Microloan facts: Kiva, MyC4 and MicroPlace Kiva.org MicroPlace.com MyC4.com Launched November 2005 Summer 2006 May 2006 Who can become a...
The canary is now 10+ years old as prominent platforms like SoFi and Upstart launched in the early 2010s, and Freedom Financial (now Achieve) has been around for two decades.
Microlending was pioneered by an economics professor named Mohammed Yunus who became frustrated by the cycle of poverty he saw...
Todd Anderson sat down with financial services leaders to discuss a possible recession and what it could mean for SMB lending.
A longtime SMB lender toward its own seller network, Amazon will begin offering official short-term loans up to $100,000.
“Amazon came to us with this incredible idea,” CEO and Founder Everett K. Sands said.
According to TransUnion Insights, in Q3 2022 consumers turned to unsecured personal loans and credit cards for breathing room.
The second (third?) round of the Paycheck Protection Program kicked off today and it was very different to when the...
As B2B payment technology catches up to other areas of fintech, TreviPay CEO Brandon Spear said exciting trends are emerging. In late 2023, TreviPay released the B2B Buyers Payments Preference Study. It updates similar research conducted in 2019.
Silicon Valley Bank is still open for business for fintech companies. In many ways, even though it is now part of First Citizens Bank, it is very similar to what it was before, at least from a fintech perspective.
Today, Upstart released their first quarterly earnings since their IPO in December. And it was a very strong quarter indeed....