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APRIL 11, 2017

India-based SME lender Capital Float has added a bit of funding to its books thanks to a $2.3 According to Capital Float cofounder Sashank Rishyasringa, the deal brings the total raised for Capital Float in 2016–2017 to $9.2 The company has secured significant venture capital, too. million through this route.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world. Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 11, 2020

It was into this world that the much celebrated digital lending fintech OnDeck recently sold to Enova for $90 million, a virtual fire sale at way under 1X OnDeck’s revenue. They primarily support – don’t compete with – federally insured bank lending. or 26X revenue but quickly doubled in the market. mortgage market.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In the 2015 Growth Strategy Survey by Bank Director , the most commonly cited areas for growth were Commercial Real Estate Lending, C&I loans, SBA loans, and Construction loans. which means their capital needs fluctuate. businesses are sole proprietorships or small businesses. Small businesses in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

Alternative small business (SMB) lending platform CAN Capital announced on Wednesday (Jan. CAN Capital added Siciliano from commercial financing company Marlin Business Services , where he served in a variety of roles, including CEO and chief operating officer. 9) that Edward J.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Roady, who has been on MoneyLion’s board of directors since 2016, was previously a founding partner at GAIN Capital and president of its global retail brokerage business. Personal finance, banking and investment platform MoneyLion has named Samantha Roady chief operating officer as it makes moves to expand its customer base.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

Direct Lending Investments ’ founder and CEO Brendan Ross has resigned while his company is the focus of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In a separate letter, the company also shared that another borrower had defaulted on a loan that accounted for about a quarter of its capital.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2016

Lending Club, which has been struggling to recover from loan errors and the departure of its Chief Executive (among other issues), has named Patrick Dunne, a veteran of BlackRock, as its new chief capital officer. Dunne is well known in financial circles and his appointment is seen as a boon to the beleaguered Lending Club.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 21, 2017

Really easy to work with, the company is the chosen system for many other innovative companies including Kickstarter and Apple Pay, and valued at almost $10 billion by the end of 2016. Not bad for a six-year-old start-up. They all share many of the same attributes, in terms of being young, aspirational, visionary and capable.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 14, 2020

Shopify, which has been offering loans through the Shopify Capital program to merchants on its platform since 2016, is rolling out starter loans to support businesses at their earliest stages of development, explained […]. businesses.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

An alternative lending conglomerate based in the U.K. Its units include Distribution Finance Capital, Satago and Oxygen Finance, while it also owns a minority stake in peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Zopa. Many borrowers are neglected by banks and still face expensive funding and capital. reports noted.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 5, 2017

The recent troubles of Home Capital, a Canadian alternative lender, once again raises questions about the future of the industry. The latest crisis is timely, as this month marks the one-year anniversary of the surprise firing of Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

Capital One logged stronger than expected results when it posted its earnings yesterday — the growth was driven largely by rising interest rates and an uptick in its largest lending categories, cars and cards. Capital One reported net income up 71 percent to $1.3 By The Numbers . billion from a year earlier.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 15, 2016

Bank Innovation Israel 2016 registration has officially opened today. The only Western fintech event in Startup Nation, the 2016 Bank Innovation Israel will take place 1-3 November at the Dan Tel Aviv. The event is presented by Bank Innovation, one of the world’s leading fintech blogs.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed members to its newly-formed Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee as it works to support small business access to capital. The SEC’s new advocate for small business capital formation, Martha Legg Miller, and 15 other members are also a part of the team, reports said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

30) said a lack of regulation in the online SMB lending arena is raising concerns over sky-high fees and interest rates, sparking a bigger conversation about expanding borrower protections beyond consumers. Top players in the industry, including PayPal and Amazon , have promoted borrower trust in the online lending business model for SMBs.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2018

Alternative lending platform BlueVine has announced its latest investment to the tune of $60 million. A press release issued by the company said Menlo Ventures led the Series E equity funding round for BlueVine, which also saw backing from SVB Capital and other investors.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Necessity is the mother of invention. Behind the Numbers .

