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Lending Club’s Renaud Laplanche Is Back With A New Venture

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Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club’s former CEO, is back with a new internet lending startup called Credify Finance Corp. But despite its early status, Credify comes into the market pre-wired for lots of attention — since its founder is both famous and infamous in online lending circles. Department of Justice.

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Santander To Pay $25M To Resolve Auto Loan Allegations

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million to Delaware — to resolve predatory subprime auto loan allegations. “I Auto lending is big business for Santander — it is $38.5 Earlier this year, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency downgraded Santander’s rating in community lending. states — $22 million to Massachusetts and $2.87

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JPMorgan Bucks The Trend, To Open 50 New Branches In Philadelphia

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CNBC, citing an interview JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon had with Jim Cramer on Squawk Alley, reported the company is gearing up to open 50 new branches in Philadelphia, Delaware and southern New Jersey during the course of the next five years. in an effort to strengthen its retail business. .”

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Synchrony Says Erroneous Email Not Tied To Data Breach

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The company has a partnership with Amazon in which it lends to customers with low credit scores. “We have confirmed none of your personal data was compromised,” the financial services company said in an email to customers. In other Amazon news , the eCommerce giant is opening a store on the Chinese site Pinduoduo.

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PayPal Teams With ebizmarts To Integrate With Magento

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The firm has deals in place with a Delaware bank to issue debit cards, as well as another agreement with a Georgia bank to deposit checks via photo and Utah-based banks for lending activities.

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Barclays Eyes US Expansion

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Since then, it launched an online lender in Delaware, which collects term deposits to fund its large U.S. billion of deposits to its Delaware operation. credit card business. Last year, the U.S. accounted for 40 percent of the bank’s profits, and around a fifth of the bank’s capital is allocated to the country.

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The Top Five Headlines At Five: What’s Trending Today

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That means the alternative lending startup, which helps business offer consumers lines of credit, is now skirting close to unicorn territory with a valuation of $800 million, according to PitchBook Data. The research firm based those figures off of a Delaware filing on the round. The round was reportedly led by Founders Fund.

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