Tala Raises $110mn for Product and Market Expansion
U.S. based microlender Tala has raised a $110mn series D round led by RPS Ventures along with PayPal, GGV Capital and Revolution Growth; the ...
PayPal Sees a Big Opportunity in India
PayPal is now beginning to expand their presence in India as they see a big opportunity with the country’s 450 million mobile phone users; ...
PayPal Working to Help Companies Focused on Financial Health
PayPal, along with MetLife and Village Capital are launching a program to support over 100 entrepreneurs who are looking to build products around financial ...
PayPal Ramping up SMB Lending
Tearsheet explores PayPal’s lending business which includes PayPal Working Capital and PayPal Business Loans; they recently crossed $10 billion in cumulative lending and are ...
Automated Small Business Lending in the UK
Quartz is reporting on the new automated small business lending operation put in place by the Royal Bank of Scotland’s Natwest unit in the UK; ...
IDKeep Launches to Help Banks Verify Digital Identities
IDKeep launched with more than 700,000 customers from 6 retail banks in Luxembourg to help verify digital identities for those banks; the company is ...
Fintech Companies Help Users to Donate to Charity
According to a study conducted by Omnicom Group’s Cone Communications 83 percent of millennials say they would be more loyal to companies who help ...
NatWest Launches Working Capital Product
High street bank NatWest has launched a digital working capital product aimed at small businesses that will see the bank take on the UK’s ...
PayPal COO Talks About Joining Project Libra
PayPal COO Bill Ready talked to Karen Webster of PYMNTS.com about the decision to join Facebook’s project Libra; PayPal exists in part to help ...
Libra has Potential to Upend Plans for Fintech Companies
There has been considerable buzz around Facebook’s Libra project and what it means for the monetary systems; fintech companies are also grappling with what ...