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Wells Fargo’s Mobile and Online Banking Outage Affecting Customers Nationwide

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Wells Fargo customers nationwide are experiencing technical difficulty accessing the San Francisco-based bank’s online and mobile banking services.

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Spa Gone. Now Workers Too. LendingClub Joins Bay Area Exodus

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s downtown San Francisco headquarters once featured many of the lavish perks booming tech companies use to attract workers and keep them happy once they’re hired: kitchens stocked with snacks, mini-golf, a Foosball table, an in-house spa. Now the online-lending pioneer is cutting back on the amenities, and the workforce too.

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Digital Bank Monzo Jumps Into Lending In The UK

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Monzo , an online bank out of London, has added loans to its menu of services, the Financial Times reported on Thursday (Aug. can apply for loans as the online bank advances its efforts toward profitability. . He added that jumping into more traditional lending “can get us a good way to profitability, if not even all the way.”.

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Aura is using grocery stores to market installment loans to the underbanked

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For Aura, an online lending platform for low-income families, reaching underbanked borrowers means going beyond the bank setting and working with retailers to reach customers who may be overlooked by traditional lenders.

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Wells Fargo Discloses It Will Add ‘Open Fintech’ Features to Home Loan Platform

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will add additional enterprise-level digital capabilities, APIs, and SDKs to its Home Lending platform. The San Francisco-based bank disclosed the plan in a job posting today. Wells Fargo & Co. The additional APIs and SDKs should allow more integrations with other technology services and applications.

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Report: Digital Lender SoFi Eyes IPO Via SPAC

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Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company, Reuters reported, to help it debut on the stock market. The news reveals CEO Anthony Noto 's aspirations to go public after he succeeded SoFi Co-Founder Mike Cagney in 2018.

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Citizens Bank sees digital mortgage tools as a way to expand relationships

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Citizens Bank is generating one-third of its mortgage applications online, thanks to a suite of tools the company rolled early this year and a partnership with San Francisco-based fintech firm Blend.