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title: Helping Big Lenders with Financing Options for SME Lenders
description: Traditional banks now realize the value in working with FinTech startups, augmenting their own service offerings by integrating the innovations of others. Lending has become one of the largest benefactors of this trend, with alternative lenders once viewed as competitors to the banks now working with them to strengthen financing…
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# [Helping Big Lenders with Financing Options for SME Lenders](https://bakerhill.com/news/big-lenders-big-data/)

 Written by [Baker Hill](https://bakerhill.com/news/author/baker-hill) | Oct 7, 2016 5:00:00 AM

Traditional banks now realize the value in working with FinTech startups, augmenting their own service offerings by integrating the innovations of others. Lending has become one of the largest benefactors of this trend, with alternative lenders once viewed as competitors to the banks now working with them to strengthen financing options for SME borrowers.

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