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Lending standards slip, risk increasing according to OCC

Abrigo

Lending standards continue to relax, according to data from the OCC’s 2014 Survey of Credit Underwriting Practices. This type of easing is similar to that experienced between 2004 and 2006, the time period leading up to the financial crisis, which many attribute to inadequate lending standards.

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

Abrigo

Ready to catch the next wave of lending growth? Commercial and industrial lending (C&I) will be the next big performance driver for banks and credit unions. You might also like this paper on how institutions can produce smarter, faster lending. C&I lending will be the next “bomb.”

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Dialing Up Performance in Home Equity Lending

Gonzobanker

With the inefficient, circa-2004 borrowing processes resident in many banks’ loan departments today, too few lenders are equipped to deal with the rising tide of home equity volumes that will descend like a tsunami on their operations the moment Fed chairman Jerome (What-Are-We-Waiting-For) Powell announces a rate cut.

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PayPal Sells Consumer Loans to Long-Time Partner Synchrony Financial

Bank Innovation

Synchrony Bank has been PayPal’s banking partner since 2004. Yesterday, the San Jose, Calif-based PayPal said it agreed to sell $5.8 billion in consumer credit receivables to Stamford, Conn-based Synchrony Bank, a unit of Synchrony Financial. In addition to selling its credit […].

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NCUA proposed rule: MBL flexibility for credit unions?

Abrigo

On June 18th, the board of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) unanimously approved five items , including a proposed rule aimed at modernizing member business lending (MBL). Small business lending at credit unions has continued to increase over the last several years. billion in 2004. billion in 2004.

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CashCall, Courts And California’s Increasingly Confusing Lending Market

PYMNTS

All that to say this has been an especially tough week for CashCall, and possibly the entire installment lending industry in the state. The plaintiffs borrowed from CashCall at rates of 96 percent or 135 percent between 2004 and 2011. The California Court Loss. There’s no bright line,” she said.

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Banks and CDFIs: Partnering for community impact

Abrigo

Terms range broadly based on the interests of the bank and the activities and needs of the CDFI—from short term operating lines of credit to long term loans that support a CDFI’s lending to affordable housing and community facilities developers, for example.

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