PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The same framework should be in place to improve technology used by regulators in efforts to strengthen supervision throughout the industry, the think tank also says. The risk and safety lines with AI in China in the finance sector appear to be blurring.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

China’s Ant Group is mulling the creation of a new consumer loan unit that would allow it to continue making loans throughout the country while complying with new Chinese banking regulations. Ant Group had planned to go public for $35 billion, which would have made it the largest IPO in market history. On Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Financial regulators in China are moving to curb the influence of Jack Ma 's Ant Group by telling it to switch focus back to its mainstay payments business while fixing issues in personal lending, wealth management and more, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. The People's Bank of China criticized Ant on Sunday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ant Group , Tencent and JD.com are facing a crackdown by Beijing over concerns of over-lending to consumers through their platforms, a major cash cow for the Chinese tech giants. They have heavily relied on Ant’s data to underwrite loans and manage risks,” one senior regulator told Reuters.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Jack Ma has seen his net worth plunge by $3 billion after the Ant Group double initial public offering (IPO) was suspended on Tuesday (Nov. 3) by Chinese regulators, according to a report from Business Insider , which quoted numbers from Bloomberg's Billionaire Index. 5) as originally planned. Ma also owns 4.2

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American Banker

MARCH 26, 2024

A lawsuit filed by the American Fintech Council and two other trade groups has implications for other states that also want to keep out high-cost consumer lenders.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Expressing a range of concerns, several key industry groups submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) last week regarding its proposed rule that would impose new substantive and disclosure obligations on auto-dealers in the auto finance process.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

federal officials may still be in the early stages of assessing the nation’s alternative lending and small business finance sector, an effort that may eventually lead to regulation of an industry that has yet to face significant crackdowns. The CRBF is not the U.S.’s The CRBF is not the U.S.’s

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2018

The P2P lending market is big business in the U.K. Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA), a self-regulating P2P industry group that includes most of the biggest names in U.K. marketplace lending, the country’s P2P lending industry had hit £9 billion in loan originations from the group’s members as of Q1 2018.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Ant Group , the online payment provider for China-based Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., 18), Shanghai regulators approved Ant Group’s request to proceed with its IPO share sale. Ant Group declined to comment in an emailed statement. The news comes as Ant Group gained profits of $1.3 On Friday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For Ant Group, for Alibaba, and for the biggest IPO ever, it’s a case of hurry up and wait. In a sign that the scrutiny might go on for a bit, Alibaba, which owns 33 percent of Ant, said through a spokesperson, “We will be proactive in supporting Ant Group to adapt to and embrace the evolving regulatory framework.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

New Chinese finance rules will force Ant Group to comply with regulations to back up any payments, lending or other finances with substantial capital, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). 1, and will have to apply for a license to do so. 1, and will have to apply for a license to do so.

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Abrigo

JUNE 12, 2020

Key Takeaways The soon-to-begin Main Street Lending Program (MSLP) aims to fulfill a need for mid-sized businesses to access relief funds amid the coronavirus pandemic. The MSLP aims to be a lifeline for businesses that may have been too big to participate in the PPP, but too small to access corporate lending facilities. learn more.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

policymakers, or Members of Parliament (MPs), are slamming financial institutions (FIs) for their treatment of small business (SMB) borrowers, and are calling on the government to overhaul business lending regulations as a result. Reports in Reuters late last week said the U.K.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

FinTechs continue to push the envelope to see how far open banking frameworks can go in improving the SMB banking experience, and increasingly, SMB lending is shifting to the center of these collaborative efforts. “Regulation around open banking has certainly been of great benefit to businesses in the U.K., In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

