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Prepare for stronger C&I lending demand: A $1.7 trillion “wave”

Abrigo

Takeaway 3 To fully capitalize on the forthcoming C&I wave, institutions need the right products, systems, people, and technology. Indeed, measuring C&I balances from the low to the high of an expansionary period shows commercial lending grew by the following amounts during recent upcycles: 1993-2001: 87.5% 2004-2008: 82.6%

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Billtrust’s First Institutional Investor Sells Stake

PYMNTS

A press release issued Monday (May 14) said Edison sold its stake in Billtrust to private equity firm W Capital Partners. That takeover sees Billtrust expanding its Quantum offering to integrate business credit reports, online credit applications, machine learning-powered credit scoring and credit analytics.

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Tracking The Trends That Shaped 2020’s The Digital-First Economy

PYMNTS

As told by Citi and GE , the pandemic prompted a massive online shift as stores closed and consumers became wary about venturing out. The year-over-year increase in cross-border online sales was even more dramatic in other regions. There was another inconspicuous but remarkable dimension to these trends, however.

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Data Dive, Farewells Edition: Apple, Chase, SoFi, Uber

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iTunes dominated after its 2001 release by putting two things in one place that had never existed before: a digital MP3 player that actually worked, properly paired with a store that made accessing music for a small fee much easier than trying to pirate it. SoFi and Uber Reshuffle Their Upper Levels.

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Green Dot CEO: 20 Years Of Innovating ‘Banking For The Masses’

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That brought about an idea to create a card that would give kids — who didn’t have a credit card, but did have access to high-speed internet at school — a way to buy things online. By 2001, sales were good enough that Streit was able to persuade CVS and Walgreens to get in on the action. area Rite Aid stores in 1998. What’s Next.

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When Predictions Go Right … And Not So Right

PYMNTS

Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the internet (which there isn’t), the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.”. In fairness, it was 1995 — Amazon was a year old and a bookseller online. and around the world.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 To you, manage your interest rate risk.

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