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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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Global Bankers Release $500B In Capital To Facilitate Lending

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Financial regulators have made $500 billion in capital available for lenders around the world , which gives lenders the freedom for another $5 trillion of loans around the world to go toward cushioning the blow the coronavirus has dealt to the world’s economy. In the U.S., unemployment has soared to record highs.

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Will the cost of regulation impact community bank customers?

Abrigo

The banking industry has seen a steady stream of media attention since 2008, much of it in the form of stories about data breaches linked to major retailers or mega banks’ profits. Two recent surveys addressing the community banking landscape have pointed to increasing regulations as the primary cause of stress for these institutions.

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Kenya Moves To Regulate Digital Lending

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We have a lot of predatory lending out here, which we want to regulate,” Geoffrey Mwau, director general of budget, fiscal and economic affairs at the country’s treasury, said on Thursday (May 24).

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Americans Are Borrowing Like It’s 2008 … Sort Of

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trillion peak it reached in the fall of 2008 — the same time that the Great Recession was earning its place in the history books. trillion at the end of the first quarter of 2017, up $473 billion from a year ago and $50 billion above the previous 2008 record. trillion in household debt of 2008 represented 85 percent of the U.S.

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Things worth reading: 18th October 2018

Chris Skinner

Things we’re reading today include: Growing corporate debt echoes 2008 crisis It’s time to worry when the Bank hears echoes of the sub-prime crisis Further blow for scandal-hit Danske Bank as regulator blocks board’s CEO pick Bank of England raises alarm over surge in high-risk lending Britain fell for a … The post Things (..)

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Why Regulation Won’t Fix Credit Reporting Agencies

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has strongly hinted that the agency she birthed in 2008 and opened for business in 2011 — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — should be given the authority to do even more. We don’t need more regulation. After all, The Big Three were regulated by the CFPB and the FTC, and look where that got us.

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