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CashCall, Courts And California’s Increasingly Confusing Lending Market

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Headquartered in Orange County, California and founded in 2003, CashCall is a big firm that consumers likely know best from its early commercials featuring the late Gary Coleman. All that to say this has been an especially tough week for CashCall, and possibly the entire installment lending industry in the state. At least, they did.

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Grab Reportedly Considered Acquiring 2C2P Pte

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Aung Kyaw Moe, who is a computer programmer and was born in Myanmar, started the company in 2003 in Bangkok. The company reportedly assists firms like Zara, Central Online Shopping and Thai Airways take various payment types online from clients in Southeast Asia. The news comes as Grab raised over $4.5

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Data Dive, Farewells Edition: Apple, Chase, SoFi, Uber

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In 2003, iTunes for Windows arrived in October 2003, allowing non-Mac users, the vast majority of the computing world, to buy music from Apple and sync it to an iPod for the first time. Social Finance, the online lender better known as SoFi, is losing three top executives this week. SoFi and Uber Reshuffle Their Upper Levels.

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How The Digital World Will Soften The Blow Of The Coronavirus

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Museums are putting their exhibitions online for people who want to visit but are unable to currently. Educators are putting coursework online so that children quarantined at home don’t have to miss out on key aspects of their education while school is closed or students can’t get there.

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Top 34 Digital Lenders to U.S. Small Businesses (SMB) (July 2024)

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files recently, I ran across an Online Banking Report article I wrote in 1997 about Bank of Montreal’s pioneering online mortgage application. It was the first time anyone had put a mortgage app online and one of the first online credit apps of any kind.** Cleaning out some (paper!)

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Fighting digital banking fraud – Part 1: Know the threat

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.” Metropolitan Police Service commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe said “warning lights are flashing”, with the full extent of online crime and fraud only just becoming clear. million people over the past year, marking a record high since Javelin began tracking identity fraud in 2003.

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The Final CFPB Prepaid Card Rule Is Here (Expect Controversy)

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The use of prepaid cards has exploded over the last decade or so — in 2003 consumers put less than $1 billion on prepaid cards annually, but by 2012 that figure had grown to $65 billion and by 2018 that figure is projected to reach as much as $121 billion. The user base of prepaid cards has grown significantly as well.

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