Tech innovations key to financial inclusion

MANILA, Philippines — Introducing technological innovations to the country’s banking system will play a key role in expanding financial inclusion in the Philippines, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, during …Powered by...

Why The Cleveland Fed Pulled Their Online Lending Study

Karen Webster spoke with Lending Club’s head of government relations, Richard Neiman, to get a better sense of the source of discrepancy, since even Googling the definition of marketplace loan, Webster commented, might have saved the Cleveland Fed …Powered by...

Toronto Launches New Hub for Financial Innovation

and external financial, economic and technology organizations. The Rotman FinHub is backed by a $1 million donation from TD Bank and a $1.3 million contribution from the Rotman Catalyst Fund, a venture fund to provide seed capital for bold innovations …Powered...

Immigrant lending clubs provide capital, at a cost

That makes lending clubs older than the U.S. banking system itself. Ryan Kailath is a general assignment reporter for Marketplace based in the New York bureau. Before joining Marketplace, Ryan was an environment reporter at WWNO in New Orleans, where he …Powered...