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Ant Financial Looking To Resurrect Stalled IPO

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It has since morphed into a platform offering a full suite of services — mobile payments, savings accounts, personal investing, lending, and credit scoring. . percent pre-tax profits for a 33 percent equity stake. Hu came to Alibaba Group in 2005 and functioned as Ant Financial’s president since November 2018. .

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BizFi Reaches $1.8 Billion Small Business Lending Milestone

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Courtesy of more than $144 million in originations in the second quarter, small business lending platform Bizfi has just surpassed $1.8 Founded in 2005 and headquartered in New York City, Bizfi demonstrated its technology at FinovateFall 2015. Billion Small Business Lending Milestone appeared first on Finovate.

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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

The only time US personal saving has been this low was back in 2005 when it bottomed out at 2.1%. The BEA calculates the personal saving rate by subtracting taxes from personal income to arrive at “disposable personal income” and then subtracts personal outlays. in October. From 1990-2004, US home ownership rose 7.45% to 69.2%

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The 40 Fintech Graduates from Y Combinator (YC)

Fintech Labs Insights

The first class (Summer 2005) included one fintech startup, TextPayMe, among the eight companies. But as YC grew from 2005 to 2009, the number of fintech companies stayed at roughly 1 per year. Indinero [link] Accounting, taxes & payroll. You are almost guaranteed a multi-million funding. One solution.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

History has shown that inverted yield curves precede recessions by 18 to 24 months on average, as we saw in 1990, 2001, and 2005. Indeed, banks generally pull back on lending if longer-term loan rates are less than their cost of funds, which are generally based on shorter-term rates.

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Zopa Partners with Equifax, Boosting its Risk Profiling Capabilities

Fintech Labs Insights

And while Zopa and Equifax have had been working together since 2005, the new agreement gives Zopa “deeper insights into customer behavior” that should result in a better performing loan portfolio for Zopa and better rates for many customers. A few metrics from Zopa: Over £1 billion lent to U.K. More than 50,000 active lenders.

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The Coming Millennial FinTech Crisis

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Chetty and his team did that by gaining access to the anonymized tax returns of people in their mid-30s over a 40-year period between 1940 and 1980. The National Association of Realtors says that home ownership for those under 35 — first-time homebuyers — is down to 36 percent of that age cohort from a high of 43 percent in 2005.