Tagged: banks

November 9, 2023 @ 11:46 am By JD Alois  |  

There have been reports on both sides of the Atlantic that some banks are pumping the brakes on providing credit to smaller businesses. While there are multiple reasons why this may be the case, a gap in lending has helped to boost alternative lending platforms… Read More

September 30, 2023 @ 4:07 am By Michael Wong  |  

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has revealed in its recent publication on 29 September that there has been a slight increment in total deposits with authorized institutions by 0.6% in August 2023. The deposits consisted of Hong Kong dollar deposits, which saw an increase… Read More

August 21, 2023 @ 8:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

One of the ongoing themes of the Fintech sector is the fact that agile early-stage firms can do better with less. This is especially the case with old financial services firms, like lumbering banks. While Fintechs tend to combine industry knowledge with a vision of… Read More

June 7, 2023 @ 11:19 am By JD Alois  |  

S&P Global Market Intelligence has distributed a brief on traditional banks, providing a list of banks by assets as well as deposits. According to the report, a majority of the largest US banks posted increases in assets in the first quarter as failures and exited… Read More

May 31, 2023 @ 3:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chargebacks911, which claims to be the first company dedicated to providing chargeback remediation services to the world’s largest banks and businesses, released its 2023 Chargeback Field Report, “giving retailers and financial institutions an understanding into the current state of friendly fraud, first-party misuse and chargeback… Read More

May 22, 2023 @ 10:41 am By Martin Rauchenwald and Philippe De Backer  |  

The fall of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the emergency merger of Credit Suisse with UBS, and most recently, the seizure and sale of First Republic Bank quickly dissipated much of the trust that had been slowly returning to the banking sector. The question remains: if… Read More

April 22, 2023 @ 3:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Feedzai, which claims to be the world’s first RiskOps platform for financial risk management, has released its latest report – The Human Impact of Fraud and Financial Crime on Customer Trust in Banks. The report, “based on research of 4,000 consumers in the UK and… Read More

March 14, 2023 @ 11:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the entire US banking sector following the events in the past week. Moody’s said it has changed its outlook from stable to negative. This is a reflection of the events impacting Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank (SBNY), and Silvergate… Read More

January 18, 2023 @ 4:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Earnix, the provider of mission-critical cloud-based intelligent real-time, dynamic pricing and rating solutions for insurers and banks, announced it is appointing insurance and fintech industry veteran, Robin Gilthorpe, as its new Chief Executive Officer “effective February 1, 2023.” Mr. Gilthorpe will be “taking over the… Read More

October 12, 2021 @ 12:47 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Loan approval rates at many banks inched upward in September, data from Biz2Credit’s monthly Small Business Lending Index shows. Biz2Credit analyzed loan requests from companies that have been in business for more than two years and who have credit scores greater than 680. The results… Read More

August 12, 2021 @ 11:33 pm By Priyanka Pani  |  

Fast-growing financial app Curve has appointed Renata Sumskaite as CEO and Head of Curve Lithuania to spearhead innovation and product development at the organization. Prior to Curve, Renata was the Head of Fintech hub’ Rise Vilnius’ by Barclays and was also Head of the Barclaycard… Read More

April 12, 2021 @ 11:38 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mastercard announced on Monday it has joined forces with Swedish fintech Doconomy to develop the Mastercard Carbon Calculator, a feature specifically for banks to adapt and customize for eco-conscious consumers to monitor their spending habits. “The Carbon Calculator enables consumers to receive a snapshot of… Read More

January 4, 2021 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Oxygen, an early-stage digital bank, has closed on a $17 million Series A round led by Runa Capital. The funding round included participation from S7V, 1984.vc, EFG Hermes, Rucker Park, and Inventures. Several high profile individual investors participated in the offering including Frank Strauss, Global… Read More

November 10, 2020 @ 1:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Small business funding platform Biz2Credit announced on Tuesday its latest lending index revealed that small business loan approval percentages at big banks ($10 billion+ in assets) dropped slightly from 13.5% in September to 13.3% in October. Biz2Credit reported that during the month of October small… Read More

October 6, 2020 @ 10:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Small business funding platform Biz2Credit announced on Tuesday its latest Small Business Lending Index has been released and revealed small business loan approval percentages at big banks ($10 billion+ in assets) dropped slightly from 13.6% in August to 13.5% in September, indicative of the struggles… Read More

September 8, 2020 @ 1:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Small business funding platform Biz2Credit announced on Tuesday its latest Small Business Lending Index has been released and revealed small business loan approval percentages at big banks ($10 billion+ in assets) and small banks dropped slightly in August 2020, an indication that the upward trend… Read More

August 11, 2020 @ 10:44 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Small business funding platform Biz2Credit announced on Tuesday its latest Small Business Lending Index has been released and revealed that the approval percentage for small business loan applications at big banks, which are more than $10 billion in assets increased three-tenths of a percent from… Read More

March 30, 2020 @ 4:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Small business funding platform Biz2Credit announced on Monday the launch of Biz2X Accelerate SBA, a platform that enables banks and other financial institutions to efficiently respond to the influx of loan requests from small businesses seeking to take advantage of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)… Read More

October 7, 2019 @ 6:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s regulators have consistently preferred supporting blockchain-related initiatives over decentralized crypto tokens. Recent events confirm that the nation’s authorities are more inclined to support blockchain technology itself rather than investments in speculative cryptocurrencies.  According to local reports, approximately 97% of local crypto-asset exchanges might… Read More

April 29, 2019 @ 9:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Online lending platform Funding Circle announced on Monday it partnered with Oxford Economics to launch a new report, called “Big Business of Small Business,” which revealed banks have been giving small businesses the “cold shoulder” one decade after the financial crisis, causing the businesses to fail… Read More