Fintech companies around the world are receiving huge funding rounds at sky...
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When the government announced the first tranche of funding for the Paycheck...
PingAn Bank on Wednesday launches its robo-advisor services, which utilize black-litterman model and quantitative asset allocation methodology to customize users’ investment portfolio based on their risk preferences. Source (Chinese)
In an interview with AltFi, Mambu CEO Eugene Danilkis explained he thinks the UK is the fintech hub of Europe; the digital banking platform sees this as the case partly because the UK government has done a great deal on bring more competition into the banking system; with the government support you have seen dozens of banking applications submitted and new entrants like Starling Bank, Atom and OakNorth have success; Mambu provides software to incumbents and startups, telling AltFi, “Incumbents will have to think like fintechs in order to develop channels of servicing clients quickly, seamlessly and creatively.” Source.
As more financial services firms beginning using Google, Amazon and Microsoft for...
- Quantifying Randomness and Adverse Selection in Loan Allocation Methodologies
- Marketplace Lending: A New Banking Paradigm? (Harvard Business School)
- Sancus draws £17.5m from new Honeycomb facility
- Former JP Morgan Executive Launches Fintech Startup Zoe Financial to Help Millennials & Gen Xers Find Financial Advisors
- Exclusive: Y Combinator Backed Online Lending Platform Credy Rakes In $1.4 Mn Funding
- Retail Banks Play Valuable Role as First Line of Financial Advice for Customers, J.D. Power Finds
LendKey is a lending-as-a-service technology provider for banks and credit unions; the company has released a Student Loan Refinance Report discussing borrower trends at banks and credit unions; provides statistics on borrower demographics, lending preferences and loan performance; finds that the student loan refinance market is healthy and that borrowers are saving an average 2.2% in annual interest expense after refinancing. Source
The CEO and co-founder of Onfido tells us what is wrong with...
During the week I share the latest marketplace lending and fintech news...
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