alternative lending

Tienda Pago Lands Funding For Mobile, One-Week SMB Loans
Tienda Pago Lands Funding For Mobile, One-Week SMB Loans
April 10, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Alternative lender Tienda Pago is bringing attention to Latin America’s small business (SMB) finance market with new funding announced. Reports in ImpactAlpha on Monday (April...

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Lending FinTech GreenSky Files For IPO
Lending FinTech GreenSky Files For IPO
April 03, 2018  |  IPO

Lending FinTech GreenSky has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO). The Wall Street Journal reported that the Atlanta-based company, which enables retailers,...

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Amid Blockchain And Robotics Hype, Corporate Lenders Still Start With The Cloud
Amid Blockchain And Robotics Hype, Corporate Lenders Still Start With The Cloud
April 02, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Consumers demand easy, digital banking, but this pressure for banks to deliver is also coming from corporate clients. Take mobile banking, which has propelled the...

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Fed Vice Chair Reflects On Small Business Loan Industry Evolution
Fed Vice Chair Reflects On Small Business Loan Industry Evolution
April 02, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Randal K. Quarles, the Federal Reserve’s vice chairman for supervision, recently spoke at the HOPE Global Forums Annual Meeting to reflect on the changes endured...

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Point-Of-Sale Flexibility Inflates Spend
Point-Of-Sale Flexibility Inflates Spend
March 28, 2018  |  Point of Sale

Talk to anyone in the U.S. credit space, and they can tell you about their access to consumer information, such as name, income, education, voting...

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Online Lending Firm Upstart Targets $100 Million In Funding
Online Lending Firm Upstart Targets $100 Million In Funding
March 28, 2018  |  Loans

Online lending startup Upstart is hoping to raise about $100 million in funding. According to Bloomberg, one source said that the California-based startup is looking...

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Changing The Direction Of Debt Collection
Changing The Direction Of Debt Collection
March 27, 2018  |  Alternative Finances

Debt collectors are historically an unpopular group of people. Even the Bible has shade to throw their way. (Debt collectors, Biblically speaking, share a category...

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The $300B Employee Financial Stress Tax On Employers
The $300B Employee Financial Stress Tax On Employers
March 27, 2018  |  Data Drivers

Financial stress costs employers $300 billion in lost employee productivity. And in the case of one desperate employee, her job when not having the money...

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Seedrs Aims For Boosted Visibility Via Finpoint Partnership
Seedrs Aims For Boosted Visibility Via Finpoint Partnership
March 23, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Small business crowdfunding platform Seedrs announced a collaboration with commercial finance broker Finpoint, reports in Crowdfund Insider said on Thursday (March 22). The publication said...

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