2006 Fintech Lending 
PYMNTS
APRIL 30, 2018
It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Marketplace lending. Marketplace Lending.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 17, 2017
Before this year, the last time that happened was in 2006, when Walmart made a move on an ILC. And while much has been quiet on the ILC front ever since, as of 2017, two big FinTechs made them very visible again: Sofi in June and Square in mid-September. SoFi, due to other corporate issues , has already abandoned that effort.
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PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Goldman Sachs Group is giving a $100 million loan to Konfio, marking the first time the lender’s structured finance, investment and lending business has provided a credit facility to a Latin American FinTech. I lived through the subprime crisis,” said Arana, who worked at Deutsche Bank AG in New York from 2006 to 2013. “In
PYMNTS
APRIL 5, 2019
In 2006, 44 percent of tappable equity came from homeownerships with credit scores of 780; in 2017, the share had increased to 53 percent. And here is the kicker: “Much of the corresponding decline in share came from homeowners under 45, whose share of equity declined from 24 percent in 2006 to 14 percent in 2017.”.
CB Insights
JANUARY 4, 2018
UK-based lender Zopa pioneered peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in 2005, quickly followed by US contenders Prosper Marketplace and LendingClub in 2006. By December 2014, venture-backed alternative lenders OnDeck Capital and Lending Club had gone public on the NYSE. FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING. from investors.
PYMNTS
JUNE 17, 2016
Unfortunately, “60 Minutes,” famous for investigative journalism, missed the really big story in FinTech. A few days later, one of the founding fathers of FinTech, Renaud Laplanche , was forced out of Lending Club, the peer-to-peer lender he founded in 2006, following scandals over loan disclosures and conflicts of interest.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 30, 2019
The two companies already have a payments partnership, one that involves Walmart MoneyCard program and which launched in 2006. Not only is that payments deal being extended — a sign of how FinTech is starting to play ever more closely with retail — but the two businesses will create and launch a FinTech accelerator.
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