alt lending

iwoca Looks To Grow SME Alt Lending Access
iwoca Looks To Grow SME Alt Lending Access
March 30, 2017  |  Alternative Finances

Alternative lending was supposed to be the way SMEs broke through banking barriers to gain access to capital, enabling them to boost growth opportunities, investment...

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Alt-Lending Reshuffles, Auto Loan Alarm Bells And HHGregg Goes Bust
Alt-Lending Reshuffles, Auto Loan Alarm Bells And HHGregg Goes Bust
March 27, 2017  |  Data Dive

For those who are fans of big twists, stunning reversals and spectacular admissions of defeat, last week’s news cycle came as a sort of Christmas...

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Smart Sizzles, Dodd-Frank Fizzles And Sears Might Be Signing Off?
Smart Sizzles, Dodd-Frank Fizzles And Sears Might Be Signing Off?
March 24, 2017  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

Live by the fickle consumer, and, if you’re a (very) aging retailer, possibly die by the fickle consumer. In commerce, history only goes so far,...

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OnDeck Rides Wave’s SMB Platform
OnDeck Rides Wave’s SMB Platform
February 14, 2017  |  SMBs

In North America there are something like 26 million small businesses which have two things in common: they are small and most of them are...

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The CFPB Comes Out Swinging In 2017
The CFPB Comes Out Swinging In 2017
January 24, 2017  |  Alternative Finances

The now-sitting Trump administration has made no secret that it is no fan of the Dodd-Frank legislation that enables the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau to...

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Strategic Funding, Capify Merge SME Financing Efforts
Strategic Funding, Capify Merge SME Financing Efforts
January 09, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Two alternative SME lenders are joining forces. Strategic Funding Source announced Thursday (Jan. 5) that it is integrating the solutions of Capify’s own small business...

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How Blinker Wants To Disrupt Car Sales
How Blinker Wants To Disrupt Car Sales
December 20, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

The problem, according to Rod Buscher, CEO and founder of Blinker, is that most Americans need a car — meaning they often don’t feel they have...

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Lending Club’s Auto Lending Pivot
Lending Club’s Auto Lending Pivot
November 01, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

Trying something new and different is both one of the hallmarks of innovation and a typical option when a company finds that the same old...

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Is The Great Contraction Coming Soon To Alt Lending?
Is The Great Contraction Coming Soon To Alt Lending?
June 14, 2016  |  News

There is nothing we love more here at PYMNTS than … well, payments. There is little we find more inspiring than money moving from one...

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