The New Breed of Small Business Lenders: Amazon, Paypal and Square
If asked where to get a small business loan most people would state their local banks or even some of the bigger traditional banks. Those aware of the online lending space may mention the likes of...
View ArticlePayPal Crosses $10 Billion In Small Business Loans
PayPal is a company whose name is much more synonymous with payments than lending. However, that might be changing as the company announced that they had crossed $10 billion in lending. The...
View ArticleThe Ten Biggest News Stories of the Decade in Marketplace Lending
I started writing about marketplace lending back in 2010, so I have spent almost the entire decade immersed in this space. While we have expanded our coverage on Lend Academy today beyond marketplace...
View ArticleAll of the Fintechs Involved in PPP Loans
It has been an interesting to say the least as we have watched everything play out with the Paycheck Protection Program loan process. Fintechs were eager to help small businesses with the $349 billion...
View ArticleBernardo Martinez Steps Down as Managing Director Funding Circle US
We have recently learned that Bernardo Martinez is stepping down from his role as US Managing Director of Funding Circle. Bernardo started leading Funding Circle US in March 2018 when industry pioneer...
View ArticleThe New Breed of Small Business Lenders: Amazon, Paypal and Square
If asked where to get a small business loan most people would state their local banks or even some of the bigger traditional banks. Those aware of the online lending space may mention the likes of...
View ArticleDigital Currencies Finally on the Mainstream Path
One of the biggest questions the crypto and blockchain communities have yet to answer is when would these technologies reach mainstream usage. That is beginning to be answered with the recent news of...
View ArticleFintechs Thrive and Die During the Pandemic
The current pandemic has shaken our world in ways most of us could not even imagine and fintech companies have felt that pain as much as any market; digital banks and payments companies have seen a...
View ArticlePayPal Partners with InComm on CVS Touch-Free Payments
PayPal and InComm are bringing touch-free payments to CVS stores across the U.S.; PayPal and InComm announced a QR code payment system that will enable touchless checkouts by PayPal and Venmo users...
View ArticlePayPal Has Best Quarter Since IPO as Digital Payments Take Hold
PayPal broke all sorts of records in the second quarter of 2020 as the acceleration of digital payments continued to take hold during the crisis; PayPal set records for users, revenue and payment...
View ArticleMore News for August 4, 2020
Earnings Highlights; Forbearance-to-Cure Data; Enova to Acquire OnDeck BNY Mellon, Citi, Visa, Others Invest $35 Million in Volante Technologies to Accelerate Fintech Firm’s Cloud Expansion Globally...
View ArticleDigital Currencies Finally on the Mainstream Path
One of the biggest questions the crypto and blockchain communities have yet to answer is when would these technologies reach mainstream usage. That is beginning to be answered with the recent news of...
View ArticleQ3 Fintech Earnings Week: a Wild Ride
This earnings season started strong but turned uneven this week. Even firms that showed outsized growth saw their stock prices level: a year of absurd price increases can only go so far before good...
View ArticleFacebook pummeling pulls down fintech earnings
The beginning of February ’22 will be remembered for one thing: Facebook — and the tech market it has come to represent — had a terrible quarter. The supergiant with a new name dropped more than 24%...
View ArticlePitchIt Podcast #40: John Paasonen of Maxwell
On episode 40 I talk with John Paasonen of Maxwell. Maxwell helps lenders serve their communities by channeling mortgage and technology expertise to help small and midsize lending teams thrive....
View ArticleTop 10 Fintech News Stories for the Week Ending June 11, 2022
Another busy news week in fintech with Apple causing quite a stir on the BNPL front. We also had big news from PayPal, the U.S. Senate, Custodia Bank, Checkout.com and more. Here are what I consider...
View ArticleTop 10 Fintech News Stories for the Week Ending June 18, 2022
The news this week was dominated by the crypto crash. There was bad news on many fronts with layoffs, problems at Celsius, and a large drop in the value of most crypto tokens. We had plenty of BNPL...
View ArticleSquare Is On a Roll Despite the Crisis
Ron Shevlin digs into Square and why the company and its stock price continues to do very well; he looks at the three core components of Square: payments, Cash App and Square Capital; Shevlin explains...
View ArticleSquare and Venmo Continue to do Well During the Pandemic
Square’s Cash App and PayPal’s Venmo has seen a surge in usage during the pandemic as people are finding new use cases for them; people are tipping service workers, donating to causes and patronizing...
View ArticleMore News for June 23rd, 2020
Why Relationships Still Matter: How Community Banks Saved The Country During Covid-19 Republic’s First Three Real Estate Offerings Have Already Topped Their Funding Hurdles Alex Mashinsky’s Celsius...
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