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The Future According To SoftBank

CB Insights

Meanwhile, the average deal size has decreased steadily in the past few years, and the firm is cutting checks to many first-time investments as it aims to diversify its portfolio and build out a wide-sweeping ecosystem of disruptive tech brands. Konfio , for instance, provides business credit and lending. Fitness & wellness tech.

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SMB Lenders: BlueVine is Top Private Alt-Lender After Kabbage Acquisition by American Express

Fintech Labs Insights

The 8-year-old startup tops our list of 26 Digital SMB Lenders if you ignore Kabbage, which is now part of American Express ( Kabbage remains on our list since it’s currently an independent brand). By comparison, in 2020 Kabbage originated $7B in PPP loans to 300,000 small businesses compared to Bluevine’s $4B. in 2020 and $4.4B

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Prosper, Alibaba, Snapchat – And Amazon Dash

PYMNTS

The problem, which seems quite manageable by comparison, is the volume of transactions that are still manually reviewed and the number of false positives that still plague the good guy shoppers in the face of an ever-growing number of transactions happening online. Prosper/Alt Lending. Lending Club shares are off more than a third. .

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New Sponsor: National Funding Makes a Push to Help More U.S. Small Businesses

Fintech Labs Insights

We are excited to be working with an established brand founded almost a quarter-century ago. In comparison, the best-known digital lending startup Kabbage ( now owned by American Express ), has a 3.3 Related: The 322 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Aug 2022). It has originated more than $4.5 TrustPilot score.

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The Massive Opportunity For Insurance Tech In Indonesia

CB Insights

GET THE 106-PAGE FINTECH TRENDS REPORT. Download the free report to learn about the biggest trends from fintech in 2018 and ones to watch for 2019. Two that are already seeing lots of activity are payments and lending. Meanwhile, alternative lending is also seeing strong growth, with P2P fintech platforms distributing $1.4B

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How Have the Finovate Best of Show Winners Fared?

Fintech Labs Insights

And many of those winners have gone on to become successful fintech companies or be acquired by one. FinTech Insights by Scientia: Providing fintech market data, seen increased subscriptions from enterprise clients. Lendsmart: AI-driven platform streamlining home lending processes, new partnerships with regional banks.

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Mergers and Acquisitions in open-source Decentralized Finance

Lex Sokolin

These are your industry comparisons. Whereas Compound & Aave match margin lend/borrow demand at particular interest rates, and Uniswap & Balancer & Curve create automated market making for on-chain trading, Yearn is a blockchain-native fixed income active asset manager. billion is a chunk of change. It generates cash flow.