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Lending Club’s Terrible Twos

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I crossed paths with Laplanche back in 2007 and wanted to back him right away,” Petrushka said. When I founded my first startup, it got me thinking — banks are middlemen that can and should be disrupted,” Laplanche noted in a 2007 interview on how he came up with the idea of Lending Club. IPO of the year. banks at the time.

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The Fastest Path To Faster Payments In The US

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But, don’t look for the recommendation to kill checks to emerge from the report that the 500+ person Fed Task Force that’s examining the path forward for the U.S. But, don’t look for the recommendation to kill checks to emerge from the report that the 500+ person Fed Task Force that’s examining the path forward for the U.S.

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Lending Club Raises Average Rate to 0.25% for New Loans

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After the Fed raised interest rates earlier this month, I received a lot of questions about what effect the move will have on the fintech industry. Since credit card issuers were required to increase their prime rate by the same amount, the company is not concerned it will push away borrowers. The market cap is at $4.32

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QR Codes: The Suddenly Sizzling Payment Method

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And, while it might be an out-of-the-box choice, we think after the week in specific — and year in general — that QR codes have had, it might be fair to suggest that LL Cool J’s 1995 anthem should be the new theme song for the often under-appreciated technology. But, it never quite happened. EMVCo’s QR Thumbs Up.

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The Roil Over B2B Payments Rails

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It may have started in 2007 when the U.K. the debate has gained its own head of steam over the last five years — ever since the Fed formed its Faster Payments Task Force and convened 300 companies and 500 people to devise a framework to make payments faster in the U.S. were related in some way to international trade. s footsteps.

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Why Regulators’ War On Fees Will Kill Consumers

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Then there’s Pink, who also has a song called “Free.” “ I just wanna be free ,” she sings. I guess you can’t copyright “free.”. Janis Joplin probably sang it best, though with, “ Nothin’, don’t mean nothin’ hon’ if it ain’t free.”. WhatsApp finally sang the “free” song earlier this year too. But no more – it’s free – as a bird – now.

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Auto Loans On Fire: Sizzle Or Big Fizzle In The Making?

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The latest salvo comes from Square, where transactions were up 34 percent year over year among its retail merchant client base — you know, the ones in the field and on the ground, with the card readers. While everyone is gearing up for the Oscars, some of us may be in La La Land blithely ignoring smoke coming from the auto industry.