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It’s no secret that the financial industry’s upstart fintech players have picked a fight with some of the country’s biggest banks over the future of the loan business. But this month that battle spilled over into something far less existential: A dispute over access to electronic money-transfer services.

Cato Pastoll, co-founder of the peer-to-peer lender Lending Loop, says his online platform was abruptly removed from the electronic bill-payment services of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Bank of Nova Scotia this month. It relies on the services to access online accounts from individuals who want to fund its crowd-sourced loans.

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Lending Loop retained a law firm, which wrote to the banks to complain about the abrupt withdrawal of access, without notice or sufficient explanation, and the service was resumed. But Pastoll said he was then given 30 days’ notice that he will lose access again, meaning that Lending Loop will be cut off from the two banks’ customers again in early January.