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Kicking The ‘Virtual’ Tires To Spur Car Sales As COVID-19 Hits Automakers

PYMNTS

COVID-19 is spurring firms that rely on consumer spending, and on lending to finance big-ticket purchases, to invent new ways to keep business flowing – with a nod to the fact that the uncertain economic impact of the virus may hurt consumers’ near-term ability to pay for those items. Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions For Any Sized Bank That You Must Get Right in 2023

South State Correspondent

Popular projects for 2023 include online loan and deposit onboarding utilizing third-party data to speed the process, compliance-as-a-service, payments, card controls, service case management, leveraging data for customer insights, and providing open banking APIs to customers. Remember all those five-year fixed-rate loans you booked at 4%?

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Top 63 Online Digital Banks for U.S. Consumers (Nov 2023)

Fintech Labs Insights

Consumers have been banking online for 28 years. The first, online bank Security First Network Bank (SFNB) launched in 1995, just a year after Amazon.com. The post Top 63 Online Digital Banks for U.S. And from the very beginning, there have been pure-play digital banking startups. Looking for small business resources?

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

Here, we highlight some of last year’s most successful loan producers in the areas of agriculture, commercial and consumer/mortgage lending. The score combines the average of the bank’s percentile rank for lending concentration and for loan growth over the past year in each lending category. By Ed Avis. Methodology. AGRICULTURE.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

William Mills

Qumrum allows banks to actually document customer interactions online. We enable FIs to record everything that goes on with the customers transactions on mobile, online, social and let the FI validate interactions on that site. Empyr helps to connect online and offline businesses. 11 hours a day online. Jon Carder (CEO).

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Facebook’s Libra, Uber Losses, Instant Deposits Top Week’s News

PYMNTS

Max Levchin On The Future-Present Of Everywhere POS Lending. 8, Levchin told Karen Webster, Affirm can give an entirely new answer to that question as it has rolled out a new app that will allow customers to use the service to pay almost anywhere online or (with an assist from Google Pay and Apple Pay) in the real world. As of Oct.

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Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $215 Million Week Ending Feb 19

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Houston, Texas. P2P lending marketplace. Security solutions for mobile apps and online services. Tags: Consumer, insurance, automobile lending, cars. Source: Crunchbase. UniRush (RushCard). Prepaid card issuer. Latest round: $15 million Debt. Total raised: Unknown. Source: FT Partners. Marvelstone Tech. Digital bank.

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