Apr 21, 2020 | Congressional Legislation, FinTech, News
Fintechs Approved to Make Small Business Loans Under Paycheck Protection Program After aggressive lobbying, three fintech companies ⎯ PayPal, Square Capital, and Intuit QuickBooks Capital ⎯ recently announced that they were authorized by the federal government to make...
Mar 6, 2020 | Banks & Credit Unions, FinTech, News
Survey Finds that More Than Half of Consumers Would Prefer Fintechs over Traditional Banks Ondot Systems, a California-based fintech company, recently released findings from a Harris Poll survey indicating that consumers are increasingly willing to try fintech...
Feb 11, 2020 | FinTech, News
Kabbage to Begin Offering Short-Term Loans for Small Businesses Kabbage, the online lending company that provides lines of credit to small businesses, recently announced that it will start offering short-term loans with a repayment period of only three days....
Feb 4, 2020 | Financial Literacy, FinTech, News
FICO Announces Changes That Could Lower Consumers’ Credit Scores Fair Isaac Corp., which created the FICO credit score used by many lenders in credit decisions, recently announced a series of changes to its scoring model which the Wall Street Journal reports could...
Jan 22, 2020 | FinTech, News
New Venture Capital Fund to Target Fintechs Working with Banks Earlier today, Gene Ludwig, who served as Comptroller of the Currency under President Clinton from 2993 to 1998, and Chip Mahan, CEO of Live Oak Bancshares, announced a $545 million investment fund which...
Jan 3, 2020 | Banks & Credit Unions, FinTech, News
TransUnion researchers analyzed macroeconomic conditions and their impact on credit cards, personal and auto loans, and mortgages to predict that 2020 will be a good year for consumer credit, with low delinquencies and strong growth for most sectors. This prediction...
