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California Dept. of Business Oversight launches “true lender” investigation of auto title lender’s partnership with Utah bank

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Thereafter, “using its existing lending operations and personnel, LoanMart commenced ‘marketing’ and ‘servicing’ auto title loans purportedly made by CCBank, a small Utah-chartered bank operating out of Provo, Utah.” The DOB indicated that such loans have interest rates greater than 90 percent.

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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. According to a report in Fortune , Upgrade of San Francisco, Calif.,

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CFPB provides insight on treatment of big data

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” At the American Bar Association’s Consumer Financial Services Committee meeting last month in Park City, Utah, Bryce Stephens and Jeffrey Langer from the CFPB provided insight as to how the CFPB treats the use of big data by creditors. Stephens stated that there is an “expectation that lenders comply.”

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California court rejects OppFi’s attempt to block DFPI’s “true lender” challenge to loans made through bank partnership

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As alleged the Commissioner is not attempting to regulate the transfer of loans in the secondary market. Rather, the focus here is on the identity of the lender in the primary market. Unless it settles, it creates a risk to the viability of bank model online lending that is structured like OppFi’s Program.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

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million gets the vaunted consumer lender a much-prized bank charter, low-cost deposits to juice current earnings, and a business lending capability to drive future growth. Rex Johnson, Baxter Credit Union founder and former CEO – Rex was a legend in the credit union industry who will always be remembered as the “Yoda” of lending.

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

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Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. Market opportunity. Business lending and corporate cards. Stripe is ramping up its private market investments. Expansion into emerging markets.

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Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $460 Million Week Ending April 1

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HQ: Salt Lake City, Utah. Tags: Consumer, lending, loans, mortgage, investing, peer-to-peer, crowdfunding. HQ: California City, California. Source: Crunchbase. PayItSimple consumer credit service. Latest round: $22.5 million ($56 million valuation). Total raised: Unknown. HQ: New York City. Source: FT Partners. Source: FT Partners.