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Best Egg provides personal loans from Cross River Bank and Blue Ridge Bank. Borrowers can use these loans for most purpo...

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College Ave, the prominent US company specializing in private student loans and student loan refinancing, is based in Wi...

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MEFA, or the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, were founded in 1982 to offer low-cost financing to students...

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LendKey is a marketplace lender that helps match people looking for private student loans and refinancing solutions with...

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Citizens Bank has been operating for almost 200 years and is one of the largest financial companies in the US. The compa...

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Since 2006, the online-only OnDeck has specialized in providing small businesses financial help and business loans. The ...

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Fora Financial

Fora Financial was founded in 2008 to address a gap in the market for small business funding. Fora Financial offers two ...

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Discover

Discover was created by Sears in 1985 as a credit card company. Since then, it has branched out into a fully-fledged fin...

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