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Blispay Seeks Partnership with Merchant Acquiring Banks

Bank Innovation

Founded in 2014, Baltimore-based Blispay provides point of sale financing for customers of small and medium-sized merchants. EXCLUSIVE — Point of sale financing provider, Blispay is looking at partnerships as its next phase of growth.

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Blispay Doubles Merchant Network, Plans New Finance Terms

Bank Innovation

The Baltimore-based Read More. Small and medium-sized merchants, however, don’t usually have that option. Blispay – launched in March last year – is set to tackle that issue, with a solution aimed at SMEs.

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After poaching M&T exec, Maryland bank plots next moves

American Banker

Howard Bancorp is planning a big push in CRE lending, first in its hometown of Baltimore and eventually in Washington.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

Here, we highlight some of last year’s most successful loan producers in the areas of agriculture, commercial and consumer/mortgage lending. The score combines the average of the bank’s percentile rank for lending concentration and for loan growth over the past year in each lending category. By Ed Avis. Methodology. AGRICULTURE.

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BofA defends giving priority to customers in rescue-loan program

American Banker

Bank of America, which came under fire for prioritizing applications from existing small-business customers, asked a federal judge in Baltimore to reject a request in a lawsuit to temporarily bar it from employing the practice.

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NCRC Files Appraisal Bias Complaints with HUD and Issues a Related Report

CFPB Monitor

The tests were conducted in the Baltimore, MD metropolitan area in 2021 and 2022 and included four interracial couples—one spouse was Black, and one spouse was White. Require fair lending training in the licensing process for appraisers. Create a more meaningful process for the reconsideration of appraisals.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

In order to compete as a small bank, we have been forced to keep higher-than-peer capital levels, so that our lending limit allows us to service local borrowers’ needs. based bank attributes its growth to a hot housing market, its focus on builder and home mortgage lending, and the economic success in its markets. “We Cross River Bank.