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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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Fintech News Roundup

·Apr. 10, 2017

Fintech Firm StatPro Acquires UBS’ Delta Platform

StatPro acquired UBS' Delta platform for EUR 13 million ($13.7 million); news of the deal caused shares in the AIM listed StatPro to jump 10%; the deal will help StatPro to reach scale in terms of revenue and clients according to StatPro's CEO Justin Wheatley; the transaction shows that not only banks are able to acquire or partner with fintech firms, but fintech firms can look to acquire parts of a bank as well; in an interview with Business Insider Wheatley explained, "Acquisitions are part of our strategy, however in the short term this is a very big deal for StatPro — it adds 40% to our revenues — I think we'll be digesting this lump for a little while before we carry on but I certainly wouldn't rule out any more deals later on." Source

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Fintech News Roundup

·Apr. 10, 2017

Insurtech Startup Jetty Launches in Multiple States with $4mn in Funding

Jetty is an insurtech startup that focuses on insuring belongings in customers' apartments; the company also announced a $4 million seed round from investors that include Ribbit Capital, Box Group, Social Capital, SV Angel, Red Swan, MetaProp NYC and Solon Mack Capital; the company is initially offering property coverage, liability coverage, loss of use coverage and medical payments coverage; consumers have the ability to upgrade if they have high priced items in need of insurance; Jetty was founded in 2016. Source

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News Roundup Online Lending

·Apr. 10, 2017

Payday Lender Wonga Reporting Data Breach

Wonga offers short-term payday loans and is based in London; company has announced a data breach which may include personal information of 270,000 current and former customers; a majority of their customers affected are UK based, but 25,000 customers in Poland may also be affected; Wonga has recently reduced fees and launched 90-day loans after the Financial Conduct Authority instituted a rate cap and forced lenders to apply for authorization. Source

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News Roundup

·Apr. 8, 2017

Marketplace Lending News Roundup – April 8

During the week I share the latest marketplace lending news on Twitter...

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News Roundup Online Lending USA

·Apr. 7, 2017

Lend Academy Article: Renaud Laplanche is Back with a New Consumer Lending Platform Called Upgrade

Upgrade has launched for consumer lending; Lend Academy provides details on the platform's fundraising, lending criteria and lending structure; Renaud Laplanche has raised $60 million for the new company; its loans will focus on high credit quality borrowers with low debt-to-income and minimum monthly free cash flow of $1,000; loans range from $2,000 to $50,000; the platform will be partnering with WebBank for loan originations and will then acquire the loans and sell them to institutional investors with some portion of the loans retained on the firm's balance sheet. Source

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Fintech News Roundup

·Apr. 7, 2017

Google’s Influence on Goldman Sachs’ Communications

Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google's parent company, Alphabet has become CFO Marty Chavez's new mentor at Goldman Sachs; the relationship is part of a new initiative that has Goldman Sachs focused on making its services for risk comparable to Google's services for search; the bank wants to be the leading source for trading and managing risks giving its firm the attention of risk managers that Google gets from advertisers; to do this it has created Data Lake, a machine learning platform that manages information on transactions, markets and investment research as well as communication from emails, voice calls and instant messages; the new internal technology system is based on APIs that connect different parts of the business to the Data Lake central database making its communication processes more efficient. Source

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News Roundup Online Lending USA

·Apr. 7, 2017

Elevate Credit’s IPO

Online lender Elevate Credit (ELVT) began trading shares of company stock on Thursday; the firm's CEO Ken Rees talked with CNBC about subprime lending and the IPO; shares opened for the day at $6.50 with a 19% increase to close at $7.76 giving it a market cap of $270 million; the offering was below expectations which had the stock estimated at $12 to $14; the firm offers loans to subprime borrowers with an underwriting system that considers over 10,000 data points. Source

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Europe Fintech News Roundup

·Apr. 7, 2017

Monzo Announces Banking License Approvals

Monzo has received a full banking license from the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority; the licensing follows new fundraising that meets the banking capital requirements; it now plans to launch a current account and a current account overdraft product. Source

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News Roundup Online Lending USA

·Apr. 7, 2017

Follow Up Friday: Pro Forma Analysis of Originations for Kabbage and OnDeck

It has been reported that Kabbage is interested in acquiring OnDeck Capital. S&P Global recently published an analysis of a potential deal. This week Kabbage announced a new originations milestone of $3 billion since inception. We take a closer look at the originations and pro forma estimates of the two companies provided by S&P Global.

OnDeck's annual originations have increased from approximately $15.9 million in 2008 to $2.40 billion in 2016. Estimates from S&P Global show combined loan originations for the two firms of $3.82 billion for 2016. In addition to synergies from similar balance sheet and securitization funding sources, S&P Global also notes the increased value Kabbage could likely bring to OnDeck's line of credit product. Pro forma estimates put line of credit originations at approximately 50% for the combined entities. Kabbage has considerable expertise in small business line of credit lending and it's a product OnDeck launched in 2013 and has recently been focused on. Source

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Europe News Roundup Online Lending

·Apr. 7, 2017

Debate over a Standard Definition for Marketplace Loan Defaults

P2P lenders have been debating the definition of default as many investors seek standardization; Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA) members define a default when a loan is 45 days overdue and begin recovery collection at 120 days; non-P2PFA platforms have varying standards that fit with their business models, ranging from two consecutive months to 180 days to three missed payments; in the banking industry banks do not have a standard definition, focusing more on delinquent payment collections than actually labeling a loan in default. Source

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