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Barclays profits tumble 12% as UK interest rates hit mortgage demand

TheGuardian

Pre-tax profits drop to £2.3bn between January and March, down from £2.6bn last year • Business live – latest updates Profits at Barclays tumbled by 12% in the first quarter, as higher UK interest rates weighed on demand for mortgages and loans while a backdrop of economic uncertainty affected its investment bank. Continue reading.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. Marketplace Lending. Honesty is the best policy.

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FICO Changes Reporting Data

PYMNTS

Good news is ahead for those suffering from low FICO scores — according to reports this morning, civil judgements and tax liens will by and large be coming off of consumer credit reports. The change will apply to new tax lien and civil judgment data that are added to credit reports as well as existing data on the reports.

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

Gentle Monster Background Founded in 2011 by Kim, Gentle Monster initially struggled to break through against large brands like Luxottica which controls an estimated 30% of the US market, and is behind almost every single designer eyeglass brand you can think of, including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Armani, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Prada and many more.

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Advocacy at the Grassroots: A Lively Legislature

Independent Banker

We also have been playing what has become an annual game of intense defense—opposing a number of proposals that would enhance and expand the fields of membership and powers of tax-exempt credit unions. From 1992 to 2011, the total shrunk from 299 to 169 institutions, and the trend has not dissipated.) 3616 and A. 4785 and A.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

Business lending and corporate cards. Square has since expanded its offerings to standalone, integrated point-of-sale terminals, as well as a broader ecosystem of applications and services such as lending (Square Capital), payroll services (Square Payroll), and rewards (Square Loyalty). Fraud prevention tools. Virtual card issuance.

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Guest Post: 3rd Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

What is really needed is an approach to get banks back to lending, which is not helped by increased capital requirements and FASB’s proposal to subject loans to mark-to-market accounting, which could introduce frightening volatility into bank earnings and capital. When we needed action in the second quarter, the Fed did not act.

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