This is a post from Sasha Orloff who co-founded LendUp and Mission Lane and previously was Senior Vice President at...
Prosper released its October 2016 performance report with the month's estimated return of 7.12% just below the estimate of 7.17% for the third quarter; in October, vintage prepayment rates continued to trend higher; delinquencies and loss patterns since 2013 are below levels in 2012; cumulative gross charge-offs appear to be a factor trending higher; average FICO of the portfolio was 714.1 in October. Source
PayPal and InComm are bringing touch-free payments to CVS stores across the U.S.; PayPal and InComm announced a QR code...
According to a new survey from CNBC and SurveyMonkey only 13 percent of small businesses were approved for loans through...
A group of 37 community groups sent a joint letter to the FDIC opposing the ILC application for the fintech...
U.S. Fintech ConnexPay Secures $7 Million Through Series A Funding Round Deep Dive: Small and local banks drive some of...
Lend Academy talks with John Donovan from Bizfi in their podcast; Bizfi provides balance sheet lending for merchant cash advances and also operates a multi-lender platform giving small businesses multiple loan funding options; Donovan talks about his career in online lending which began at Lending Club; he also discusses the dynamics of Bizfi's two business lines and some of the company's plans for the future. Source
Originally coined by Forrester in 2015 journey analytics has become a big buzzword in financial services; the term refers to...
Regulation in the US is far different than in China; CredEx is a Chinese company that shares the state of regulation there; Jo Ann Barefoot shares her perspective on regulation in the US, having spent most of her career working in consumer protection and financial inclusion; she believes that we have produced a regulatory system that has high cost and low value which has left consumers confused by products; while not discounting the importance of regulation, Barefoot shares that fintechs can do more to further goals around financial inclusion than regulation can; one area where the US is lagging behind much of the world, specifically China is in mobile adoption and regulators in the US are struggling to keep up as technology quickly changes. Source
The Small Business Administration has been at the center of the Trump administration’s plan to help SMBs survive as the...