Marketplace lending platforms — Lending Club, OnDeck, Prosper and the like — have inarguably and fundamentally altered the geography of the lending landscape. In the last decade, they’ve gone from being a niche product to representing about a third of unsecured consumer loan volume in...
The financial crisis that rolled through the economic landscape a decade ago was — among many things — a financial reset button. Interest rates plummeted as the Fed held the federal funds rate at zero in the hopes of stimulating lending in an environment where credit went from dangerously...
Debt collectors are historically an unpopular group of people. Even the Bible has shade to throw their way. (Debt collectors, Biblically speaking, share a category with adulterers, swindlers and the unjust.) Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
Despite the nearly continuous drumbeat of doom and gloom from the world of physical retail, there is, according to Affirm CRO Rob Pfeifer, something of a curious side phenomenon unfolding at the same time: Online brands – famous and famously successful online brands – are branching out...
Millennials, we have long been assured, were never, ever going to buy houses. Some hypothesized that the lingering memory of the Great Recession’s origins in profligate mortgage underwriting would scare them away forever. Others pushed a theory that the supersized costs of college combined with the stagnant...
There are aggregators for just about everything these days, and loans of all types. Now we can add car leasing to the list. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
By many measures, the economy looks strong. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree to...
Social Finance — the online lender better known as SoFi — will be laying off dozens of workers in its mortgage division, despite the fact that the home loans department was one that the firm was holding up as a potential generator for future growth....
When Bank of America announced last week that it was terminating its free checking option for low-balance customers, a literal Tweet storm broke out. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
