Alt Lending news and trends

Digital Lending Marketplace Offers $3M In Financing To Amazon Sellers
Retail // May 05, 2020

Digital lending marketplace BitX Funding, which matches business owners and non-bank lenders, is aiming to help Amazon third-party (3P) sellers grow. The company has brought in more than $50 million in financing for small companies throughout the country since 2013 by “breaking down the barriers...

Interest Rates to Pinch Alt Lenders and Digital Banks
Banking // March 11, 2020

Welcome to the unchartered territory for the lending landscape – at least for those who were born and came of age in the new Millennium, in the digital age… …and post the Great Recession. They say history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does indeed rhyme....

Fed: Two-Thirds Of SMBs Are Dissatisfied With Online Lenders
Loans // January 14, 2020

In the wake of the Great Recession, small businesses found it difficult to secure loans via banks – and even when they were available, the common complaint was that the application process was slow, time-consuming, paper-intensive and ill-suited to the needs of small businesses. From...

Why Migrant Workers Need Their Own Financial Services
Alternative Finances // October 08, 2019

According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, as of 2018 (the last full year for which data is available), there were 28.2 million foreign-born persons in the U.S. labor force – representing roughly 17 percent of the total number. Foreign workers in the U.S. come from all...

Interviews & Exclusives
Interest Rates to Pinch Alt Lenders and Digital Banks

March 11, 2020
Welcome to the unchartered territory for the lending landscape – at least for those who were born and came of age in the new Millennium, in the digital age… …and post the Great Recession. They say history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does indeed rhyme. For the neobanks that are now encountering precipitously falling interest […]

Why Migrant Workers Need Their Own Financial Services

October 08, 2019
According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, as of 2018 (the last full year for which data is available), there were 28.2 million foreign-born persons in the U.S. labor force –...

Ripio CEO: Reinventing P2P Lending With The Blockchain

May 08, 2018
Ripio has had more than one name in its evolution as a firm – but only a single goal. Originally known as BitPagos at launch, and then rebranding to Ripio...

Moving Mortgages Into The Mobile Era

March 13, 2018
Millennials, we have long been assured, were never, ever going to buy houses. Some hypothesized that the lingering memory of the Great Recession’s origins in profligate mortgage underwriting would scare them away...

Quick Reads
Affirm Updates BNPL App Ahead of Holiday Shopping Season

October 30, 2024
Ahead of the holiday shopping season, payments network Affirm is upgrading its app. The company, known for its buy now, pay later (BNPL) offering, now provides users with — among other things — easier access to personalized payment terms and interest-free offers via its app, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 30) press release. The changes […]

Digital Lending Marketplace Offers $3M In Financing To Amazon Sellers

May 05, 2020
Digital lending marketplace BitX Funding, which matches business owners and non-bank lenders, is aiming to help Amazon third-party (3P) sellers grow. The company has brought in more than $50 million...

P2P Chinese Lender Dianrong Seeks $100M Amid Regulations

April 17, 2019
Chinese peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Dianrong wants to raise $100 million in an attempt to outlast a regulatory squeeze on the industry in the country, according to a report in the...

Mike Cagney’s Figure Launches Blockchain-Powered Online Home Equity Loans

October 10, 2018
Mike Cagney first made his name in financial services as the founder and CEO of SoFi, an alternative credit startup that got its start re-refinancing student loans for graduates of...