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Ohpen, which provides banking technology services, is partnering with insurance giant Aegon; Aegon plans to replace standalone systems for pensions, savings, current accounts and wealth management with the new platform; Ohpen's technology runs on AWS and Aegon will plugin via the API-based interface; Chris Zadeh, Ohpen's CEO stated: "If you want to be ready for the future and save an enormous amount of code, you should have one administrative system for all these different brands. Aegon and Knab and their pensions will use the same cloud-based administrative system, and that's ours." Source
Fundbox is already operating in an open banking environment allowing third party access to information; “What Fundbox is doing is indicative of this next wave of open banking and leveraging APIs to embed functionality in the longer tail of places where small businesses do work,” said Alenka Grealish, senior analyst at Celent, to American Banker; the company learned from past integration issues and created Fundbox Fuse which is a set of HTML code for lite integration; they announced new integrations with Bookly, AND CO, Billy, Paid and Knowify with the hopes of integrating to thousands of platforms to help democratize access to credit. Source.
Credibility Capital has completed a sale of a pool of whole loans to a regional bank; details of the loan portfolio and regional bank were not included; according to Brett Baris, chief executive officer of Credibility Capital: "Orchard provided a seamless software solution that improved the process for both sides of the transaction. With Orchard's new tool we were able to easily share vast amounts of loan data with our client on a single, easy-to-use platform." Source
Jet Capital is a Dallas-based online lender primarily lending to underserved small businesses; it was launched in 2015 and currently focuses on businesses with 20 or fewer employees; the firm has identified Albuquerque as a growing target market with over 28,000 businesses in its target range; the firm's cash advances average approximately $25,000 and with the payouts, the company also purchases rights to future sales. Source
Oakam has originated more than 420,000 loans and over $275mn to customers with little or bad credit; the UK based lender uses credit bureau data and alternative data including network associations, behavioral data and chat data between potential customers and their agents; the combination of the data sources has allowed them to better asses risk to a client base mostly ignored by traditional financial firms. Source.
A report from Crowdfund Insider says AssetAvenue has stopped originating loans; the California-based marketplace lender was providing property loans through its digital platform; firm raised $11 million in a Series A funding round in 2015; the firm's loans were primarily averaging approximately $2 million and the platform was open to all types of investors. Source
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Scott Sanborn discussed the current market environment for online lending in his speech at LendIt USA comparing the industry to the growth of online retail and using Amazon as an example for how businesses can dramatically change and adapt to provide the best services for market needs; online lenders will have to be strategic in identifying market opportunities, building on their proprietary systems and partnering with other companies; Ash Gupta from American Express also noted at the conference the challenges and opportunities presented to online lending through the use of big data; the growing amount of data sourced by the industry has the potential to improve credit models and fraud prevention while also providing broader capabilities through machine learning technology. Source