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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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CashCall, Courts And California’s Increasingly Confusing Lending Market

PYMNTS

According to reports in the LA Times , CashCall is no longer offering an online loan application on its website, and a call to customer services indicated that CashCall officially stepped out of the personal loans to consumer businesses about a month ago. At least, they did. The California Court Loss. There’s no bright line,” she said.

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Despite China’s Slowing Economy, Credit Demand Still Strong

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Chinese online finance giant Ant Financial, headed by billionaire Jack Ma, is seeing an uptick in the desire for credit among small and medium businesses despite the economic slowdown in China, Bloomberg reported on Thursday (Oct. Consumer and business lending crumbled last year, prompting regulators to lower the cost of borrowing.

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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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Alibaba’s Ant Financial IPO Rumored For Late 2017

PYMNTS

Ant Financial, the $60 billion online financial extension from Alibaba, says it’s putting growth first by expanding its number of users from the current 450 million, by adding merchants and more customers into the mix. Alibaba launched Alipay in 2004, and later peeled off on its on accord ten years later.

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Community Banks Embrace Faster Payments’ Competitive Edge

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has dropped from 8,000 in 2004 to about 5,400 in 2018. The Federal Reserve released a report last April, finding that community banks yield greater satisfaction with small business borrowers than any other kind of FI, even as satisfaction with online and marketplace lenders rises, too.