A recent study conducted by Lending Club claims that 60% of Americans...
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According to the 2020 Mobile Deposit Benchmark Report by Cornerstone Advisors JPMorgan...
- MoneyLion Secures $42 Million Investment to Accelerate Growth
- Business-Loan Growth Fell Off a Cliff in 2017 and No One Can Figure Out Why
- ‘We don’t need to stay in the student market’: How BankMobile wants to grow its offering and replicate its model
- A Fight Over the Credit Score Lenders Use for Your Mortgage
- How banks use behavioral economics to win over customers
- Envestnet Finalizes Acquisition of FolioDynamix for $195 Million
- Prosper Marketplace Appoints Former Bank of America Executive Justine Metz Head of Marketing
- Tradeshift Partners with Infosys to Help Clients Digitize Supply Chain Management
- Commencement of Online Lending Service for Small Businesses That Leverages Accounting Big Data and AI Technology
- 95 Crypto Theses for 2018
- Merrill Lynch blocks bitcoin amid fear that the bubble could pop
Avaamo Raises $14.2M in Series A Funding BBVA Launches Global Payments System...
The native asset of NEO, formerly known as AntShares, has risen by more than 12,000% in the last seven months, according to figures from Coin Market Cap; NEO comes mostly with similar capabilities vs ethereum, just that NEO's smart contract platform NEO 2.0 supports traditional programming language while ethereum has its own programming language, Solidity; this edge will be crucial to making it a better option over ethereum for running initial coin offerings (ICOs) especially for upcoming Chinese projects. Source
HSBC has launched a digital wallet in Hong Kong that targets startups...
The SEC Small Business Advocate Act of 2016 (HR3784) was signed into law; the law will add a new office within the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for small business advocacy; the small business advocacy office will oversee and support regulation and investment activities for small businesses and small business investors; the new law will also establish a small business capital formation advisory committee that will advise the SEC on small business market activity. Source
Brex has announced a significant $150 million round at a time when...
Recently we learned that Direct Lending Investments, one of the largest fund...
LoanPaymentPro will be exhibiting at LendIt USA 2017; at the event the firm will be launching an advanced form of its Zero-Dollar Authorization (ZDA) technology; the ZDA technology provides lenders with a system for bankcard validation and account verification; through use of ZDA technology lenders can significantly lower their risk of fraud and defaults. Source