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 •  By The Canopy Team

How Vertical SaaS Providers Win the Lending Game

When it comes to lending to specialized audiences, vertical SaaS platforms are at a major advantage. Here's how fintechs like Toast, ServiceTitan, & Outgo are using this momentum to unlock new market segments and develop deeper customer relationships.

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 •  By The Canopy Team

What FedNow Really Means for SMBs

FedNow is a win for real-time payments, but does it really make a difference for SMBs? Here, we dive into why FedNow leaves much to be desired for businesses with hundreds (or thousands) of bills to finance. Plus, actions you can take to improve now.

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 •  By The Canopy Team

Why 2024 is the Time to Shine for Credit Unions

The topic may not make you jump off your couch like winning the mega millions, but we’re about to tell you why right now is a really good time to be a credit union.

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 •  By The Canopy Team

State of the Credit Market

In an environment of continued economic uncertainty, how can lenders be proactive in servicing their customers and being empathetic toward the challenges yet to come? Leaders from Wells Fargo, JPMorgan, and Citi weigh in on what we should expect.

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 •  By Julie VerHage Greenberg

Demystifying Embedded Lending

What is embedded lending, and what are the key benefits for consumers and companies alike?

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 •  By Jess Pelini

Canopy Wins 2023 Comparably Awards

The Canopy team is excited to announce that we've won two Comparably Awards for our company culture in 2023: Best Career Growth and Best Leadership Teams. This is the second year the Canopy team has cast their vote for "Best Career Growth".

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Product
 •  By Angela Snyder

Why Canopy’s Product Team Works in PODs

At Canopy, we recently restructured our fast-growing engineering, product, and design teams into three cross-functional PODs. Within the new structure, each group is focused on growth, policy, or platform to better focus our skills and serve our clients.

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 •  By The Canopy Team

9 Loan Servicing Platform Must-Haves for Fintechs

As a fintech, what should you look for in a loan servicing provider for your lending products? Here, we break down the key features to watch for, including payments, compliance, and long-term planning.

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 •  By The Canopy Team

Navigating the Complexities of B2B Lending

B2B lending provides a sea of opportunities, but it's not without its complexities. From SMBs seeking short-term financing, to large orgs in need of long-term capital, here's how commercial lenders can create outstanding, unique opportunities.

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A cropped image of a U.S. soldier in uniform illustrates a story about the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.
Industry Insights
 •  By Travis Taborek

The 10-Step SCRA Compliance Checklist for New Lenders

The Service Members Civil Relief Act can be intimating for new lenders. This checklist was created to help them understand what they need to do to stay compliant and avoid hefty penalties.

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 •  By The Canopy Team

How Lenders Can Leverage Servicing Tech in a Volatile Market

Matt Bivons, CEO at Canopy and Dhruv Vakharia, CFO at Vervent discuss the future of AI in finance, the current lending environment, and regulation tightening.

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 •  By Julie VerHage

Fintech: The Unlikely Hero for Regional Banks & SMBs

There's an ongoing credit crunch on mid-market companies. With low liquidity and high interest rates, the time is now for fintechs to facilitate non-traditional underwriting of SMBs.

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 •  By Julie VerHage

Navigating the Blue Ocean of Commercial Lending

It's a new era in lending, with a blue ocean of opportunity available to those offering commercial and SMB loans. Here's how you can stay ahead of the curve.

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Introducing LoanLab by Canopy
 •  By The Canopy Team

Meet LoanLab: Innovate, Simulate, Operate

LoanLab allows you to simulate the entire lifecycle of a loan, test different policies and actions, and observe the effects over time (and in real-time).

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At Fintech Meetup 2023, Matt Bivons, CEO of Canopy, shared the stage with Ohad Samet of TrueML and Katrina Holt of Affirm to discuss why investments in digital loan servicing and collections can yield significant benefits.
Industry Insights
 •  By Jess Pelini

The Future of Digital Lending

Investments in digital lending have grown lopsided. Since 2020, we’ve seen significant upgrades in account opening and origination technology, while servicing and collections have remained largely untouched.

