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Online lender Kreditech raises US$10m from Rakuten

The investment comes out of Rakuten’s fintech startup fund, which it launched last year. Kreditech works with big data to build credit histories for ‘unbankable’ consumers. The funding follows its last round, which closed at US$105m this year.

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