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Here Are 2024’s Top VC Funding Rounds So Far

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It will also continue to invest in its comprehensive tech stack to power the end-to-end customer journeys across banking, insurance, and embedded commerce. Founded in 2008, Perfios is a B2B SaaS company serving the banking, financial services and insurance industry in 18 countries, empowering 1,000+ financial institutions.

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A List of Digital Banks in Asia

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Are digital first banks in Asia poised to lead a disruptive charge against well-entrenched, established commercial banks? In the traditional banking sphere globally, but especially true in Asia, there is a considerable proportion of unbanked and underbanked populations who lack complete or any access to banking services.

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Mortgage Tech 101: What It Is & Why It’s Taking Off Now

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By the end of 2017, nearly $1.8T worth of mortgages will have been originated in the United States this year, according to government-backed mortgage lender Freddie Mac. Originating, processing, and underwriting a home loan with a large bank lender still requires faxes and snail mail and take almost as long as it did 20 years.

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The Best Banks in Asia 2024, Ranked by Forbes

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Confronted by shifting factors such as tech advancements, generative AI, high interest rates, increased institutional oversight, and evolving customer expectations — the best banks must adapt their business and operating models in 2024, including in Asia. CHINA #1 China Merchants Bank China Merchants Bank Co.,

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Lending Club’s Terrible Twos

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Lending Club’s model does not need bank branches on each street corner, and it can turn around in minutes and hours, not days. I crossed paths with Laplanche back in 2007 and wanted to back him right away,” Petrushka said. banks at the time. Loan originations were down, and defaults were higher than expected.

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Rising Interest Rates And The Changing Mortgage Market

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They’re also taking their toll on the non-bank mortgage lenders that proliferated in the good old days of zero or near-zero interest rates, compliments of the Federal Reserve. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reports that new home mortgage originations are at their lowest levels in years. The Supply Side of the Story.

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US Consumer Debt — Ten Years Later

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In 2007 — just before the economic crack-up — sub-prime credit lending was worth $115 billion. Was it banks chasing profits they shouldn’t have by allowing consumers to over-leverage themselves — or did consumers let their eyes get bigger than their bank accounts and spend way beyond their means when they knew better?