Reports on the efforts of Kevin Karrels at First Tennessee, a bank with $29.4 billion in assets; joining the digital team, Karrels was involved in ensuring that the bank caught up with digital market competition; American Banker outlines factors involved with the digital initiative including the replacement of vendors with D3 Banking and the implementation of D3 Banking's online and mobile banking technologies. Source
PayPal’s shares have climbed close to 75 percent in 2017 and now is considered more valuable than American Express; their market cap has doubled since spinning off from eBay in 2015; while it now finds itself on the heels of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs there is still some who fear they might be valued a bit too high; acquisitions, product diversification and partnership agreements have helped push the company in the last year. Source.
The company has finalized their $260 million Series E round which was led by Coatue Management; other investors in the...
The bank reported solid growth in their lending business but remains cautious of downturn; the bank raised their loan loss...
Alternative data scoring considerations are becoming more prevalent in today's credit market; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced a public comment period seeking feedback on the potential use of alternative credit sources such as mobile phone bills and rent payments in credit approvals; the CFPB is seeking to identify how it might be able to serve consumers with minimal credit history; it says that approximately 26 million Americans have no credit histories and an additional 19 million consumers lack enough credit information to produce a credit score. Source
The Financial Times reviews company and loan performance at various online lenders; shares that Shanda Group bought more shares of LendingClub after forecasts were adjusted last week; LendingClub also recently stopped making F & G grade loans available to investors; broadly, delinquency rates have increased across online lenders; valuations of other companies such as Earnest and Prosper have also been affected. Source
Miles Reidy is a partner at QED and spearheads the VC firm’s regtech initiatives; Reidy talks about his background, why regtech has its origins in the changes brought on by the financial crisis, the differences that regtech is making in financial services today and more. Source
Digital banks secured $3bn in 2019 as venture capitalists poured money into banking startups looking to upend the traditional banking...

Sallie Krawcheck previously worked as a Wall Street executive but has since founded Ellevest; the company offers a digital investing platform helping female investors access low-cost ETFs based on goals; Venus Williams, a professional tennis player, is among investors in the company; according to Krawcheck, women are less concerned with beating the market and focus rather on ensuring their money won't disappear completely; the platform also considers the longer lifespans of women and the possibility of extended time off from work; Business Insider provides screenshots of setting up an account; the app is not yet in the app store. Source
Payments technology startup Finix has raised a $35mn series B round led by Sequoia Capital; businesses are able to buy...
