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The Banking Industry’s Uber Moment: Lending Start-ups

February 22, 2016 By Bennett Voyles

Bad loans were at the core of the 2008 financial crisis, so it makes sense that lending may be the banking function that changes the most over the next 10 years, particularly as peer-to-peer lending platforms claim that they can make smarter loans faster and more cheaply than conventional banks. So will banks get ‘ubered’ by these peer-to-peer lending start-ups? A match that pits old and anxious institutions with high capital withholding requirements against young, tech-savvy, and lightly regulated start-ups might sound like a foregone conclusion, but some analysts say the outcome is not as certain as it appears. So what does the future hold?

Filed Under: All Articles, Banking Tagged With: Banking Industry in 2025 Series, P2P

Internet Finance Regulation: Not Everything is Black and White

July 20, 2015 By Major Tian

The government has finally issued guidelines to regulate China’s internet finance industry, but the devil may lie in the yet-to-come details.

Filed Under: All Articles, Digital Economy, Finance, Internet Finance, Know China, Policy and Law Tagged With: Chinese Economy, Government Regulation, P2P, Slider

Starting a Business in China Needs a Strong Adversity Quotient

June 16, 2015 By Major Tian

In this series on The Chinapreneurs, we look at entrepreneurs’ experiences in starting a business in China. In the first one, Kevin Zhao, CEO of Wangli Bank, elaborates on starting up in China’s fast-changing internet finance sector.

Filed Under: All Articles, Banking, Best Practice, Digital Economy, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Internet Finance, Social Good, The Chinapreneurs Tagged With: Entrepreneurship, P2P, Philanthropy, Slider, Start-ups, The Chinapreneurs

China Roundup: Alibaba’s Youku Tudou Stake and China, the World’s Largest Economy?

May 4, 2014 By Neelima Mahajan

The week that was: China may trump the US to become the world’s largest economy soon; the Chinese P2P lending sector to get new regulations; Xiaomi shells out a cool $3.6 million for a two-word domain name. China to be the World’s Largest Economy Soon For the last decade pundits have been prophesizing that China is […]

Filed Under: All Articles, China Round-up, Chinese Economy, Connections, Digital Economy, Emerging Economies, Finance, Internet Finance, Know China, Policy and Law, Stock Exchange Tagged With: 360buy, Alibaba, Baidu, China Regulation, Chinese Economy, Economic Reform, Internet, Jingdong, P2P, Shadow Banking, Slider, Tudou, Xiaomi, Yihaodian, Youku

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