Loan news and trends

Latest Personal Loan Provider Ranking Not Its Usual Settled Self This Month 
Mobile Applications // October 22, 2021

It’s an expensive world. Recent PYMNTS research finds a great many high-earning people in younger demographic groups living paycheck-to-paycheck, for example.  This is where personal loans can enter the frame, with some helpful bridge financing.   Pretty self-explanatory when you think about it. But not all...

BlueVine Names David Quinn as CFO
Personnel // September 16, 2021

SMB financial services company BlueVine on Thursday (Sept. 16) announced it has hired David Quinn as its new chief financial officer. Quinn has more than 25 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry, most recently as the commercial bank chief financial officer...

Amex Partners With Better, Rocket Mortgage On Home Loans
Loans // June 30, 2021

Those looking to get home loans will now be able to do so through American Express (Amex) and its new partnership with two FinTechs, Better and Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans, CNBC reported Wednesday (June 30). Those who are Amex customers who get mortgages from...

Chico’s FAS On Offering BNPL And Why Payment Options Are Not One-Size-Fits-All
Buy Now Pay Later // January 26, 2021

For clothing shoppers, flexible payment options can mean the difference between springing for a new wardrobe piece or missing out on a coveted purchase. In the Buy Now, Pay Later Tracker, Stacey Blicker, VP of digital for fashion retailer Chico’s FAS, explains how buy now,...

Interviews & Exclusives
Unifund CEO Consumer Credit Caution: “Time To Stop Getting Lost In The Averages”

July 19, 2017
Credit, and the consumer’s relationship with it, has changed rather dramatically over time. But those changes can only be seen if one takes a big step back and looks across the intersection of credit products, credit usage and consumer behavior. Fifty years ago, when customers thought about using credit, it was in the context of […]

Lendio And Comcast Pair On SMB Lending

June 13, 2017
SMB online lending marketplace Lendio and Comcast announced a collaboration on a pilot program that will give Comcast Business customers easier access to Lendio’s marketplace and network of more than...

How Fraud Data Streamlines Digital Loan Decisioning

June 13, 2017
At least two-thirds of consumers who go online apply for a loan. In our latest Data Drivers, Joe DeCosmo, chief analytics officer at Enova, and Kevin King, director of product...

Quick Reads
BlueVine Names David Quinn as CFO

September 16, 2021
SMB financial services company BlueVine on Thursday (Sept. 16) announced it has hired David Quinn as its new chief financial officer. Quinn has more than 25 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry, most recently as the commercial bank chief financial officer at Silicon Valley Bank, where he provided support for business […]

Amex Partners With Better, Rocket Mortgage On Home Loans

June 30, 2021
Those looking to get home loans will now be able to do so through American Express (Amex) and its new partnership with two FinTechs, Better and Rocket Mortgage by Quicken...

Brooks Brothers Receives Offer Of $80M No-Interest Loan

July 13, 2020
Brooks Brothers has locked in a $80 million loan without interest after the iconic American retailer filed for bankruptcy, Hypebeast reported. Garrett Fail, the merchant’s attorney, said to U.S. Bankruptcy...

SBA, Treasury Fail To Release PPP Loan Data

July 06, 2020
The Treasury Department and Small Business Administration (SBA) don’t seem likely to release the data this week on Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans as they’d said, The Washington Post reports....