CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I am pleased to share with our blog readers that Kristen Larson, an attorney with almost two decades of in-house experience advising midsized and large national banks on financial services matters, has joined Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group. She is resident in the firm’s Minneapolis office.

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Cisco

JUNE 7, 2022

In between these events, a different crisis began in the US sub-prime lending market. It also put an even greater emphasis on cyber risk management within institutions and financial regulatory agencies. Ransomware groups will continue to professionalize. Regulatory Agencies Step Up. Zero-day vulnerabilities will increase.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Some of the largest global financial institutions are taking steps further into Mexico’s small business lending and finance space, the result of heightened competitive pressure imposed by FinTechs and alternative lenders in the market, reports in the Wall Street Journal said Thursday (March 14). ”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Swedish peer-to-peer (P2P) lending upstart Lendify has reportedly secured $115 million of funding, while international trade platform Contour has teamed with information technology (IT) solutions firm Mphasis. Ant Group Moves Ahead With $35B IPO After China's OK.

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Abrigo

MAY 10, 2021

You might also like this Aite Group report on LOS vendors. Takeaway 2 Process management features of a loan origination system help manage the workflow, from analysis through closing. Takeaway 3 Aite Group assessed client references to evaluate vendors of loan origination systems and important features.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 17, 2024

As we pointed out, bank management needs to understand how a bank creates franchise value, and one way is to sell more profitable products to more profitable customers. Through this understanding of profitability and productivity, bank managers can set better strategies and tactics plus start to optimize the allocation of capital.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

has announced the launch of a venture banking and lending business to provide debt capital financing and commercial banking solutions to growth companies and their investors. Stifel offers senior secured loans up to $40 million for working capital and growth capital needs. Stifel Financial Corp.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

National Australia Bank (NAB) has chosen Eedenbull to integrate its payment and spend management technology for SMB customers. NAB will add Eedenbull’s Q Business platform to its offering to help SMBs track and manage spend, as well as to automate compliance controls. Absa Group Collabs With Surecomp. BNL Goes Live With Tink.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

An alternative lending conglomerate based in the U.K. just secured more than $97 million through an initial public offering. The companies were grouped together between 2014 and 2017 after investments and acquisitions by Arrowgrass Master Fund Ltd., reports noted.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

In the early days of online lending, the big appeal was access to funds for potential borrowers with few, if any, options for securing capital. The move comes in the face of growing evidence that the loans they have sold and secured have not quite performed up to par. The Coming Risk Assessment Reset.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Offering digital lending isn’t about the bells and whistles. started developing its digital lending platform about three years ago—and the bank is really glad it did. “I’m Community bankers are increasingly recognizing that the future of digital lending is here. Illustration by Out of the box/Stocksy. By Beth Mattson-Teig.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Treasury management provider Dragonfly Financial Technologies launched independently from an ACI Worldwide sale. Alkami partnered with Clinc for conversational AI, Atomic for direct deposit switching and FINBOA for payment dispute management. Credit union lending platform Clutch partnered with Zest.ai for automated underwriting.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 27, 2022

Creditas , a digital lending platform, has raised $260M in a Series F round that drew participation from SoftBank Group, VEF, Fidelity Investments, Lightrock, and Wellington Management, among others. Its credit portfolio under management grew from $189.3M For Its Secured Lending Platform For Latin America.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Alternative lending was the golden child among investors around 2015, but lately, the industry seems to have fallen out of favor thanks to regulatory uncertainty and questions over the viability of some business models. Alternative Lending. 3) that it secured $250 million in equity funding from a subsidiary of SoftBank Group.

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Abrigo

JUNE 5, 2023

Banking reports to inform risk management and strategy These reports on capital, growth, and liquidity help financial institutions spot warning signs. They help manage and shape strategy in volatile economic and industry conditions.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Lending Tech With Almost Steady Grades (Even With Rough Semesters). Mortgage services provider ICE acquired mortgage services provider Black Knight bringing together the two largest providers in the space.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

Zopa received those funds from a group linked to IAG Capital Partners, a U.S.-based In December, PYMNTS reported Zopa expected to receive £130 million ($1.67 million) to become a challenger bank. The news of the funding it had struggled for came days before its conditional banking license was set to expire. based fund, and its U.K.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

FinTech investments targeting B2B and corporate services spanned the globe, with particular concentration this past week in SMB lending across India and Europe. The Series C round was led by CDC Group, which in turn operates as a UK government owned VC fund. Aspire Fund Management, for its part, is based in Trinidad and Tobago.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Since its founding in 2012, the firm has specifically distinguished itself in a crowded field of tech-based underwriters, with its focus on the consumer group it calls the “underbanked middle class.”. Amount’s first target group of banks will be large institutions looking for a highly customizable lending solution.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Sound loan administration software or systems will generate accurate, timely information in a secure environment. Loan administration is a basic and yet far-reaching process of lending. Find out about upcoming free lending/credit webinars. Your loan administration should help detect emerging problems and improve auditability.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2018

