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UK’s MarketFinance scores $383M to fuel its online loans platform for SMBs

Small and medium businesses regularly face cashflow problems. But if that’s an already inconvenient predicament, it has been exacerbated to the breaking point for too many during the COVID-19 pa

Update: Cash-strapped Wonga goes into administration in the UK

Update: That’s it for Wonga’s UK business. The beleaguered payday loans company has just confirmed it’s gone into administration. Although it says its overseas businesses are contin

Aiming To Disrupt Payday Lending, a16z-Backed LendUp Now Offers Instant Online And Mobile Loans

Y Combinator-incubated <a target="_blank" href="https://www.lendup.com/">LendUp</a> launched in October <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/10/lendup-raises-cash-from-kleiner-perkins-andreessen-ho