12/6/2018 4:17:29 PM Online Lender CommonBond Acquires Gen Z Financial Advice Platform NextGenVest By FinTech Collective Digital student loan platform CommonBond has acquired Generation Z financial advice company NextGenVest for an undisclosed amount. After...
4/25/2018 6:09:19 PM CampusLogic Raises $55 Million to Further Its Comprehensive Student Financial Services Platform By Sean Lippel Arizona based student financial services platform has raised $55m in growth equity funding led by JML Equity. CampusLogic works with...
8/24/2017 4:49:52 PM Prodigy Finance raises $240m By FinTech Collective UK based international student lender Prodigy finance has raised $240m in new funding, with $40m coming from a Series C round led by...
7/7/2017 1:48:20 AM Three-quarters of UK graduates ‘will never repay student loans’ By Gareth Jones Three-quarters of UK university leavers will never pay off their student loans, even if they are still contributing in their 50s,...
1/15/2016 2:24:48 AM Could 'Bowie Bonds' Provide The Groundwork To Ease The Student Loan Crisis? By Gareth Jones Did David Bowie lay the intellectual first steps in coming up with a novel solution to today’s student debt crisis through securitizing...
2/4/2015 11:12:37 PM Student loan startup SoFi becomes newest unicorn By FinTech Collective It's official, another fintech company joins the unicorn club. With its most recent $200m raise, SoFi is valued around $1.3b. SoFi...
4/6/2014 12:09:09 PM SoFi Closes On $80 Million To Expand Its Lending Business By Gareth Jones The peer-to-peer lender is getting into mortgages and personal loans.. The new capital comes from the hedge fund Discovery Capital...