Alternative Lending news and trends

Nonbank Lenders Pose Risks to Traditional Banks as Private Credit Surges

June 18, 2024
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B2B Companies Embrace Invoice Financing to Drive Business Continuity
B2B Payments // May 30, 2024

As businesses evolve, so too do the ways in which they pay and get paid. After all, cash flow is the lifeblood of any business. Against that backdrop, there exists a broader trend in the FinTech industry where innovative solutions are transforming the traditional landscape...

APAC Middle-Market Leaders Embrace External Financing for Growth
Loans // May 14, 2024

We are in the midst of a working capital revolution — one that is increasingly driven by innovation and made more necessary by the macroeconomic backdrop, particularly for those middle-market firms generating annual revenues between $50 million and $1 billion. As more firms seek out and put external capital to work,...

Consumers Invest 88% More on Education When Using Embedded Lending
Consumer Insights // May 09, 2024

Embedded lending is a credit option that many merchants and financial institutions deliver to their customers to reduce friction and streamline purchasing. As consumers go through checkout — either in-store or online — they might be invited to cover the cost of the purchase with a new credit card. Or they...

How Alternative Solutions Are Challenging Traditional Credit Models for SMBs
SMBs // May 08, 2024

A record-breaking number of new business applications were filed in the United States last year; 5.5 million, to be exact. While that’s a great sign for American entrepreneurship, the surge in new businesses may put traditional business lending solutions under a strain that they’re unprepared to manage. Businesses commonly need external financing both to invest...

Interviews & Exclusives
B2B Companies Embrace Invoice Financing to Drive Business Continuity

May 30, 2024
As businesses evolve, so too do the ways in which they pay and get paid. After all, cash flow is the lifeblood of any business. Against that backdrop, there exists a broader trend in the FinTech industry where innovative solutions are transforming the traditional landscape of accounts receivable (AR) and invoice financing. There are three […]

APAC Middle-Market Leaders Embrace External Financing for Growth

May 14, 2024
We are in the midst of a working capital revolution — one that is increasingly driven by innovation and made more necessary by the macroeconomic backdrop, particularly for those middle-market firms generating annual revenues between $50...

Small Business, Banks Embrace Credit Alternatives

March 21, 2024
Banks — the stalwarts of traditional lending — are finding new channels and conduits to getting capital to borrowers, across alternative channels, and with FinTech collaborations forged and expanded. Alternative...

Masa Finance Founder Believes Crypto Credit Scores Are DeFi’s Great Equalizer

July 11, 2022
If you took the collateral out of decentralized lending, you’d have something not only potentially useful, but scalable into the real economy. So said the Bank for International Settlement (BIS)...

Quick Reads
UK Sees Surge in Pawnbroking as Inflation Continues to Rise

July 31, 2022
Higher living costs have created more demand from borrowers looking for small loans, leading a number of individuals in the United Kingdom to explore the options available through pawnbrokers. There’s also been a crackdown on high-interest lenders, which has left less options for customers, the Financial Times reported Friday (July 29). Per the report, listed […]

UK Expands Interest-Free Emergency Loans to Needy

June 19, 2022
The U.K. No Interest Loans Scheme (Nils), backed by the treasury, will now be expanded to reach up to 20,000 people, a report says. Nils will reportedly offer emergency loans...

Are There Clouds on the BNPL Horizon?

June 01, 2022
An increase in delinquencies, combined with a slowing economy, could spell trouble for the future of buy now, pay later (BNPL) companies. That’s according to a report Wednesday (June 1)...

University eCommerce’s OCM Adopts Splitit Installments-as-a-Service Platform

May 17, 2022
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider Splitit on Tuesday (May 17) unveiled an Installments-as-a-Service platform that relies on consumer credit on payment cards to streamline the checkout experience embedded in...