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Funding Circle, Farm Bureau Bank Partner to Offer Credit to Underserved SMBs
Funding Circle, Farm Bureau Bank Partner to Offer Credit to Underserved SMBs
August 11, 2022  |  SMBs

Online small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending platform Funding Circle and Farm Bureau Bank have announced a partnership that they say will help underserved owners...

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Partnerships, Credit Platform Expansion Help Drive Marqeta’s TPV up 53% in Q2
Partnerships, Credit Platform Expansion Help Drive Marqeta’s TPV up 53% in Q2
August 10, 2022  |  Earnings

Card issuing platform Marqeta has reported good quarterly results, including a 53% increase in revenue and a slew of new business updates and expansions, a...

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Trading Partners Prefer Faster Lending Decisions Delivered by In-House Credit Bureaus
Trading Partners Prefer Faster Lending Decisions Delivered by In-House Credit Bureaus
August 08, 2022  |  Buy Now Pay Later

While the buy now, pay later (BNPL) solution has exploded in recent years and continues to transform payments in the business-to-consumer (B2C) space, similar models...

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Crypto-Spend Debit Card Rewards Go Back to Earth
Crypto-Spend Debit Card Rewards Go Back to Earth
August 05, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Slowly, the crypto-back rewards on Visa and Mastercard debit cards that let you spend your cryptocurrency holdings at checkout and point-of-sale are coming back to...

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Will Buy Now, Pay Later Change the Factoring Facts of Life?
Will Buy Now, Pay Later Change the Factoring Facts of Life?
August 05, 2022  |  Buy Now Pay Later

Some view buy now, pay later (BNPL) for business-to-business (B2B) payments as a bridge too far from the now-stressed consumer sector equivalent. There is a...

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FinTechs Build Critical Credit Capability With Secured Credit Cards
FinTechs Build Critical Credit Capability With Secured Credit Cards
August 05, 2022  |  Credit Cards

Roy Ng knows how difficult life can be when full economic access always seems just out of reach. Relaying a story of moving to the U.S....

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2 in 3 Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumers Prefer to Pay Drs. With Credit
2 in 3 Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumers Prefer to Pay Drs. With Credit
August 04, 2022  |  Connected Economy

What can payments preference tell us about differences in healthcare consumers? In basic terms, those on a solid financial footing stick to the familiar —...

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Credit Fair Raises $10M in Extended Seed Round to Grow Embedded Finance Platform
Credit Fair Raises $10M in Extended Seed Round to Grow Embedded Finance Platform
August 03, 2022  |  Investments

Embedded finance startup Credit Fair raised $10 million in a debt and equity seed extension round it will use to grow its platform to advance financial inclusion...

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Credit Crunch Looms for Auto Lenders as Paycheck-to-Paycheck Pressures Intensify
Credit Crunch Looms for Auto Lenders as Paycheck-to-Paycheck Pressures Intensify
August 02, 2022  |  Loans

The credit crunch looms for auto lenders — perhaps most imminently for those lending to the subprime market. To that end, and as noted Tuesday...

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