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SoFi Looks For $500M To Expand Lending Services

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Social Finance, or SoFi for short, is nearing an agreement to raise as much as $500 million in a new venture capital funding round, Bloomberg reported. That tally is likely to be led by Silver Lake Partners, the newswire said, and will be geared toward boosting the online lending and personal finance offerings now under SoFi’s umbrella.

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Bounce-Back Loans Shaky After Funding Loss By UK FinTech Lender Tide 

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Lending decisions under the bounce-back loan scheme are fully delegated to the accredited lenders. Tide was founded by banker George Bevis in 2015; London venture capitalist Eileen Burbidge serves as the bank's chair. The FinTech doesn’t qualify for the Bank of England’s term funding scheme aimed at small business lending.

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Lending Club’s Terrible Twos

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Two years ago today, Lending Club was ringing the bell on an IPO that one early investor called “a no-brainer.”. Lending Club’s model does not need bank branches on each street corner, and it can turn around in minutes and hours, not days. “I So what went so right for LendingClub two years ago today at its IPO — and then so wrong?

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Is B2B FinTech Heating Up At The Wrong Time?

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The tallies are in: Innovate Finance has calculated the state of investment in FinTech for 2015, and we have the numbers. Innovate Finance released The 2015 FinTech Investment Landscape this month, a report that offers a snapshot at how investors are placing their money among financial innovators. It amounted to about $12.5

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Razorpay Notches $75M In Series C Round

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In a Series C round led by Sequoia India and Ribbit Capital, online payments firm Razorpay has notched $75 million in funding. The company is said to use the funds to grow new offerings such as its Razorpay Capital lending arm and Razorpay X neo-banking platform. The company was started by Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar.

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Monzo Sets Goal Of 500 New Hires, 5.5M Users

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Monzo, a loss-making firm launched in 2015, has burned through cash in its attempt to grow and eventually launch in the U.S. Yet, it’s had no problem raising capital — it’s valued at more than £2 billion ($2.6 million customers in its British home base, boasting a bright coral card and spend-tracking data.

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Indian FinTech ZestMoney Raises $15M Led By Goldman Sachs

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Bangalore-based FinTech ZestMoney has raised $15 million in a Series B funding round led by Goldman Sachs and existing investors Naspers, Quona Capital, and Omidyar Network, TechCrunch reported on Thursday (Dec. ZestMoney was founded in 2015 by Chapman, Priya Sharma and Ashish Anantharaman in 2015.

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