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Bento for Business Sets Big Goals with $9 Million in Funding

Bank Innovation

Bento for Business wants to provide its customers with money management tools combined with banking solutions, similar to the personal financial management app for millennials, MoneyLion, according to company CEO Farhan Ahmad. For the task, San Francisco-based Bento raised $9 million in a new round of funding today.

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New Products, New Retailers: Affirm is on a Roll

Bank Innovation

This has been a good year for Affirm, the lending startup established by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin. The San Francisco-based company, has made numerous strides, from issuing its millionth loan to expanding its retail partnerships; from preparing to launch new products in the fall to moving into a permanent office space.

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SoFi Attracts Big Name In Latest Funding Round

PYMNTS

“Over the last year, we’ve worked aggressively to grow SoFi from a desktop lending business to a broad-based, mobile-first financial platform enabling members to borrow, save, spend, invest and protect their money,” said Anthony Noto, CEO of SoFi. SoFi , which is based in San Francisco, has launched numerous new products this year.

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Women in Banking: Unbiased Online Lending, SEC's Next Head

American Banker

Online lenders could be opening doors for female entrepreneurs; the San Francisco Fed's Mary Daly talks about closing the gender gap in the research department; Barclays' UK diversity chief shares mentor-mentee relationship tips; Centric's Patti Husic creates a millennial advisory board.

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Transformation Time Bomb?

Independent Banker

Three ways millennials could accelerate FinTech trends in 2016. When it comes to finance, millennials are a generation known to be conservative in spending and distrustful of financial institutions. Thus, it’s not shocking that millennials are a driving factor in the growing financial technology, or FinTech, movement.

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Unbundling Bank Of America: How The Traditional Bank Is Being Disrupted

CB Insights

The pandemic has also accelerated recent trends in banking, especially among the millennial demographic, which tends to favor digital banking and online brands over traditional banks. SMB lending . Capital Float is an India-based startup providing business loans through a lending platform. Consumer lending. First name.

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OnDeck Adds New Small Business Lending Options

Fintech Labs Insights

.” Pictured (left to right): Miranda Lanzillotti, Marketing Communications Manager, and Pamela Rice, Senior Vice President of Technology, for OnDeck, discussing lending APIs at FinDEVr 2014. And last month, the company teamed up with Intuit to launch a $100 million lending fund for small businesses.

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