those plans hit a speed bump when it comes to the infrastructure needed to bring products to the masses? Those regulators state that such services can be brought to thus-far underserved areas, and might boost lending to small businesses.

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The math behind small business lending: Problems & possibilities for banks & credit unions

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Recent dynamics of the small business lending market A deep understanding of the small business lending landscape and potential efficiencies can help banks and credit unions grow their portfolios. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending. Record new business formation and a wider gap between U.S.

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Fintech Fundings: 9 Companies Raise $73 Million Week Ending Dec 31

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The year ends with a total of about $19 billion invested into private fintech companies (includes debt and equity). It is unlikely we’ll see that much in 2016, but the fintech sector is vast, and there are fascinating opportunities for newcomers and existing brands alike. Louis, Missouri. Person-to-person lender .

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Fintech Fundings: 12 Companies Raise $240 million Week Ending June 25

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And there are few fintech success stories bigger than 2008 alum, Credit Karma , which scored $175 million this week at a reported $3.5 That makes the credit score provider the second most valuable alum (after Lending Club , currently trading at $6 billion). So far this year, fintech has attracted $7.9 Louis, Missouri.

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Fintech Fundings: 30 Companies Raise $390 Million Week Ending May 13

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Fintech deals by size from May 7 to 13, 2016: Avant (AvantCredit UK). Louis, Missouri. Tags: SMB, P2P lending, crowdfunding, commercial loans, person-to-person, credit, underwriting, investing. Consumer alt-lender. Latest round: $188 million Debt (for AvantCredit UK). Total raised: $1.92 billion ($654 million Equity, $1.26

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The $70K Dent The Financial Crisis Put In The US Consumer’s Pocketbook

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Adding to the fun — consumers born in the 1980s to 1990s (aka millennials) that are widely counted as the future of economy — carry the highest debt load of any generation according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. population — fare much worse.

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