Consumer Finance

Consumer financing is when a business offers financing to their customers with help from a professional finance company. This allows the consumer to pay for a good or service they couldn't pay for up front in cash or credit card. Consumer finance is helpful for both businesses and consumers
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Banks Aggressively Push Peer-to-Peer Loans
October 09, 2014

Bidding for peer-to-peer loans has become highly competitive, as small banks have joined fast-money and retail investors searching online marketplaces for the strongest and highest-yielding credits, according to American Banker. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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Guess What? Alibaba And Tencent Are Now Bankers
October 06, 2014

China’s two biggest online services already have large payments operations — and now both have permission to be bankers, too. On Monday (Sept. 29), Alibaba Group’s Alipay affiliate won permission from the China Banking Regulatory Commission to set up a privately owned bank, according to...

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Consumers Still Bummed About Their Finances
April 02, 2014

Americans in February were less concerned, though still pessimistic, about their current financial situation than they were at the end of the government shutdown last October, according to the Finance Optimism Index launched April 1, by the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) and AOL Inc. Get...