Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – It’s been a busy few days for fintech startup PayJoy, which today announced that it closed a $6 million investment, only a few days after it reached another milestone. Based in San Francisco, PayJoy hopes to make the smartphone a mainstream financial […].

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 20, 2019

Citizens Bank is generating one-third of its mortgage applications online, thanks to a suite of tools the company rolled early this year and a partnership with San Francisco-based fintech firm Blend.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 12, 2016

Last week Money 20/20 lent its fintech passion to #Copenhagen, whose reach surpassed a staggering 3.2 million in a three-day period last week, surpassing other fintech satellite cities #NewYork and #London, the latter of which barely broke one million during the same three-day period.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 21, 2019

The San Francisco-based fintech startup also announced it has surpassed $1 billion in bookings through its platform, which enables small businesses and freelancers to streamline processes from capturing leads and delivering proposals to sending invoices and […].

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Bank Innovation

MAY 13, 2016

Fear of fintech disruption is still common in banking, but for Bank of the West, “fintech” means opportunity. The San Francisco-based bank is working on deepening its links with Silicon Valley neighbors, and has a hackathon planned for June 17-19 in concert with parent BNP Paribas.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Qwil, which is based in San Francisco, said it was going to use the funding to expand, and hire new employees, while increasing the breadth of the people and businesses it lends to. CEO Johnny Reinsch co-founded the company in 2015.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Qwil, which is based in San Francisco, said it was going to use the funding to expand, and hire new employees, while increasing the breadth of the people and businesses it lends to. CEO Johnny Reinsch co-founded the company in 2015.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

One of the nation’s biggest names in mortgage lending has put the brakes on home equity lines of credit (HELOC) as the economic turmoil caused by COVID-19 is making the U.S. Also in March, PYMNTS reported on Noah, a FinTech startup that offers a novel approach to tapping home equity in this time of uncertainty. Wells Fargo & Co.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 28, 2018

For the task, San Francisco-based Bento raised $9 million in a new round of funding today. Bento for Business wants to provide its customers with money management tools combined with banking solutions, similar to the personal financial management app for millennials, MoneyLion, according to company CEO Farhan Ahmad.

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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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American Banker

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The San Francisco fintech, which is buying Radius Bancorp, will discontinue peer-to-peer lending and instead offer new products, like high-yield savings accounts, to its retail investors.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Movement to foster collaboration between FinTech firms and traditional financial firms continues to gather steam across the globe, aided by government encouragement and initiatives. FinTech Alliance debuted this week, with a roster that tops 500 members. The main thing that will be removed is lending. banking charter. …

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BankInovation

MAY 14, 2021

RealKey launched its automated lending platform on Wednesday, entering a crowded market of fintechs that digitize and automate mortgage lending.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

San Francisco-based FinTech company Square, known for its white card readers, has once again decided to become a banking establishment, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. billion in cash advances and loans through Square Capital , its digital lending subsidiary.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Small business lending platform Kabbage has announced the acquisition of data analytics platform Radius Intelligence. The online lending platform pointed to Radius Intelligence’s capabilities in data acquisition and entity resolution, which enable its data analytics platform to analyze disparate and complex datasets, it said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The San Francisco-based digital mortgage and loan platform on Wednesday (Sept. based early growth, FinTech-focused venture capital firm. The advantage of digital data collection lies with having a more accurate view of the customer and provides the ability to make better lending decisions in real time, Ghamsari said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

FinTech Revolut is working with Decision Tech , a price-comparison technology company, to launch a new service to help users compare — and switch — providers of gas, electricity, broadband, mobile and TV. For one, the digital bank startup said it had landed $80 million in venture funding from San Francisco-based TSG Consumer Partners.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

4) to buy its FinTech competitor, SIA , for about 4.6 This is not the first mega deal involving FinTech companies. billion) to acquire Ingenico Group , the Paris-based technology provider of secure electronic transactions to create a FinTech dynamo. the San Francisco-based financial services company.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

million fundraise, India-based FinTech BharatPe revealed new funding for its solution aimed at small businesses. 26) that the company raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Ribbit Capital, based in San Francisco, and Steadview Capital, based in London. Four months after announcing a $15.5 TechCrunch reported Monday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Plus, online lending startup SoFi is looking to go public through a SPAC. Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company to debut on the stock market. Synctera Brings 'FinTech As A Service' To Community Banks.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

