Even as crypto firms are able to raise billions in capital they...
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CAN Capital Inc. has hired an advisor to help the business after halting loan originations and releasing senior executives; Realization Services Inc. has been hired to help the firm negotiate with creditors and strategy investment banking advisor Jefferies; CAN Capital has been lending to small businesses since 1998 with $6.5 billion in loans and cash advances; near the end of 2016 the firm reported data irregularities and issues with loan performance and collections. Source
During the week I share the latest p2p lending news on Twitter as it...
Remittances is a huge business with over $600 billion remitted every year; the fintech startups currently leading are WorldRemit, TransferWise and Remitly; the WSJ breaks down the various offerings as well as the other players in the industry; includes data on the remittance market across the globe and trends in the industry. Source
The deal is probably the first of its kind as two pension...
Talking with Karen Webster of PYMNTS, NovoPayment CEO Anabel Perez said that...
Zopa provides 2016 year end stats; in total they lent 680 million British pounds ($830 million); helped 20,000 people improve their home and 29,000 buy a car; the company also highlights several awards they won including Most Trusted Loan Provider by Moneywise for the seventh year in a row; the company struck many partnerships including offering phone finance with Unshackled, loans through personal finance app Pariti and a partnership with Airbnb; company also launched three new lending products for investors with varying risk and return profiles; in 2016 we also saw the first securitization of Zopa loans and learned of Zopa's plans to apply for a banking license. Source
With coronavirus causing economic havoc around the world lenders find themselves with...
A new survey from Deloitte and the Financial Services Information Sharing and...
Babak Hodjat is managing a hedge fund in San Francisco run completely by artificial intelligence (AI); his firm Sentient Technologies Inc. has been building an AI system for analyzing markets and automating trading for over a decade; performance for the firm is not publicly disclosed; numerous firm's in the wealth management industry are using some form of unbiased automated trading however Sentient is one of few firms that completely uses AI technology for comprehensively managing assets. Source