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News Roundup

This page contains an archive of the Global Newsletter summaries and the weekly fintech news roundups.


Every day the Fintech Nexus news team scours the globe for the most important stories of the day to include in our daily newsletter.


Then every Saturday we bring you our weekly news roundup of the top 10 fintech stories of the week with commentary from Peter Renton.


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EuropeNews RoundupOnline Lending
·Apr. 4, 2017

AltFi Data Partners with Lendix

Marketplace lending data analytics provider AltFi Data has partnered with Lendix and will incorporate the lender's data on its analytics platform; AltFi Data is a leading performance data provider for the marketplace lending industry providing a single methodology for calculating platform performance across all lenders; its data reporting includes a range of attributes and data points including net returns, benchmark comparisons, originations, lending rates and charge-off rates.  Source

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Asia/PacNews RoundupOnline Lending
·Apr. 4, 2017

Anatomy of a Fast Growing P2P Fintech Disruptor in Emerging Asia

The China market is bigger than the US and they tend to move much faster; Emmanuel Daniel of The Asian Banker compares China today to 1971-1984 in the US when regulation was just beginning to be put in place; Credit China is an example of a successful P2P lender in China, now valued at $3 billion; Yew Kiat Phang speaks about the company, sharing how they initially were a traditional lender, constrained by capital and customers with single revenue streams; the company took a broad approach to fintech, first obtaining a third party payment license; company reported $12 billion in 2016 on their P2P lending platform; their payment gateway saw $30 billion in flow for 2016; Yew Kiat Phang shares other details on the company in the video.  Source

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News RoundupOnline LendingUSA
·Apr. 4, 2017

Bond Street Partners with NerdWallet to Market Small Business Marketplace Loans

Bond Street is partnering with NerdWallet to develop small business lending resources to educate small businesses on its loans; resources will include service from NerdWallet's Small Business Loan Tool as well as guides and webinars on marketplace lending and small business planning; with the partnership, Bond Street intends to more broadly market and service small business lenders with its loan offerings which range from $10,000 to $1 million.  Source

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News RoundupOnline LendingUSA
·Apr. 4, 2017

AutoGravity Releases Platform Statistics

AutoGravity was founded in 2015 and recently launched in 46 states; its mobile app provides users with four personalized auto financing offers on their smartphone; their statistics report over a quarter million users have downloaded the app and notes that its financing network includes 1,400 franchise dealers; the firm's report also includes demographics of users and types of cars purchased, among other statistics.  Source

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FintechNews RoundupUSA
·Apr. 4, 2017

PayPal in Court Case Involving Venmo

Shareholders of PayPal have sued firm directors implying that management falsified statements in quarterly reporting related to Venmo; as a subsidiary of PayPal, Venmo's business activities influence the overall results of the firm; in 2016 Venmo was investigated for unfair and deceptive practices resulting in a fine and ongoing investigations with the FTC; shareholders are arguing that PayPal did not properly disclose and inform shareholders of the implications of the investigations which led to shareholder losses of approximately 15%.  Source

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FintechNews RoundupUSA
·Apr. 4, 2017

Lending Club Hires JPMorgan Executive

Lending Club has hired Santiago Suarez, JPMorgan's head of new technologies; he will join Lending Club as the firm's head of strategy and mergers and acquisitions; at JPMorgan, Suarez was involved with testing blockchain and machine learning; he also worked in the bank's corporate strategy group, focused on managing top strategy issues for the bank.  Source

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News RoundupOnline LendingUSA
·Apr. 4, 2017

Prosper Joins Global Debt Registry Network

Global Debt Registry (GDR) has been steadily growing its business now announcing that Prosper will join the firm's verification network; by partnering with GDR, Prosper can enhance the reporting for its institutional investors; according to John Goldston, director of capital markets at Prosper, "GDR's eValidation and eVerify asset certainty tools fit easily into our existing data structures and processes, allowing our investors to seamlessly access GDR's enhanced verification and loan-level diligence services."  Source

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FintechNews RoundupRegulationUSA
·Apr. 4, 2017

Patrick McHenry on Expectations for Dodd-Frank

Representative Patrick McHenry says Dodd-Frank reform is not likely to make it to the House of Representatives until June or July; he is confident in major changes for the regulation from the House of Representatives however he foresees opposition from Senate democrats; in an interview with WSJ Pro Financial Regulation he also provided his insight on a range of regulatory aspects which could be integrated into legislation in various ways.  Source

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EuropeNews RoundupOnline Lending
·Apr. 4, 2017

Diverging Viewpoints on Becoming a Bank from Funding Circle and Zopa

Funding Circle and Zopa both discussed the rationale for becoming a bank at the AltFi Europe Summit; Funding Circle's Samir Desai talked about three ways online lenders are collaborating with banks and said, "We at Funding Circle have no plans to launch a bank."; comparatively, Zopa is taking the opposite approach and Jaidev Janardana discussed the firm's bank expansion, noting that the firm will be focusing on savings deposit accounts and will be using deposits to fund loans.  Source

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EuropeNews RoundupOnline Lending
·Apr. 4, 2017

European March Origination Volumes

P2P-banking.com has released its monthly report on marketplace lending originations; top lenders for the month included Funding Circle with EUR 142.3 million ($151.56 million), Zopa with EUR 101.6 million ($108.21 million) and RateSetter with EUR 65.4 million ($69.66 million); during the month both Mintos and Moneything reached new origination milestones since inception; the report does not include data from US lenders.  Source

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