Online Lending Monthly News. Here are some of the top stories and trends of September 2021 for online lending investors and industry watchers.
Industry News
9/2/2021 Citizens Bank of Edmond to launch national digital bank with partner Moven (Bankingdive)
9/2/2021 Bank Regulators Set Risk Guidance for Fintech Partnerships (FinancialBrand)
9/3/2021 A Small Bank’s Journey Into Crypto (AmerBanker)
9/7/2021 Credit unions band together on rewards app. Will it click with consumers? (AmerBanker)
9/8/2021 August was a big month for buy now pay later: What’s next? (LendIt)
9/8/2021 OceanFirst cutting branch network by 30% to fuel digital growth (AmerBanker)
9/10/2021 Monzo set to reveal buy-now-pay-later feature next week (AltFiNews)
9/10/2021 Grayscale Paves The Way For Ethereum Classic, Bitcoin Cash And Litecoin ETFs (Forbes)
9/13/2021 The P2P lending platforms that have held onto their founders (p2pfinancenews)
9/13/2021 Arvest Bank tries to put most popular features of branches in an app (AmerBanker)
9/14/2021 What will fintech look like in 2030? (LendIt)
9/15/2021 Square announces Pay With Cash App (LendIt)
9/15/2021 Fintech veterans launch new trading app Lightyear with $8.5m from Monzo backer & Wise founder (AltFiNews)
9/20/2021 How banks are using tech to help remote, in-office workers collaborate (AmerBanker)
9/21/2021 Fintex Capital hopes to enable the buy now, pay later boom with DIY SME facility (AltFiNews)
9/21/2021 Amazon, Square streamline payments as their push into banking ramps up (AmerBanker)
9/23/2021 Amazon announces partnership with Lendistry for SMB lending (LendIt)
9/24/2021 It turns out fintech is worth as much as SaaS (TechCrunch)
9/24/2021 Barclays appoints Amazon finance head as new CEO of Barclays Partner Finance (AltFiNews)
9/27/2021 European P2P Lending Platform Bondora Reports “Massive Wave” of Increased Collections, Recoveries in Aug 2021(CrowdfundInsider)
9/28/2021 Institutional investors consider first crypto investments (p2pfinancenews)
9/28/2021 No card required: Mastercard takes buy now/pay later to bank apps (AmerBanker)
9/29/2021 Coinbase dives deeper into banking by letting users deposit paychecks into their accounts (CNBC)
9/29/2021 Upgrade Identified as Fastest Growing Card in US, Founder Renaud Laplanche Comments on Evolving Fintech Ecosystem (CrowdfundInsider)
9/30/2021 Fintech Firm Verifone Partners with BitPay to Enable Consumer Crypto Payments via Digital Commerce Platforms (CrowdfundInsider)
9/30/2021 Can regulators keep pace with fintech innovation? (AmerBanker)
Platform News
9/3/2021 Funding Circle launches buy-now-pay-later option for SMEs (AltFiNews)
9/7/2021 Revolut set to take on Klarna with its own BNPL offering (AltFiNews)
9/9/2021 Funding Circle names new CEO as it swings to profit (Reuters)
9/9/2021 LendingClub Simplifies Institutional Access to Consumer Loans via its Electronic Trading Platform (CrowdfundInside)
9/20/2021 Revolut will pay WeWork in crypto, largely Bitcoin, for its US hub in Dallas (AltFiNews)
9/22/2021 Revolut, the $33 billion fintech player, is rolling out commission-free stock trading in the U.S. (CNBC)
9/27/2021 ThinCats to lend up to £300m under ENABLE Guarantee program (p2pfinancenews)