Nearly eight years ago, Chicago-based online consumer lender Avant raised $325 million in equity at a valuation close to $2 billion, bringing the total amount of equity it had collected at the time to ...

Chicago-based online consumer lender Avant today agreed to pay $3.85 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleging the company overcharged hundreds of borrowers in multiple ways over ...

"Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of Their Time illuminates the work of five women who took radical risks in their lives and in their art. Inspired and challenged by Chicago, they helped ...

Chicago-based online lender Avant is launching a new company to oversee the services it provides to banks and aiming to hire 50 tech employees in the next year to help grow the software offering.

Over the past few years a crop of online lending startups have popped up to help people with less-than-perfect credit bypass a bank and secure a loan over the web. In Chicago, four-year-old Avant has ...

The co-founder and CEO of online consumer lender Avant spoke Tuesday at Northwestern about what it means to be an entrepreneur in Chicago. Al Goldstein spoke to a crowd of about 25 students, Evanston ...

Fintech company Avant is best known for its online lending products, but a new acquisition will help it expand into more financial services. On Wednesday, Chicago-based Avant announced its acquisition ...