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Small Business Banking Catching Up in Innovation Race

Bank Innovation

There are quite a few lending solutions these days for small businesses -- Funding Circle, OnDeck, Kabbage, and Square Capital, to name a just a few -- but innovation and digitization are lagging in other areas, such as digital account opening. Atlanta-based Gro has […].

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Small business lending insights Vol. 1

Abrigo

Recent data and trends of the small business lending market SMB Lending Insights is a snapshot of current financial trends and metrics that impact small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending and financial institutions. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending.

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Mastercard Commits $500M To Boost Black Communities, Businesses

PYMNTS

The new initiative will include “concentrated investments that will focus on providing Black-owned businesses and Black people access to affordable financial tools and capital,” Mastercard said in a news release. Mastercard said it will invest $500 million in Black communities across the U.S. This is a time for action.

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Lending FinTech GreenSky Files For IPO

PYMNTS

Lending FinTech GreenSky has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO). The Wall Street Journal reported that the Atlanta-based company, which enables retailers, health-care providers and home contractors to offer loans to their customers, could go public as soon as this summer.

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Q2’s Acquisition of Gro Came Through an Investor Introduction

Bank Innovation

The digital banking software provider Q2 Holdings announced yesterday it had acquired Atlanta-based digital sales platform Gro Solutions. Q2 announced it was buying Cloud Lending, a cloud-based lending platform, in August. In 2017, […].

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Kabbage Scores Another European Bank with Santander UK Deal

Bank Innovation

Atlanta-based small business lender Kabbage is snapping up bank deals in Europe. Yesterday, the company announced it had reached an agreement with Santander UK to serve the bank’s SME customers. This follows a similar deal with ING in Spain last October.

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Pricing Models – 4 Changes Banks Need to Make Now

South State Correspondent

Making loans is central to your bank’s operations, and lending has a compounding effect on profitability. Change 1: Cost of Capital and Capital Allocation. Back in 2020, banks’ capital cost was at a record low as it averaged a little under 6% for the industry. A 15% RAROC target equates to about a 1.7%

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