The company is headquartered in San Francisco. He said Guzy “brings more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and FinTech venture investor” and a deep experience with Asian businesses. Shinar added that Fundbox today is better-positioned than any other FinTech out there “to reach the next level.”.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The fintech space is gaining momentum. Last year saw a double record of $46B invested across over 2,800 deals to fintech startups — a 92% uptick in funding year-over-year. GET THE 83-PAGE q2 2019 FINTECH TRENDS REPORT. Q2’19 fintech funding topped $8.3B, boosted by a record quarter of $100M+ mega-rounds. KEY TAKEAWAYS.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2017

Which leads to the interesting case of Renaud Laplanche, the co-founder and former CEO of Lending Club and the co-founder and current CEO of online lender Upgrade. Both Lending Club and Laplanche are currently facing shareholder litigation that claims they concealed material weaknesses in the online lender’s ability to monitor its operations.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Here, we highlight some of last year’s most successful loan producers in the areas of agriculture, commercial and consumer/mortgage lending. The score combines the average of the bank’s percentile rank for lending concentration and for loan growth over the past year in each lending category. By Ed Avis. Methodology. AGRICULTURE.

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American Banker

MARCH 28, 2016

San Francisco Fed President John Williams discusses the potential for new fintech products to make predatory lending easier, whether big banks need to be broken up, and the likelihood of another recession.

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BankInovation

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Flowcast, a San Francisco-based credit-scoring startup, is working with banks to give a fintech advantage to large incumbents while also aiming to reach small businesses. Banks have been using very […].

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 18, 2016

Last week we observed an upsurge in collaborations between startups and financial institutions, but this week is all startup glory. There are some old pros still doing us proud with 9-figure rounds, like Affirm, but a major Korean vital force is not far behind, in the form of e-commerce and seriously chill Read More.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

San Francisco-based Chime launched in 2013, offering debit cards, savings accounts and checking accounts to consumers without any fees. “Our payment processor has been experiencing issues today, resulting in our app + website being down,” Chime said in a tweet on Thursday (Oct. Earlier this year, it reached a valuation of $1.5

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 25, 2020

I was comparing today’s situation with a previous disaster – the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco, where I was in charge of a bank’s disaster recovery plan. Digital Lending. An early survey of 93 banks done by Fintech Forge showed that 31% of respondents already had back-office employees working from home.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Ford Motor Company, for one, is on track to bring car buying into the digital age by leveraging software developed by San Francisco-based automotive FinTech startup AutoFi Inc. Ford’s lending arm also recently took an equity stake in AutoFi, said The Wall Street Journal , for an undisclosed amount.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

It wasn’t the only corporate T&E firm that secured new funding, though, nor was it the only B2B FinTech that raised venture capital. Reports in KFGO did not disclose the nature or value of the investment, though noted it is part of HSBC’s broader effort to invest in FinTech.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 29, 2015

ICBA warns of risks of online marketplace lending models. Online marketplace lenders are a new form of nonbank specialty lending that uses technology platforms to allow Wall Street and individual investors to directly fund loans to consumers and small businesses. Lend exclusively over online peer-to-peer platforms.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. That’s enough to send normal people into the fetal position.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 31, 2019

This lends credence to what market watchdogs are observing a paradigm, ‘the switching economy ,’ where consumers very quickly change who they business with and deem less satisfactory for the ones that provision them with better, richer experiences, and faster services. That answer is yes.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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Let's Talk Payments

APRIL 9, 2016

San Francisco (April 11, 2016) – National Funding, one of the largest private lenders of small business loans, today announced that Torrie Inouye has been named the company’s president.

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American Banker

JUNE 4, 2024

The San Francisco fintech's newest product seeks to improve lenders' underwriting decisions by identifying gig-work wages, buy now/pay later loans and other income streams gleaned from bank-account data.

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