alternative finances

Appletree Campaigns to Raise $5B to Fund 1 Million African eCommerce SMEs
Appletree Campaigns to Raise $5B to Fund 1 Million African eCommerce SMEs
June 19, 2022  |  Investments

Appletree Digital Commerce, an eCommerce company, has debuted the Taking One Million African Traders Online Movement (TOMATO) initiative, to help out with African youths with...

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Disrupting The Security Deposit With Insurance
Disrupting The Security Deposit With Insurance
January 21, 2020  |  Alternative Finances

Affordable housing in many American cities has reached crisis levels. For those looking for officially government-certified affordable housing, the average time on the waiting list...

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Levchin: Why The Affirm-Walmart Partnership Is More Than POS Credit
Levchin: Why The Affirm-Walmart Partnership Is More Than POS Credit
March 04, 2019  |  Alternative Finances

As we learned last week, purchase financing for Walmart customers is changing. In fact, the change has already begun and will continue to roll out over...

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Affirm’s Levchin On Changing The Consumer Credit Conversation
Affirm’s Levchin On Changing The Consumer Credit Conversation
December 21, 2018  |  Alternative Finances

The conversation about credit in the U.S. has become one of extremes. There is a growing chorus of voices that eschew credit as a “dangerous...

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Finlok And Building Better Financial Services For Young Indian Consumers
Finlok And Building Better Financial Services For Young Indian Consumers
October 30, 2018  |  Alternative Finances

In the course of conversations with many innovators and entrepreneurs about how they ended up founding the firms they founded, we tend to hear something...

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CashCall, Courts And California’s Increasingly Confusing Lending Market
CashCall, Courts And California’s Increasingly Confusing Lending Market
August 15, 2018  |  Alternative Finances

Headquartered in Orange County, California and founded in 2003, CashCall is a big firm that consumers likely know best from its early commercials featuring the...

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Barclays Business Banking CEO On Solving SMB’s Big Receivables’ Problem
Barclays Business Banking CEO On Solving SMB’s Big Receivables’ Problem
August 06, 2018  |  Alternative Finances

Ironically, as the global economy has gotten stronger, payment cycles between buyers and suppliers have gotten longer. What was once an average of about 45 days from...

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Does Tribal Lending Have A Future?
Does Tribal Lending Have A Future?
January 16, 2018  |  Alternative Finances

Scott Tucker’s pre-sentencing “apology” will not likely be remembered as one of history’s greatest all-time allocutions of contrition. The Kansas businessman – facing a 2017...

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What 2018 Will Mean For Marketplace Lenders
What 2018 Will Mean For Marketplace Lenders
January 02, 2018  |  Alternative Finances

2017 was a tough year for some of the biggest names in alternative financial services in the U.S. – Prosper, OnDeck and LendingClub, in particular....

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