The impact of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) continues to take shape roughly five months after taking effect, and Facebook could be on the hook for billions of dollars in fines tied to a data breach of about 50 million user accounts. As reported, the social media giant was hacked through a vulnerability in […]
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InsurTech has a lot of room to innovate, from payout friction to risk analysis. The startup community has delivered a strong response to market gaps, and investors this week showed their interest in the B2B InsurTech market with three deals, including two rounds marking Eos Venture Partners’ first foray into the industry. Rounding out the […]
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Sierra Leone is set to create a national, blockchain-based credit bureau. On September 27, at the 73rd Session of the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA), Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio made an announcement where he declared that his country had set a new goal to create a national, blockchain-based credit bureau to “radically transform” the […]
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Crypto exchange Poloniex will remove margin and lending products for its U.S.-based customers in order to comply with regulatory requirements. U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange platform Poloniex will remove margin and lending products for its customers in the U.S and delist three digital assets, according to an announcement published October 3. Poloniex is a cryptocurrency trading platform […]
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Crypto exchange Gemini Trust Company, LLC has obtained insurance coverage for custodied digital assets from lending services firm Aon. Cryptocurrency exchange and custodian Gemini Trust Company, LLC (Gemini) has secured insurance coverage for custodied digital assets from lending services firm Aon, according to a press release published Oct. 3. Founded in 2014 in New York […]
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On Friday (Sept. 30), LendingClub officially closed the door on a two-year chapter in its corporate history that its current board and founding team would probably like to forget. Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have officially ended a two-year investigation of LendingClub, its subsidiary LC Advisors (LCA), […]
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), working in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice, announced on Thursday (Sept. 27) that it is mailing 1,179,803 refund checks totaling more than $505 million to people who were deceived by a payday lending scheme operated by AMG Services, Inc. and Scott A. Tucker. In a press release, the […]
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U.S. Bank has debuted its online lending portal for small business borrowers, the financial institution announced on Tuesday (Sept. 25). Following in the path of alternative and marketplace lenders, traditional banks are increasingly digitizing their financing offerings for small firms. The latest to do so is U.S. Bank, which revealed its online lending platform for […]
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Australian regulators on Tuesday (Sept. 25) criticized top banks in the country for what authorities called inadequate reporting of breaches of financial law. Reports in Reuters said the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced the completion of its review into Australia’s top four banks and how they managed and remediated issues of non-compliance. The ASIC […]
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To paraphrase a certain defense secretary from earlier in the millennium: There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns. When it comes to FinTech firms and lending, might it be that what we don’t know could hurt us? A report by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) found that when it comes to credit done through nascent […]
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