The report, citing research firm Yingcan Group, reported that a crackdown by the China government caused the decline in peer-to-peer lenders. The P2P lending market in China has been rife with scams and controversy for some time now. According to Yingcan Group, by the end of 2019, there will only be 300 P2P lenders remaining.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A group of 96 organizations and individuals, who describe themselves as consisting of “consumer, labor, civil rights, legal services, faith, community and financial organizations and academics,” have sent a letter to the CFPB urging the Bureau to regulate fee-based earned wage access (EWA) products as credit subject to the Truth in Lending Act.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, financial regulators in China are moving to check the influence of Jack Ma’s Ant Group, while the second pilot of a digital yuan by the People’s Bank of China has concluded. China's Central Bank Tells Ant Group To Concentrate On Payments Business.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

regulators to introduce stricter small business (SMB) lending regulations, claiming that lax regulatory oversight is what allowed RBS to avoid punishment after a watchdog found the financial institution (FI) had unfairly treated small business customers of its Global Restructuring Group (GRG). According to City A.M.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Bloomberg is reporting that lending companies that don’t get deposits, like Tala, which is backed by Alphabet, and Branch International, which is funded by Andreessen Horowitz, don’t get supervised by the central bank. The effort to lower rates has caused some banks to pull back on high-risk small business lending, the industry has said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

China’s move to suspend Ant Group’s anticipated blockbuster initial public offering (IPO) likely came from the top echelon of the Chinese government, according to a report in the Financial Times. The suspension came just two days before shares of Ant Group were to go live on the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock markets. A collective $2.7

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The panel, which traces its genesis back two years, is comprised of two groups, focused separately on lending and payments, and is in turn part of CSBS Vision 2020. “As We have formed a working group of state regulators to develop the model. Our FinTech industry advisory panel did include a few community banks.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2017

As Australian regulators continue to press the nation’s largest banks for fairer small business lending practices, a new small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB) lending platform is headed for the market. Australian Finance Group said Monday (Aug.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 8, 2016

Marketplace lenders Funding Circle, Lending Club and Prosper announced Wednesday the formation of the Marketplace Lending Association, a nonprofit organization that will “promote responsible business practices and sound public policy to benefit borrowers and investors.”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

The country’s regulators have gotten tough on the shadow banking market in recent years. However, while regulators are happy to see shadow lending fade, the sector’s main borrowers — private companies — are feeling the strain. Of those defaults, private groups comprised more than ¥16 billion. China’s $9.1

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 11, 2016

A number of prominent industry trade groups have written to the Department of Defense (DoD) seeking clarifications to the Military Lending Act (MLA) final rule adopted in July 2015 that dramatically expanded the scope of the MLA’s coverage.

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Abrigo

JULY 11, 2017

In December of 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s associate directors of the Office of Fair Lending expressed a new shift in priorities that will increase focus on small business lending, among other loan types. published in the May 2017 issue of BankNews.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

regulations have been working to elevate business banking competition and expand access to capital for corporate and SMB borrowers, but the latest reports from the government suggest those efforts are falling short. billion decline in net lending to companies in the month driven by the $2.43 Reports in The Irish News on Saturday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

India's central bank wants stricter regulations for big shadow lenders, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The paper comes after a speech by a top RBI official in charge of banking regulation, Bloomberg writes. However, others piled on risk, he said, lending long-term loans while also raising short-term cash.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Short-term lending – specifically, payday loans – have attracted a lot of attention in recent years, from the media and from the regulators. The main difference between the two forms of non-bank subprime cash lending – as their names imply – is the time a customer is given to pay a loan. population. Pew’s Recommended Changes.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

India-based financial services provider Reliance Capital has announced it will exit the lending market. Anil Ambani , group chairman of the non-bank financial company (NBFC), revealed the firm’s plans on Monday (Sept. Last month Bloomberg reported that NBFCs in India have issued $1.5

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Several national and Texas banking and business trade groups have filed a lawsuit in the U.S.

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Bussman Advisory

JULY 29, 2022

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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

AUGUST 6, 2018

China has ordered a lockdown of Beijing’s financial district Monday (August 6) to prevent individuals from protesting a crisis in the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending marketplace. Police were checking identity cards of anyone entering the area to prevent organized demonstrations by groups of investors that lost money as P2P lenders went under.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly personally nixed the Ant Group double initial public offering (IPO), which had been set to be the biggest in the world, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. He used this as a springboard to critique what he perceived as too much regulation from the government.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

But the latest initiatives reveal a growing interest in transforming internal processes, particularly among smaller banks looking to upgrade their core infrastructure and elevate small business lending operations. Equiniti Eyes APIs for Risk Management. Yes Bank Woes See API Disruption.

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