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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. Upgrade said in the report that other investors include CreditEase, the Chinese lender, and Noah Holdings, an investment management company.

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Amazon Plans Whole Foods Expansions In Closed Sears Stores

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The recent woes of Sears and other struggling retailers are seen as an opportunity for the online retail giant. For example, Whole Foods managers went to a site in Utah that used to be a Kmart. Sources told Yahoo! that the company is visiting sites of now defunct retail spaces.

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Amazon To Build More Whole Foods Locations

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One person familiar with the plans told the Wall Street Journal that in the Rocky Mountain region Whole Foods employees have visited retail spaces in Idaho, the southern part of Utah and Wyoming, areas where Whole Foods doesn’t have a presence.

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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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Banks Fighting SoFi’s Banking Charter

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The action comes a week after the FDIC announced that digital lender SoFi had applied to the state of Utah for a special banking charter known as an ILC. Ten years ago Walmart to launch in Utah, where many ILCs are based, and was shut down.

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California DFPI issues final regulations implementing 2018 law requiring consumer-like disclosures for commercial financing

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Specifically, SB 1235 defines a “provider” to include “a nondepository institution, which enters into a written agreement with a depository institution to arrange for the extension of commercial financing by the depository institution to a recipient via an online lending platform administered by the nondepository institution.”.

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Today In Payments: COVID-19 Triggers Job Losses; JPMC First Big Bank To Shutter Branches As Virus Spreads

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Also, Square won a banking license for an industrial bank in Utah. Bypass Mobile will provide back-office management and insight engines, which it has already provided for sports and entertainment arenas, food service providers and restaurant chains. Coronavirus Triggers Job Losses, Reduced Hours. Fiserv Acquires Bypass Mobile.

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