South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

On a risk-adjusted return on equity basis, banks moved their target from 16% that held for most of last year, to now looking at a 20% risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC). Countering this trend is more competitive lending than we have seen in 2024 that manifests in more price concessions and less than expected margin relief.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Key Takeaways Commercial real estate lending will be a top focus for many financial institutions in 2020. Macy’s closing 125 stores signals ‘more pain’ for retailers,” ABC News reported Feb. Retailers like Pier 1, Papyrus and Express are closing 1,000 stores. CRE a top focus for many bankers. Learn more.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Who the competition is, what the lending competition is offering, their delivery channels, and service levels can help community banks differentiate their services and enhance their competitive advantage. Community bankers need to understand their competitive landscape. The banking industry is nationwide and is becoming less branch-focused.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 4, 2025

Will capital, for instance, become more expensive or cheaper? For example, the problem of improving earnings becomes: Rank the most effective way for the bank to increase profit by 20% within the next 2 years while increasing risk by only 10% and holding capital constant.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 26, 2019

Banks have focused much of their innovation efforts on retail in recent years, with corporate banking services taking a backseat. Capital One announced on Friday that it was acquiring BlueTarp, a business-to-business credit company. Capital One […].

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 26, 2018

launched its Marcus digital bank in late 2016, the conventional wisdom was the investment bank wanted to expand into retail banking. EXCLUSIVE— When Goldman Sachs & Co. But, apparently, that’s not the whole story. Marcus, it seems, is an asset pricing play, Goldman’s CEO implied yesterday.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 11, 2020

It was into this world that the much celebrated digital lending fintech OnDeck recently sold to Enova for $90 million, a virtual fire sale at way under 1X OnDeck’s revenue. For anyone thinking that Wall Street investment banking was separate from Main Street retail banking, commercial banking and fintech, 2020 is clearing that up.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

Digital lending marketplace BitX Funding , which matches business owners and non-bank lenders, is aiming to help Amazon third-party (3P) sellers grow. ” Rowe continued, “ Amazon sellers start off with an Amazon Working Capital Loan, but over time they hit a wall as their growth is capped at $1 million in financing.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

However, in today’s economy and rapid interest rate changes, the 1.20x and 75% LTV are highly misleading measures, and the reason for this is the expected increase in currently low real estate capitalization (cap) rates. The post The Problem With DSCR and LTV in Lending appeared first on SouthState Correspondent Division.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The two primary issues keeping some lenders from the top of their home equity game are 1) ambiguity in the ownership of their home equity functions and 2) a lack of maturity in their lending systems and processes. Some lenders do a solid job repurposing mortgage lending staff into home equity roles.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

Blockchain Co-Founder and CEO Peter Smith said per the report, “Institutional and retail investors have the same financial goals — grow wealth and manage risks — but the tools at their disposal are vastly different.”. The offering occurs following Blockchain’s opening of an institutional lending desk last summer.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Goldman Sachs and Amazon are in discussions about the possibility of partnering for small and medium-sized (SMB) business lending in the U.S., Goldman would use its latest lending technology to offer SMB loans on Amazon’s lending platform as soon as next month, two sources told FT. Financial Times reported on Monday (Feb.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 18, 2023

WATCH Takeaway 1 Banks and credit unions are critical sources of capital for businesses in their communities, so how institutions assess CRE credits matters. Takeaway 3 Loan-level stress testing can help assess repricing risk, while capital stress testing helps clarify the impact of CRE loan losses on capital. is robust.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 31, 2017

Well think of it like this: Traditional banks are built to service three main client cohorts; 1) Large Corporates, 2) High net worth individuals and 3) homogenous retail. Hi John, so why is SME banking getting so much attention at the minute? They struggle tremendously to service users and customers that sit outside of those parameters.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Roady, who has been on MoneyLion’s board of directors since 2016, was previously a founding partner at GAIN Capital and president of its global retail brokerage business. Personal finance, banking and investment platform MoneyLion has named Samantha Roady chief operating officer as it makes moves to expand its customer base.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

As retailers get into the thick of the holiday selling season, several emerging digital-first options are coming to the fore. Many of them capitalize on new platforms for social commerce and a relatively new concept called shoppable media. The concept is similar to social commerce, but has key differences.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that financial regulators should look more closely at the role of non-bank tech companies in the small business (SMB) lending and consumer lending markets. Such alternative data, said the GAO, could pose risk to such lending decisions. Sandboxes, Gathering Steam.

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Lending Fintech Data Wyoming 150

PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

Square Capital LLC processed more than $820 million in Small Business Administration (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) forgivable loans in six weeks, the firm reported. Last year, Square Capital did $2.3 Of that number, 60 percent of the borrowers had never before received a loan through Square Capital.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

CircleUp entered the market in 2012 as a data driven variation on venture capital (VC) funding to solve for part of that problem in retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms. CircleUp’s lending platform was founded in 2017 to fill that hole and has underwritten about $300 million in loans since then. The first is focus.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 9, 2016

Investors were looking to today’s Lending Club Corp. earnings as a sign of validation for the troubled marketplace lending sector. Instead, they got scandal. The company said Renaud Laplanche has resigned as chief executive and chairman after an internal review found sales of $22 million in near-prime loans to a Read More.

