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News Roundup
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Today, Intuit announced the launch of a new business bank account they...
With their recent acquisition of Credit Karma still fresh in everyone’s minds...
Intuit has launched a new lending product called QuickBooks Capital; clients of the accounting software provider will be able to access up to $35,000 in credit with terms between three and six months. Rania Succar, head of QuickBooks Capital stated, “As the largest small business accounting platform with approximately 2.4 million customers, the QuickBooks platform provides the most complete set of small business data available in the market.” Source
Intuit has partnered with BlueVine to make credit more easily available for its QuickBooks users; the partnership will allow small businesses using QuickBooks to obtain credit lines of up to $100,000; BlueVine will add a line of credit product offering to the borrowing options on QuickBooks which currently also include loans from Lending Club, OnDeck and Funding Circle. Source
We start out the week with yet another blockbuster fintech acquisition. The...
Over the weekend we learned that Intuit, the makers of TurboTax, Mint...

Invesco Perpetual has sold GBP9.6 million ($12.45 million) worth of shares in the Ranger Direct Lending Fund, reducing its stake to 27.9%; the GBP243 million ($315 million) Fund has been struggling in 2017; it primarily invests across the private debt landscape with a focus on private direct lenders; however its losses have been related to its exposure to troubled lending platform Argon Credit which it had invested in indirectly through the Princeton Alternative Fund; in February 2017 it reported a significant impairment charge for the investment and its value has been decreasing. Source
InvestCloud is helping automated investment platforms with ISA offerings through their newest product, Emerald; Nutmeg partnered with InvestCloud for its Lifetime ISA; InvestCloud now has over 670 clients using the Emerald technology. Source
Wirecard has announced that an external law firm is investigating accounting manipulations...



