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Kayla Ayres: A big wall street
bank may be entering the small

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business lending market. Goldman
Sachs is said to be negotiating

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with Amazon to provide capital
to merchants on the Amazon

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Marketplace. Some experts say
this move was to be expected as

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Goldman Sachs already
successfully rolled out Marcus,

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which is an online savings
account brand and consumer

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lending division. Meanwhile,
Amazon quietly entered the small

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business loan market in 2011. By
our estimates here at deBanked,

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Amazon is one of the five
largest online lenders in the

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country. You can help Ocrolus
provide loans to underserved

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entrepreneurs around the world.
Ocrolus is asking its customers

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to publish their fintech story
on its website. In exchange for

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each story. Ocrolus will give
$5,000 for Kiva-backed loans.

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Ocrolus' chief operating officer
told deBanked, the best part of

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Kiva is the type of people who
are being helped and the impact

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that this can have. There's a
new face on the board of the

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Canadian Lenders Association.
BFS capital CEO, Mark Ruddock

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has joined the board of
directors. The CLA is the

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premier lending and fintech
association in Canada. Ruddock

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says "the fast growth Canadian
lending marketplace and the

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vibrancy of Toronto as a center
for tech and AI talent makes it

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an exciting place from which to
reimagine and build the future

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of small business financial
services." I'm Kayla Ayres and

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this is deBanked News.