After the CFPB spent 13 years trying to figure out how to implement a wide-reaching poorly-worded law, the ensuing 888-page handbook full of rules for small business lenders to follow so the government can measure disparities in commercial loan underwriting processes, may have all been for naught. Congress wants the rules gone. The rules in […]

An e-mail purporting to come from Bluevine’s Partner Notifications account was sent out to about 300 of their resellers yesterday with a plainly stated notice that their Referral Marketing Agreements had been terminated. A representative from Bluevine confirmed that these notices were legitimate, saying that “we refined our strategy and are moving away from the […]

Have you heard? Prominent industry insiders are expecting a huge turnout for deBanked CONNECT MIAMI taking place on January 11th in Miami Beach. The signature event, which this year features the FIRST EVER Broker Battleâ„¢, is drawing interest from the funder and broker community like never before. Other notable things to catch include the all-in-one […]

As part of the FCC’s initiative to “combat illegal text messages” the regulator intends to require that texters and callers obtain a consumer’s prior express written consent from a single seller at a time. Specifically, the FCC is acknowledging that lead generation sites or comparison shopping sites attempt to abide by the current rules by […]

As the small business financing space contemplates competition from merchant-integrated platforms like Square, Shopify, and Intuit, one behemoth is taking over the franchises themselves. The company is Roark Capital, an Atlanta-based PE firm with $37B in assets under management, and they taste delicious. Roark Capital already owns Arby’s, Auntie Anne’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Carvel, […]