Wells Fargo, weeks after it was hit with a rare enforcement action from the Federal Reserve, is overhauling its risk management processes and announced internally that four top risk management executives would be retiring. Some roles and responsibilities of executives and groups within the organization were also changed.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Porter Capital , which works with accounts receivable (AR) financing and asset-based lending solutions, will provide more funding for businesses in need of extra money from their current Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

The funds will be used to expand the company’s lending base, build technology and boost analytics capabilities. million (Rs 145 crore) Series C round led by CDC Group earlier this week. The total funds raised by LendkingKart is now at $146 million. Lendingkart reported a three-fold increase in its consolidated revenue to $13.1

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Jack Ma’s Ant Group is considering moving all of its financial services units to a separate holding company that would be regulated like a bank, Reuters reported on Tuesday (Dec. Consumer lending is Ant’s biggest revenue driver, followed by Alipay. . The key is that consumer lending shouldn’t be over-leveraged,” he said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

Small business lending activity across the globe is in flux. China saw a whopping 17 percent increase in small business lending in Q1, while U.S. We break down the latest on SME lending in these key markets. On the other side of the conversation is Marathon Partners Equity Management, LLC, which has owned 1.75

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Online wealth management platform Lufax is the latest to file plans for an IPO in the United States as Chinese firms rush to go public before tough new federal disclosure rules go into effect. A unit of Ping An Insurance Group, Lufax filed confidential paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday (Aug.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Mark Cuban is tweeting about Jill Castilla’s fintech efforts with lending system startup Teslar. Digital Security. Lastly, at this writing, Rockbridge Growth Equity (ties to Rocket Mortgage ) and CU Solutions Group acquired database marketing provider Marquis from Falfurrias Capital. OK, me neither.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Two years ago today, Lending Club was ringing the bell on an IPO that one early investor called “a no-brainer.”. Lending Club’s model does not need bank branches on each street corner, and it can turn around in minutes and hours, not days. “I So what went so right for LendingClub two years ago today at its IPO — and then so wrong?

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Bobsguide

MAY 25, 2022

London — May 16, 2022 — Mindtree , a global technology services and digital transformation company, and Finastra , a leading financial technology provider, today announced a partnership to bring Finastra’s Fusion Payments To Go payments technology to banks in the Nordics, the UK and Ireland, as a managed service.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

Renaud Laplanche , Former CEO of Lending Club, in a 2013 interview. Those were the good old days of Lending Club, a Silicon Valley darling that was the next big thing in lending. Lending Club was the poster child of that alt lending movement. I want to create something new and innovative.” He was far from alone.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

GPay , a member company of the Vietnam investment firm G-Group , joins a tight FinTech market in Vietnam with 33 other firms licensed for intermediary payment services. GPay has a supportive ecosystem from G-Group with above 20 million users of financial platforms, game community, social network and technology companies.

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PopularBank

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Joseph Culotta Brings More Than 18 Years of Leadership and Wealth Management Expertise to Popular Bank. NASDAQ: BPOP) and one of the nation’s premier banks, announced today the appointment of Joseph Culotta as Director of Wealth Management for Popular Investments. I look forward to being a part of this legacy.”. About Popular Bank.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Patrick Moore , executive vice president and head of Capital One ‘s Treasury Management Product Management group, told PYMNTS that these collaborations offer the ability to integrate niche FinTech capabilities into Capital One’s broader range of services. ”

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The key allegations in the DOJ’s complaint are the following: During the relevant time period (2015-2021), the Newark, New Jersey-Pennsylvania Metro Division (Newark MD) as delineated in 2015 included Essex, Somerset, Union, Sussex, and Morris counties in New Jersey (Newark Lending Area). unlikely to be caused by chance) and sizeable.

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Abrigo

MAY 30, 2023

Final rule Effective dates & compliance dates for rule 1071 As they do with any new requirement, financial institutions want to know when the CFPB 1071 rule is effective and when they must begin collecting and reporting data on their small business lending activities. Which lenders are counted as “covered financial institutions”?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

Santander, a Spanish bank, and eBay have teamed up to offer lending services to small businesses, in an attempt to stave off competition from not only larger companies but smaller ones as well, according to a report by the Financial Times. Business lending is a ripe sector for banks as it tends to be less regulated that consumer lending.

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