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Using digital lending helps to reach small businesses

Independent Banker

Digital lending capabilities are quickly becoming table stakes, particularly when it comes to small business lending. However, banks should first consider their customers’ needs and the infrastructure and features needed in a lending platform before adopting a new digital strategy. Benefits of digital lending.

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Figure CEO: Figure Pay, National Bank Charter Will Boost Financial Inclusion

PYMNTS

While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments. Blockchain and a bank charter might do much to boost financial inclusion.

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Community Banks Debut FinTech Alliance

PYMNTS

Alloy’s Julieann Thurlow, CEO of Reading Cooperative Bank, said, “Community banks play a special role in the lives of our customers, but we don’t have the same IT and innovation budgets as the big banks to capitalize on that relationship.” This time around, Sweetbridge is using blockchain in a lending context.

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Marketplace Lender Avant Debuts Auto Refinance Loans

Bank Innovation

The new auto loan product will initially launch in California, and is expected to be live in Illinois and Georgia by early in the second quarter, with a national rollout expected by the third quarter, according to Avant. Online marketplace lender Avant Inc. will now offer direct-to-consumer auto refinance loans, the company announced today.

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Spilling Business Beans

Independent Banker

Treasury program that’s the well-kept secret in small-business lending. However, an innovative program run by the U.S. In Illinois, a loan participation plan by a community bank “insourced” jobs to the local area from overseas. By Jessica Milano. million of their $5.1 million financing to the state.

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The United States Of Artificial Intelligence Startups

CB Insights

Nuro is followed by Illinois’ Avant ($655M) and Massachusetts’ Indigo Agriculture ($617M). The startup with the least funding on the list is Rhode Island’s The Innovation Scout , a SaaS platform that has raised $50K. The Innovation Scout. 29 startups on this list have raised <$10M in equity funding.

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Scottsdale Community Bank: Making microloans

Independent Banker

George Weisz, Scottsdale Community Bank But for all its embrace of technology, the community bank took its inspiration for an innovative lending program from an old-school tradition: kids’ lemonade stands. William Atkinson is a writer in Illinois.