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Avoiding Over-Regulation: American Fintech Council Warns That FDIC New Act Could Hinder Innovation

The Fintech Times

The new proposal will allegedly strengthen FDIC-insured depository institutions’ (IDI) recordkeeping for custodial deposit accounts with transactional features. It would also preserve beneficial owners’ and depositors’ entitlement to the protections afforded by Federal deposit insurance.

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FDIC Approves Square For Banking License

PYMNTS

The bank will extend small business loans and deposit accounts, Square said in a statement. “We It will be a Square subsidiary and will work independently.

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Singapore’s ANEXT Bank Reports Doubling of Its MSME Clients

Fintech News

ANEXT Bank continues to focus on serving the underserved MSMEs. As of the end of May, 69% of its customers are micro businesses, with 56% of loan customers and 80% of deposit customers falling into this category. These FBOs hail from 78 different nationalities, including mainland China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and South Korea.

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Marqeta Partners with OakNorth to Offer Commercial Cards in the UK, Embracing Growing Small and Medium-Sized Business Demand for Better Banking Tools

Fintech Finance

By partnering with Marqeta, OakNorth will provide its small and medium-sized business customers the services typically only available to commercial banking customers, including deposit accounts and tools to automate bill payments, helping them plan for rising costs and thrive amid economic uncertainty.

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OakNorth and Marqeta Join Forces to Tackle £22billion SME Funding Gap in UK

The Fintech Times

This includes deposit accounts and tools to automate bill payments. OakNorth specialises in supporting ambitious entrepreneurs and businesses that are underserved by traditional banks. In addition, the Bank of England estimates that there is an SME funding gap of £22billion in the UK.

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Leveraging Alternative Data to Extend Credit to More Borrowers

FICO

Instead, innovative analytic firms such as FICO are investing in identifying new predictive and compliant data sources to build models that accurately assess if underserved borrowers are in a position to successfully take on a new credit obligation. But just because someone doesn’t have a FICO® Score, it doesn’t mean they’re not credit ready.

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How NepFin, HSBC Target A Middle-Market Lending ‘Gap’

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For NepFin, HSBC “brings a global footprint so we can offer the customers that we know already — including new ones — a suite of products now, as opposed to just lower middle-market term loans,” such as deposit accounts and trade receivables or inventory financing. He added, “These deals tend to take a long time.