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Could the 2009 subprime mortgage crisis have been avoided with blockchain?

BankNXT

Could the 2009 subprime mortgage crisis have been avoided with blockchain? The subprime mortgage crisis, and why distributed ledgers would have been instrumental in lessening its impact. Story by George Samman. on BankNXT.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

PYMNTS

The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. The DOJ Finding. Attorney Alex Tse. “We million Series C round in April of 2010.

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FinTech Innovation in Southeast Asia

Let's Talk Payments

Embracing the Southeast Asian digital revolution in financial technology, FinTech seems to be exploding with quite a lot of startups having been established from 2009 onwards. The breadth and depth.

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What Customer Intimacy Has To Do With Payments

PYMNTS

Back in 2009, the Apple iStore and Facebook Connect had just come out, and a group of friends and I saw these disruptive forces and thought that we could harness them and build a social payments app. .’s BC: As an investment banker, I didn’t find meaning in advising in transactions. ’s vision, strategy, and growth.

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Are central banks getting on board with blockchain?

NCR

This may suggest that central banks are set to take a much more active role in the development of blockchain technology, but it remains unclear just how far they are willing to go when it comes to setting out new standards and regulations for the use of the technology. The post Are central banks getting on board with blockchain?

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3 Strategies Goldman Sachs can use to build a Fintech powerhouse

Lex Sokolin

There are, all of a sudden, a lot of deals being done across financial technology. I find the deal a bit of a headscratcher, other than to say that a company founded in 2009 may be a bit tired, and wanting to cash out to a company founded in 2014. Wealthtech is one fire, they say now. Maybe not all of a sudden.

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Finovate Alums Earn Spots in FinTech Forward 20 “Companies to Watch”

Fintech Labs Insights

Founded in 2009. Alkami Technology ( FS09 – as iThryv). Founded in 2009. He said banks and credit unions were growing the size of their loan portfolios and “competing with emerging technologies” by adopting CUneXus’ solutions. Yantra Financial Technologies. Malauzai ( FS16 ).

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