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Can Better, Digital Credit Help SMBs Thrive?

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Those smaller B2B operators “are not in the best position to be accepting and taking credit risks,” Sebastian Rymarz, chief business officer for Fundbox , told Karen Webster in a recent interview with PYMNTS. focused B2B sales. There’s higher cost for longer terms but it helps boost sales,” he said. In the U.S.,

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S., LendingClub’s Q4 2017 results, under new management, showed four straight years of losses, sales that missed forecasted targets and continued losses in 2018, seemed to prove investors had every reason to be skeptical. billion by 2021. billion growing to $120.7 trillion in 2021.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

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Transcript: Ken Kencel

Barry Ritholtz

By the way, you’re not really in this private credit business, and that’s really going to be a growth area. And that’s really what was the genesis for, you know, our sale to Carlyle. You should have a platform there. COMMERCIAL BREAK) RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about the history of your business.