alternative lending

How To Bring ‘Invisibles’ Into The Credit Fold
How To Bring ‘Invisibles’ Into The Credit Fold
October 26, 2017  |  Alternative Finances

How much of the U.S. population is financially vulnerable? That is, how many are walking the razor’s edge of solvency, and how many are on...

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Affirm Mobile App Takes Honest Finance To All Online Merchants
Affirm Mobile App Takes Honest Finance To All Online Merchants
October 23, 2017  |  Retail

What are credit cards all about? If you said, “Payments – duh,” you’re only half right. The whole point of buying things on credit, is...

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SoFi Tried To Sell Itself For $8B Earlier This Year
SoFi Tried To Sell Itself For $8B Earlier This Year
October 23, 2017  |  Alternative Finances

According to reports in The Financial Times, SoFi explored the possibility of an $8 billion sale earlier this year — a process that went far enough...

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Big-Name Backers Pump $324 Million Into B2B FinTech
Big-Name Backers Pump $324 Million Into B2B FinTech
October 13, 2017  |  B2B Payments

B2B FinTech saw one of its most stellar funding weeks in a while, led, of course, by the high-profile Bill.com investment. But that wasn’t the...

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Traditional Lenders Strengthened September SMB Lending Activity
Traditional Lenders Strengthened September SMB Lending Activity
October 12, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Just days after the Federal Reserve released a report highlighting the changing role of small business loans at community banks, the latest Biz2Credit Small Business...

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Capital Float Pursues Alt-Lending Collaboration
Capital Float Pursues Alt-Lending Collaboration
October 06, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Two Indian alternative lenders are partnering up to target the nation’s small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Reports in The Economic Times on Thursday (Oct. 5) said Tata...

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Alternative Finance’s Popularity Won’t Break With Investors
Alternative Finance’s Popularity Won’t Break With Investors
October 06, 2017  |  B2B Payments

On Thursday (Oct. 5), Alenka Grealish, senior analyst at Celent, penned an article for American Banker with a prediction: The small business (SMB) credit space is...

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FinTech Has Yet To Make Impact On Trade Finance Gap
FinTech Has Yet To Make Impact On Trade Finance Gap
September 27, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Trade finance revenue is slipping at the world’s largest banks, especially as companies struggle in a global trade environment operating with a $1.5 trillion gap...

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Australia Rises In Global Alt-Lending Ranks
Australia Rises In Global Alt-Lending Ranks
September 25, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Australia is now the Asia Pacific region’s second-largest alternative finance market, largely due to a favorable regulatory climate, according to new KPMG analysis. The Australian...

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