Online Lending Monthly News. Here are some of the top stories and trends of May 2022 for online lending investors and industry watchers.
Industry News
5/9/2022 Payments power VC fintech funding to $29.3bn in Q1 (AltFiNews)
5/10/2022 How Revolut won over one in three bank users in Ireland (AltFiNews)
5/11/2022 5 ideas traditional banks have borrowed from challenger banks (AmerBanker)
5/11/2022 How To Buy Bitcoin At 26% Off The Regular Price (Forbes)
5/12/2022 Brazilian fintech infrastructure company Dock closes on $110M in funding, now valued at over $1.5B (TechCrunch)
5/16/2022 Digital Banking Platform Dock Secures $110M, Bringing Total Valuation to $1.5B+ (CrowdfundInside)
5/17/2022 Brazilian neobank giant Nubank reports “strongest quarter” in history as bags 5.7 million customers (LendIt)
5/18/2022 6 fintech partnerships for banks to watch (AmerBanker)
5/19/2022 Mastercard pilots pay with a wave or smile (AltFiNews)
5/19/2022 German crypto investors won’t pay tax on sales of digital assets (LendIt)
5/24/2022 Why cryptocurrency might be your next big career move (AltFiNews)
5/26/2022 A Look At The Future Of Fintech (Forbes)
5/26/2022 Fintech backer Viola Credit closes $700m alternative lending fund (p2plendingnow)
5/27/2022 Open Banking: How big banks can overcome the challenges of PSD2 (AltFiNews)
5/27/2022 Longtime Bitcoiner Dan Held says this ‘crypto winter’ won’t be as harsh as others (LendIt)
Platform News
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]5/16/2022 Revolut enjoys 215% uptick in ‘silver swipers’ as OAPs become app-savv (AltFiNews)
5/17/2022 Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky to launch new VC fund that will “disrupt” the venture world (AltFiNews)
5/20/2022 Funding Circle strikes a £1bn lending deal with Waterfall (AltFiNews)
5/20/2022 Klarna hits 150 million users (AltFiNews)
5/23/2022 In Advance of its Annual USA Event, LendIt Fintech Rebrands at Fintech Nexus (CrowdfundInside)
5/24/2022 Funding Circle US partners with community bank network BancAlliance (p2pfinancenews)
5/25/2022 Revolut Business aims for larger SMEs and corporates with ‘spend management’ launch (AltFiNews)
5/31/2022 Stripe and Klarna backer Atomico hires ex-Revolut strategy honcho as partner (AltFiNEws)
5/31/2022 Fintech Monzo Integrates with Wise for Cross-Border Business Payments (CrowdfundInside)