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Canopy Wins 2023 FinTech Breakthrough Award for Best Lending Infrastructure
Product
 •  By Angela Snyder

Canopy Wins Best Lending Infrastructure Platform Award

Canopy has won Best Lending Infrastructure Platform Award by FinTech Breakthrough. Our highly configurable, scalable, API-first platform allows lenders to innovate and personalize lending products to maximize their growth with the fastest time to market.

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Industry Insights
 •  By Jess Pelini

Why Embedded Lending for Merchants is on the Rise

As the lending ecosystem expands, merchants and challenger banks have a unique opportunity to seize the moment. Here are a few embedded lending services to keep an eye on in 2023.

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By combining Canopy’s innovative and configurable loan management and servicing platform with Lendflow’s credit decisioning engine and embedded credit solutions, the two companies are enabling the launch of new and innovative credit products at scale for enterprise Fintechs and traditional Lenders.
Canopy HQ
 •  By Dan Desmond

Canopy Servicing Announces Partnership with Lendflow

By combining Canopy’s innovative and configurable loan management and servicing platform with Lendflow’s credit decisioning engine and embedded credit solutions, the two companies are enabling the launch of new and innovative credit products for Lenders.

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Will Hanson, Canopy CTO and Co-Founder, April 2022
 •  By Will Hanson

How Credit Cards Work — Series Introduction

To make a better credit card, it's important to know how credit cards work. In this blog series, Canopy CTO Will Hanson dives deep into credit card policies.

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Product
 •  By Will Hanson

How Credit Cards Work — Line-Item-Level Interest Policies

Traditionally, credit cards have been governed by amount-level policies. Canopy CTO Will Hanson explains why line-item-level-policies are better for lenders and borrowers.

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Canopy HQ
 •  By Elise Cox

Canopy Joins with @Visa Ready for BNPL

Canopy is partnering with Visa to enable clients to offer BNPL installment payments on cards around the world.

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An image of Canopy CEO Matt Bivons created by the Tech Talks Daily Podcast
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Industry Insights
 •  By Elise Cox

Tech Talks Daily: Why Fintech Should Embrace Transparency

Canopy Servicing CEO, Matt Bivons chats embedded finance, convertible credit solutions, and transparency in fintech

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 •  By Elise Cox

Canopy Wins Silver Stevie® Award

The American Business Awards has honored Canopy Servicing with a Stevie — one of the most prestigious forms of business recognition in the United States.

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Glass piggy bank illustrates article on Fintech transparency
Industry Insights
 •  By Matt Bivons

Why Fintech Should Embrace Radical Transparency

Canopy CEO Matt Bivons explains why the time has come for better and documented industry processes and roles, anonymized data sharing, and clear and precise customer communication.

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 •  By Elise Cox

Canopy and Sivo Forge Partnership for Embedded Lending

Canopy, the most configurable loan management and servicing platform, and Sivo, an API for programmatic debt financing, are partnering to accelerate time to market for Fintechs with embedded lending products.

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 •  By Elise Cox

Canopy Is Awarded Best Open Banking API

FinTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for technology innovation and leadership around the globe, recognized Canopy for the "best open banking API" in its 2022 awards program.

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Industry Insights
Canopy HQ
 •  By Matt Bivons

How Credit Providers Can Make BNPL Safer for Consumers

Buy Now Pay Later payments have skyrocketed. Here are six ways providers can make BNPL safer while supporting innovation.

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Repeating lights and shapes represent the concept of immutability. By Bradley Jasper Ybanez.
Industry Insights
 •  By Elise Cox

Why Immutability is Critical to Fintechs

The concept of immutability, most commonly associated with a blockchain, is also essential for Fintechs.

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Canopy Servicing is partnering with the historic CBW Bank of Weir, Kansas.
Canopy HQ
 •  By Isabel Magdaleno

Canopy Servicing Announces Partnership with CBW Bank

One of the nation's most tech-forward banks, CBW Bank will leverage Canopy Servicing's loan management and servicing platform on behalf of its Fintech clients and its own products.

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Industry Insights
 •  By Dan Desmond

Consumers Say They Want Convertible Credit Now

Research shows consumers want flexible payment options beyond BNPL.