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The panel of judges — Scarlett Sieber of BBVA; Sam Maule of Carlisle & Gallagher; Ryan Falvey of the Center for Financial Services Innovation; Matt Wilcox of Fiserv; and Phil Ryan of Bank Innovation — will decide which company is worthy of the “Best in Show” DEMOvation crown at Bank Innovation 2016.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Following the recent financial crisis, the Basel Committee of Banking Supervision (BCBS) set out to “strengthen global capital and liquidity rules with the goal of promoting a more resilient banking sector.” The three pillars include maintaining minimum capital requirements, a supervisory review process and market discipline.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

The Financial Stability Board says Basel III rules have not led to a squeeze of the small business bank lending market, according to reports on Friday (June 7). The FSB announced Friday the findings of its analysis of Basel III regulations on the small business lending space.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Big banks saw tax rates fall to an average of below 19 percent — that compares to the 28 percent they paid in 2016, reports noted. Bloomberg noted that it used 2016 tax rates to compare what banks paid last year, due to the accounting adjustments that financial institutions (FIs) applied in 2017 as a result of tax reform taking effect.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2017

The alternative lending industry continues to scoff at doubters, and the latest B2B venture capital roundup suggests confidence is growing in the space — and not just in the U.S., Last month was a booming time for alternative lending when top names, like BlueVine, scored hefty sums. Alt-Lending. Funding Circle.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Data is expected to show slower economic growth across Canada for the second half of 2017 and, along with it, a slowdown in small- and medium-sized business (SMB) lending, according to new research from small business credit data and analysis firm PayNet. In its “Small Business Lending Index,” released Tuesday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2018

Marketplace lending platforms – Lending Club, OnDeck, Prosper and the like – have inarguably and fundamentally altered the geography of the lending landscape. The lending model has fundamentally changed,” Vallée told Harvard Business School Weekly. Now decisions are increasingly based on hard information.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2016

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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Celent Banking

MARCH 30, 2016

Last week, I participated in a Finextra webinar on the topic of “Connected Credit and Compliance for Lending Growth” with panelists from ING, Vertus Partners, Misys and Credits Vision. Cost of compliance. Changing client expectations. Competition from new entrants.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This reverses the previous year’s trend, between 2016 and 2017, when sub-prime loan originations across categories fell by 7.1 In 2016, the market experienced a pullback as lenders slowed or stalled sub-prime originations,” Komos said. “In Auto lending saw its sub-prime loans delinquency rate improve by 15 basis points, from 6.9

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

can get loan approvals in minutes through its Worldpay Working Capital solution, which initially rolled out in March 2019. Working Capital makes it faster and easier for businesses to get access to the cash they need while allowing them to pay the funds as a percentage of their daily card transactions.”. FIS merchants in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

We’re also a pure-play technology company, designed to support banks [that] want to offer lending products, but … either can’t or won’t dedicate hundreds of millions to building the capacity,” he said. Avant launched its first bank partnership with Alabama-based Regions Bank in 2016, using its SaaS product.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

Small businesses will be crucial to the expansion of the P2P lending market across the globe, analysts from Technavio said. 1) said micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) lending will help fuel growth in the global peer-to-peer lending space between 2016 and 2020. ”

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s time for banks and credit unions to finally execute those C&I lending priority initiatives. Senior bank and credit union executives have ranked commercial and industrial (C&I) loans as a top lending priority over the past several years in Cornerstone Advisors’ annual What’s Going On in Banking research.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

educated entrepreneurs met while working abroad at Renaissance Capital and Deutsche Bank. such as Zopa and Lending Club, they saw an opportunity in emerging markets that had been ignored by the big banks, such as Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan. Observing the rise of disruptive companies in Europe and the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2016

Online lending was all the rage even a few months ago, but funding going toward online lending platforms is on the decline. equity investments going toward online lending companies fell 44 percent in the first half of 2016 to $2.1 In June, Lending Club appointed interim CEO Scott Sanborn to the permanent head.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

And generally speaking, central banks seek to boost bank lending if they see, or foresee, a bit of clogged system in hand, where capital flows are needed to sustain economic growth, to keep companies healthy, so that they in turn can continue to keep workers on payroll. It’s being titled TLTO III, said the news site.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

Alternative lending was born from a lack of big bank financing for small businesses in the wake of the financial crisis. The latest report of its Small Business Lending Index , released on Tuesday (Aug. 9), revealed that big banks — those with more than $10 billion in assets — reduced their small business lending volumes in July 2016.

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