There’s never a convenient time to face a financial crisis. Whether your car broke down

via PYMNTS U.K. challenger Starling Bank is moving forward with plans to introduce business lending services.Starling’s

By Yulia Chernova for WSJ Venture Capital Financial technology startups, which are highly susceptible to

By Mike Lobanov for Techcrunch “A horse is here to stay, but the automobile is

New technology has fuelled the growth of alternative lenders which offer both higher yields to

By Ingrid Lunden for techcrunch.com Kreditech — the German startup that offers loans and other

For centuries, banking has remained fundamentally unchanged. For the first time in banking, the online marketplace

By Hariett Green for City AM, The Asia-Pacific alternative finance market grew 323 per cent last

TechCrunch: China Rapid Finance, which claims to be the country’s largest online consumer lending marketplace, has

VentureBeat: Startup ZestFinance today announced Basix, a new program for giving loans online to people

Bloomberg: As more Chinese jumped into the market in the hope of instant wealth, peer-to-peer websites

RE/CODE: Having dabbled in online slideshows and fertility tracking, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin has swung fully back to his

TECHCRUNCH: Online lending platform Avant has acquired ReadyForZero, a Y Combinator-backed startup that helps consumers better