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A CSR agent takes care of a customer in a modern call center.
Industry Insights
 •  By Dan Desmond

Redefining Loan Management and Servicing

After decades of uniformity, credit and lending products are experiencing a renaissance thanks to new loan management and servicing platforms.

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 •  By Isabel Magdaleno

2021 Year in Review

Canopy Servicing experienced tremendous growth as clients launched and ramped on our loan management and servicing platform.

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A photograph of a customer service representative making a namaste sign illustrates an article about modern servicing driving the Fintech renewal.
Industry Insights
 •  By Elise Cox

Modern Servicing and the Fintech Renewal

Traditional Fintech in the form of neobanks, payment apps, and crypto maybe showing its age, but a Fintech renewal is underway, driven by credit and lending.

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An ornamental chain of wooden houses illustrates the availability of Canopy's BNPL Toolkit in our holiday release
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Product
 •  By Josh Kaplan

Analyze, Service, & Track BNPL Portfolios with Ease

Canopy Servicing's holiday release includes a BNPL Merchant Toolkit, a new integration with Authorize.net, and an ACH Controller.

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An image of a past due stamp illustrates our article on a better debt collection strategy.
Industry Insights
Canopy HQ
 •  By Elise Cox

A Better Debt Collection Strategy

How you think about debt collection — your strategy and the tactics you use — can be a competitive advantage. Read Canopy's guide to learn more.

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A handful of credit cards illustrates our fintech punch list article.
Industry Insights
Canopy HQ
 •  By Elise Cox

14 Steps to Launch Custom Credit, Debit, & Lending Products

Canopy has created a Fintech punch list to speed the launch of unique credit, debit, and lending products.

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An integrated circuit board illustrates completion of a Soc 2 Type 2 audit. Courtesy of Adi Goldstein 
and Unsplash.
Canopy HQ
 •  By Elise Cox

Canopy Completes SOC 2 Type 2 Certification

Canopy is proud to announce the successful completion of an independent SOC 2 Type 2 audit of the system controls we designed to ensure our service commitments around security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

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An image of the U.S. Capitol building illustrates a story about a hearing on regulating Buy Now Pay Later.
Industry Insights
Canopy HQ
 •  By Elise Cox

House Committee Considers Regulating Buy Now Pay Later

The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing last week to explore regulating Buy Now Pay Later, earned wage access, and overdraft protection services.

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A payment card in use illustrates a story on the Metro 2 format. Courtesy of Nathan Dumlao and Unsplash.
Industry Insights
 •  By Dennis Dang

Credit Report Accuracy and the Challenges of Metro 2

The goal of the Metro 2 format is to enable credit information that is accurate, complete, and timely. But proper implementation of Metro 2 has proven challenging for the financial services industry.

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The popularity of Klarna's pay in four interest-free loans was evident in an annual report by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.
 •  By Elise Cox

14 New Statistics Highlight Changing Borrower Behavior

An annual report by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation released earlier this month revealed a remarkable shift in the behavior of California borrowers between 2019 and 2020.

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An image of a computer and a headset illustrates our article on servicing complaints. Photo courtesy of Petr Macháček and Unsplash.
Industry Insights
 •  By Elise Cox

A Servicing Health Check

As older servicing infrastructure reaches the end of its life, servicing complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about servicing are growing.

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A graphic illustrates the partnership announcement from Canopy and Lithic.
Canopy HQ
 •  By Elise Cox

Canopy and Lithic Announce a Partnership

Canopy Servicing is thrilled to announce our partnership with Lithic, a complete virtual and physical card issuing platform built for developers.

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A chart showing payment method use by age range is based on data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Industry Insights
 •  By Elise Cox

Are Millennials Changing Their Attitude Toward Credit?

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, use of debit cards in a typical month for cardholders between the ages of 25 and 34 is falling and the use of credit cards is rising.

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An illustration featuring branded images with the text "The Modern Servicing Infrastructure for Scaling Fintechs."
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 •  By Matt Bivons

We Are an API-First, Modern Loan Management System

Canopy's modern loan management system makes it possible for Fintechs and brands to launch innovative financial products and service them with an immutable system of record.

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