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The European banking system is flat-lining

Chris Skinner

By 2007, bank assets in many developed countries had reached in excess of 100 per cent of gross domestic product (“GDP”). In 2007, bank assets in the US were around 78 per cent of GDP. The banks feed domestic credit, financing asset purchases, investment and consumption as well as cross border lending.

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Preparing For the 7 Waves From The Fed Hike

South State Correspondent

This decision coincided with rate hikes by the Swiss National Bank, its first since 2007, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank announced at an emergency meeting that they would raise interest rates next month and again in September. The market, however, expects a higher year-end Fed Funds rate at 3.65%.

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PNC Eyes Buying US Unit Of Spain's BBVA, Report Says

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The acquisition could have the effect of boosting PNC's presence in the southeast and west where the markets are growing quickly, according to WSJ. BBVA bought Alabama's Compass Bancshares in 2007 and has around $100 billion in assets in the U.S., including branches around the Sunbelt with a large presence in Texas. according to WSJ.

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

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And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Necessity is the mother of invention.

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SME Alt-Lending Headed For Crash, Firm Says

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The alternative small business lending market has some of the hallmarks of the market conditions that led to the 2007 financial crisis, claims Bibby Financial Services Chief Executive David Postings. We are seeing signs of overheating in the small and medium-sized business lending market,” he told the publication.

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How The Lending Landscape Is Quietly Changing

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Interest rates plummeted as the Fed held the federal funds rate at zero in the hopes of stimulating lending in an environment where credit went from dangerously free-flowing to dangerously non-existent in the span of a few months. People are buying houses such that there is now a supply shortage in the market. economy.

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Lending Club’s Terrible Twos

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Two years ago today, Lending Club was ringing the bell on an IPO that one early investor called “a no-brainer.”. The consumer credit market has huge potential — trillions and trillions of dollars — and I wanted to ride that winner. I crossed paths with Laplanche back in 2007 and wanted to back him right away,” Petrushka said.

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