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LendingClub’s Laplanche Starting New Online Lender

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LendingClub’s former CEO, Renaud Laplanche, who stepped down in May, sending shockwaves throughout the online lending industry, is gearing up to launch a new lender online called Upgrade. The loans will be issued by WebBank out of Utah and later purchased by Upgrade.

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Call It Alt-Credit Or POS Lending, ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Just Got Bigger

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That alternative method of paying for purchases “on credit” got a boost with news this week that Visa Installments , a new point-of-sale (POS) credit solution, is being rolled out in pilot markets across the U.S. This follows a pilot rollout in Russia last month. Silicon Valley FinTech Affirm is also a regular in the top 5 this year.

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N26: Cloud-Banking Core Key To Meeting Consumers’ Mobile Banking Needs

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Many banks braced themselves for an oncoming surge in the number of consumers accessing their financial accounts online or via mobile banking apps, but safely and seamlessly providing that access remained tricky for many in the space. FACILE will be marketed as a competitor to other digital-only banks making headway in the U.S.,

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Prosper Marketplace’s Precarious Path Forward

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With the recent tightening of the capital markets, we are refocusing on our core consumer loans business,” he said. Prosper is one of several online-based marketplace lenders suffering from falling profits as investor interest in buying consumer loans is softening. So just how rough is the sledding?

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Facing Tougher Times, Prosper Marketplace Is Making Deep Staff Cuts

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According to Wall Street Journal reports, the online lender is shedding 28 percent of its staff and rearranging its executive team. The biggest individual cut will be a Utah office dedicated to lending for medical procedures, but 14 percent of Prosper’s San Francisco- and Phoenix-based workforce is also on its way out the door.

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SoFi Officially Files For A Bank Charter Of Its Own

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Officially SoFi is looking for an industrial loan charter under the name SoFi Bank in Utah. And though its mailing address will be in Salt Lake city, SoFi will continue to operate as it has since its inception — as an online-only institution, with no branches or deposit-taking ATMs. SoFi has confirmed the news.

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