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Lending Company Capital Online 150

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

4), Wang Wenbin, China’s foreign ministry spokesman, said the decision to suspend the Ant Group IPO was made to “better maintain the stability of the capital markets and to protect investors’ interests,” the Financial Times reported. Chinese regulators are also growing concerned about the breakneck growth of Ant Group’s lending business.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 23, 2018

As mobile wallets and consumer-to-business payments platforms grow in popularity as the preferred payment method among retail shoppers, it seems only natural that merchants should consider digital POS lending or instant financing options as a means to encourage more online purchases. Indeed, they are. Read More.

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Online Lending Survey Retail 218

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Goldman, according to reports in Bloomberg, would be added to the Amazon lending platform, which has traditionally helped merchants get the funding they need to get inventory. Amazon Lending traces its roots back to 2011, and the company had $863 million in SMB loans, according to recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Lending Apple Study Online 146

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Although the COVID era continues to have an outsized impact on small businesses, frontline lending experts say SMBs have recently begun to catch a break when it comes to getting loans through FinTechs and other non-bank lenders. As a result, he’s seen average cash balances shrink 50 percent from pre-COVID levels to fewer than 15 days now. “So,

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ABA Community Banking

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

An approach that not only addresses challenges of access to capital for underserved communities, but one that also builds a customer pipeline for the future. The post Bank Community Engagement: Small-business lending can be a win-win. Here’s how. appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This week's look at the most recent initiatives in partnerships and open banking reveals a focus on SMB lending and finance, while Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) also gains traction to allow non-banks to offer their own banking services to corporate customers. HSBC is adopting Biz2Credit 's Bix2X Platform to streamline its SMB lending processes.

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BankUnderground

JULY 20, 2022

These are unlikely to work in the same fashion as rate cuts in positive territory, because of difficulties with charging negative interest rates on retail deposits, and because of banks’ negative return on excess liquidity. This effect was especially strong for undercapitalised banks and lending to risky firms.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 23, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – The two fundamental keys to most challenges retail banks and payment companies face on the innovation front are personalization and efficiency, according to Alberto Corvo, a founding partner at fintech focused investment firm Motive Partners.

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BankUnderground

APRIL 28, 2023

Mahmoud Fatouh Small banks tend to have more specialised business models, likely focusing on commercial and retail banking activities, and show limited interconnectedness to other financial institutions. Although capital standards existed before 2010, they were significantly weaker.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 21, 2023

The three risks are: 1) rising funding costs to erode profitability, 2) reduced capital at small banks compared to larger banks, and 3) elevated commercial real estate (CRE) credit risks. By relying on retail CDs, banks cannibalize their lower cost of retail funding and increase their deposit beta.

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Abrigo

MARCH 9, 2017

Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) loan funds help to promote healthy communities by providing early-stage credit, capital, and financial services to small businesses, affordable housing and community facilities developers, community organizations, and other types of borrowers. communities where capital tends to be scarce.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Many SMEs, he said, will fail because of a lack of access to working capital or other support in the current economy, which will lead to those companies’ “ambition, energy & creativity extinguished, along with reduced consumer choice and countless jobs,” AltFi wrote. retailers spiked 44 percent year-over-year in the second quarter.

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Cards Fintech Management Lending 254

Abrigo

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to better understanding and serving customers in the community, the issue is not that community financial institutions don’t have enough data – it’s that they’re not able to properly organize and capitalize on the data that they have. Lending & Credit Risk. CRE Lending. Lending & Credit Risk.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Venture capital is no guarantee in times of market volatility, but this week’s B2B venture capital breakdown finds several companies managing to secure millions for solutions that enable B2B eCommerce, financial management and alternative lending.

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Capital Lending Operations Software 160

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With more than $1 billion raised — and more to come — this week became the most lucrative for B2B FinTech venture capital funding. said the company saw BHL Holdings lead the second Series A funding round, while Nire Capital and existing backers Concentric, Seedcamp and Beazley also participated. Reports in Verdict.co.uk

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Fintech Capital Lending Report 175

PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

As Eiriz explained, the small business lending community has the opportunity, and perhaps even the obligation, to embrace collaboration and dig deeper into the entrepreneurial community in order to best serve SMBs and support the broader economy. "There is this feeling of an unsure future right now," she recently told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

Rocket Companies, the parent of mortgage lending giant Quicken Loans , reduced its terms to go public, Bloomberg reported. Rocket describes itself as the largest retail mortgage lender in the U.S. The company, founded by billionaire Dan Gilbert, is seeking to raise about $2 billion in an initial public offering (IPO).

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