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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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News RoundupOnline Lending
·Jan. 18, 2017

Lend Academy Article: It Is Time to Get the Gatekeepers Involved in Online Lending

The marketplace lending industry has evolved with investments coming from a range of market channels; to help marketplace loans integrate even further into the mainstream the industry needs involvement from 'gatekeepers' and needs to educate the asset allocator community; Lend Academy discusses the investment consultant process to bring new types of investments to asset allocators; to help facilitate this communication, LendIt is offering asset allocators free tickets to LendIt USA 2017 and is planning a special event at the conference for asset allocators, hosted by fund managers.  Source

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FintechNews Roundup
·Feb. 4, 2020

More News for February 4th, 2020

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Asia/PacNews RoundupOnline Lending
·Apr. 12, 2017

MoolahSense Adds Invoice Financing Product

Singapore-based marketplace lender MoolahSense has added invoice financing; the service will provide another lending product for businesses; the firm's CEO says the product is intended to extend the business services it provides to underserved small businesses; the product will be available for short-term capital needs of up to $15,000 and is expected to target returns of 12% for investors. Source

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FintechNews RoundupUSA
·Jan. 3, 2018

Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund Bets Heavy on Bitcoin

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Founders Fund has amasses hundreds of millions of dollars or bitcoin recently; the fund started with about $10mn to $15mn worth of bitcoin and has since seen that initial investment skyrocket; while many traditional wall street names have yet to buy into bitcoin the move by Mr. Thiel and his fund point to their confidence in the currency; during an interview in October Mr. Thiel was reported to say, “While I’m skeptical of most of them, I do think people are a little bit underestimating bitcoin, specifically, because it is like a reserve form of money.” Source.

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FintechNews RoundupUSA
·Apr. 29, 2020

Affirm Eyes Expansion Amid Current Crisis

Buy now pay later startups like Affirm have seen a big boost...
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FintechNews Roundup
·Mar. 28, 2018

Announcements & Releases for March 28, 2018

  • Lending Earnings Insights: 1Q2018 (PeerIQ)
  • With Marcus, Goldman Sachs takes on consumer banking
  • Can blockchain ease banks’ digital-identity concerns?
  • Marshall Lux Joins Marlette Funding as an Advisor
  • How You May Benefit from Additional Data When Reviewing Subprime Applicants
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FintechNews Roundup
·Oct. 30, 2017

Fintech Companies See the Value in Alternative Data in China

Only 25 percent of the Chinese population is considered to have a traditional credit score; for non bank lenders gathering alternative data like transactions and social media has helped them to identify potential borrowers who the banks will not serve; Ant Financial has built out Sesame Credit who gathers this type of data and other online lenders have also begun using different data pieces to assess risk. Source.

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EuropeFintechNews Roundup
·Feb. 22, 2019

UK Challenger Banks Awarded $365mn of of RBS Competition Fund

UK based challenger banks Starling Bank, Metro Bank and ClearBank were awarded...
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FintechNews RoundupUSA
·Mar. 2, 2020

MoneyGram FastSend Could Take Off Due to Coronavirus

While coronavirus is causing turmoil throughout global markets and businesses there could...
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News RoundupOnline LendingUSA
·Aug. 9, 2017

LendingClub’s CIO Provides Platform Update

Blog post outlines platform performance and improving delinquency rates across most grades and terms; provides perspective on the economic backdrop and interest rates; the company has updated their loss forecasts; projected returns are similar to last quarter with small increases for grades F and G. Source

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