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For SMB Underwriting, Exploring A More Reliable Kind Of Alternative Data

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But SMB loan underwriting at traditional FIs has, for the most part, remained unchanged, even as alternative lenders began exploring the role of alternative data in the risk mitigation process. Michael Carter, CEO and president of BizEquity , has another vision in mind: lenders using the value of a small business to underwrite SMB loans.

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This Week in Fintech: TFT Bi-Weekly News Roundup 08/08

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Ellis previously served as CFO at Flywire , a global payment solutions provider, as well as CFO and advisor to BillGO , a bill pay platform and network. Lea most recently served as chief underwriting officer at Vantage Risk. Founded in France, Yooz entered the market in 2014. Malm was previously VP of operations at Embroke.

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Cabot Square Capital Sells 321 Crédito

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With a specialty in car loans, 321 Crédit has been a Cabot Square Capital company since 2014. small business lender, to White Oak Global Advisors, noted Financial Times. Cabot Square Capital, a U.K. According to a report in Financial Times , the deal was worth more than €140m. It recently sold LDF , a U.K. trillion U.S.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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Underwriting an initial public offering (IPO) is a highly profitable business for an investment bank. For this work, the underwriting bank can make tens of millions from an IPO — whether or not the stock performs well. The lingering effects from the Covid-19 pandemic have pushed expected underwriting IPO revenue to just 7.5%

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Fintech Fundings: 17 Companies Raised $580 Million Week Ending July 31

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To put that in perspective, during all of 2014 our alums raised just over $1 billion (excludes IPOs (Yodlee, OnDeck, and Lending Club). And even more startling number, in July 2014 we had one alum funded to the tune of $27 million. Automated stock trading advisor. Tags: Lending, credit, underwriting, consumer loans.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have officially ended a two-year investigation of LendingClub, its subsidiary LC Advisors (LCA), its founder and former CEO Renaud Laplanche and its former CFO Carrie Dolan. On Friday (Sept. The SEC Finding. million Series C round in April of 2010.

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Fintech Fundings: 15 Companies Raise $150 Million Week Ending August 31

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Three Finovate alums received large checks this week: FutureAdvisor , one of the early robo-advisors which had raised $24 million, was acquired by Blackrock for an undisclosed sum. billion, almost a 6x increase over $410 million raised in August 2014. Tags: Investing, wealth management, advisors. million), raised big rounds.

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