Accenture: Banking

AUGUST 2, 2024

As you start strategic planning this August, consider this: automated, data-driven lending is no longer a future vision—it’s happening now. In our Commercial Banking Top Trends for 2024, we spotlight this critical trend shaping the industry’s future.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

China’s peer-to-peer (P2P) lending sector, once 6,000 businesses strong, has been reduced to fewer than three dozen as the government tightened regulations, leaving billions in loans unpaid. At one time, the P2P industry issued more than $150 billion of loans from 50 million investors. 14), per the report.

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Abrigo

APRIL 25, 2024

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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, and banks' subsequent pullback from the small- to medium-sized business ( SMB ) lending arena, a slew of alternative lenders emerged onto the scene to fill the credit gap. What's just as important is to ensure that lending technology is flexible.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How industry analysis can improve your credit risk management Understanding your customers' businesses leads to better loan pricing, structure, and risk management. WATCH WEBINARS Takeaway 1 All businesses perform industry analysis, but financial institutions in particular must know their customers' competitive landscape.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But it’s often difficult to find factual, comprehensive industry-wide data about interest rates on the new loans being made at banks and credit unions. Loan pricing software can help banks and credit unions structure and optimize pricing to ensure the institution is adequately compensated for risk. Make informed decisions faster.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Automating the key steps that often occur in the back office leads to faster decisions, stronger customer or member relationships, and more profitable lending to small businesses. This article covers these key topics: Cultivating fertile ground for small business lending Do large lenders have an advantage in small business lending?

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Abrigo

MARCH 21, 2025

The latest CRA framework categorizes banks (CRA requirements are not extended to credit unions) into three tiers based on asset size, with differing compliance requirements: Small banks (assets under $600 million) Can opt-in to the new CRA tests or remain on a streamlined lending test that focuses on retail activities.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Abrigo's most popular whitepapers and checklists on lending and credit risk Abrigo experts' insights on CFPB 1071, loan policies, and risk ratings were popular with banking professionals. Watch NOW Takeaway 1 Abrigo's experts produced many pieces on lending and credit risk to provide strategies and tools to help banking professionals.

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Abrigo

JULY 20, 2024

Ready to catch the next wave of lending growth? Commercial and industrial lending (C&I) will be the next big performance driver for banks and credit unions. You might also like this paper on how institutions can produce smarter, faster lending. C&I lending will be the next “bomb.”

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The most-read lending & credit blogs in 2023 Probability of default, CECL model validation, and stress testing were among Abrigo's top blogs on ALM, CECL, and portfolio risk this year. Takeaway 2 The top lending and credit blog posts focused on the benefits of banking technology, interest rate management, and developing risk ratings.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Develop an MBL program while mitigating risk Credit unions looking for alternate paths to growth in today's rising rate environment may be primed to leverage member business lending. Takeaway 3 The specific policy areas outlined below should be carefully considered by credit unions engaged in member business lending.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

Federal and state authorities are targeting companies that allegedly lend money to small businesses at extreme rates and seek to collect payments with heavy-handed tactics, NBC News reported Tuesday (Aug. One business owners said he felt as if he were dealing with an entity almost like “a gangster operation.”.

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Abrigo

JULY 25, 2022

Strong demand is a factor in the ag lending outlook ahead Ag lenders can begin taking steps to ensure they are prepared and can provide positive customer or member experiences. The outlook for ag lending has its share of uncertainty. Inflation, rates are factors in ag lending outlook. Farmers expect worse in 2023. Rising inputs.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This blog was co-authored by Perficient’s Chief Strategist and banking expert: Scott Albahary A slowing global economy, coupled with a divergent economic landscape, poses challenges for the banking industry in 2024. Facilitation of embedded lending while ensuring compliance: Embedded finance initiatives must adhere to regulatory requirements.

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Perficient

MARCH 17, 2025

Financial Services Trend #1: AI Transforming the Future of Finance Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the financial services industry, driving significant advancements across banking, wealth and asset management, payments, and beyond. This blog brings together these insights, presenting the top financial services trends for 2025.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 28, 2022

Develop better ag lending workflows before demand picks up. A better ag lending process makes applying smoother for borrowers and can allow efficient ag loan growth without adding a lot of staff. Takeaway 1 Now is the time to plant the seeds for harvesting growth in the ag loan portfolio by creating a better ag lending process.

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Payments Dive

JULY 18, 2024

The federal agency weighed in Thursday with a proposed rule to oversee the burgeoning earned wage access industry.

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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. The banking industry is nationwide and is becoming less branch-focused.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 9, 2018

A new fintech startup is letting consumers make loans to peers and positioning itself as an alternative to the payday loan industry, and there’s something in it for banks too. Since launching this past April, SoLo Funds, a P2P lending platform, has processed nearly $200,000 in small-dollar short-term loans.

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Abrigo

APRIL 11, 2025

One example: a $400 million-plus bank serving customers and businesses in western Ohio and through its specialty lines of business nationwide began a project to optimize its use of Abrigos Sageworks lending and credit solutions. Find out how Abrigo helps optimize lending with small business loan origination software.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 7, 2024

In commercial banking, lending optionality occurs for liquidity, credit, or interest rates. Another example of interest rate lending optionality is a lack of prepayment protection on loans. Liquidity optionality is a common, but manageable, risk in the industry. But they can, and should, charge for that option value.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Personalized Touch with Efficient Service Can Boost Lending Banks and credit unions can boost business lending by combining a relationship focus with transaction-oriented processing. . This competition can only increase as the lending landscape continues to shift.

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Abrigo

APRIL 12, 2021

What an LOS Is, and How It Benefits CFIs A loan origination system automates and manages the lending process to address common challenges. Takeaway 1 The lending landscape is increasingly competitive and the process is frustrating. However, the term LOS can have different meanings to bankers across the industry.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Google Cloud is aiming to innovate the mortgage industry with its new artificial intelligence (AI) tool called Lending DocAI. 19) that the mortgage industry is just one of many verticals being transformed by AI. “In Lending DocAI is part of Google's Document AI portfolio for the mortgage industry.

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Payments Dive

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

“The CFPB’s plan to reclassify EWA as a loan could accidentally backfire on the agency by driving people right back to the payday lending industry,” writes one tech trade group professional.

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Abrigo

APRIL 2, 2024

Stand-ou t bank business strateg ies for lending success These bank business strategies will help you market, target, add value to your lending services and build lasting relationships with your borrowers. Lending is a competitive and challenging industry, requiring constant innovation to attract and retain customers.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 24, 2025

Step 2: Triage and Open Client Communication Starting with your highest credit exposure in key industries, such as manufacturing, every relationship manager should understand where their clients are exposed and what the residual risks are from the array of market changes. The primary focus is on how business cash flows are affected.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Hospitality is currently at 8.2%, retail at 8.6%, multifamily at 4.99%, industrial/warehouse at 5.40%, and office at 6.8%. The relationship between cap rates, interest rates, DSCR, and LTV are all now conspiring to make real estate lending especially perilous. Cap rates for different categories of real estate vary (see graph below).

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 18, 2022

For example, 40% of JP Morgan’s commercial banking revenue is derived from fee income, and JP Morgan’s commercial banking division is composed of middle-market and commercial real estate (CRE) lending. Industry Comparison of Fee Income. Larger banks have historically operated on thinner NIM but higher fee income.

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