South State Correspondent

JANUARY 6, 2025

But we feel that CTLs offer community banks profitable lending opportunities. The credit default market requires only 94.5bps per annum fee for default protection. The graph below demonstrates Starbucks Corporations historical share price, credit default premium, and 1-year probability of default in the market for the last five years.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 7, 2024

In commercial banking, lending optionality occurs for liquidity, credit, or interest rates. If rates fall during that period, the borrower will ask the lender to reprice to market or threaten to take business elsewhere. Another example of interest rate lending optionality is a lack of prepayment protection on loans.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 20, 2016

Regions Financial Corp. The Regions-Avant partnership was announced last April. is using its upcoming Avant deployment as an opportunity to “refresh” its digital offerings. “[W]e’re in the process even Read More.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

The market will be watching closely whether financial institutions (FIs) are able to address some of the biggest headaches from the first round of PPP loans, namely an influx of applications that can overwhelm lenders’ systems. LendingTree. The companies said their initiative is geared toward enabling community FIs a competitive edge.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A resurgent job market (with 257,000 U.S. And just as in mortgage lending , credit unions are seeing a bigger piece of the consumer loan pie. credit union auto lending portfolios are faring. Across the country used vehicle loans nearly doubled their new counterparts by lending volume. in January, a jump of 0.5

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 10, 2015

Competition is intense and every lender is looking for an advantage against the national or regional bank. In the course of our work with community bankers, we deal with hundreds of banks across the country and talk to thousands of lenders.

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Abrigo

MARCH 27, 2025

Have we changed our lending practices (new products, risk appetite)? Step 3: Align Q factors with risk categories To keep things structured, organize your qualitative factors into key categories: Economic environment National, regional, and local economic trends.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

The funding will be used to introduce B-North’s regional “Lending Pods” across Manchester in the second quarter of 2020. The strength of investor response is testament to the B-North offering, and the quality and efficiency of lending that we can deliver to help [SMBs] fulfill their potential, thereby driving the U.K.

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MAY 21, 2020

For the second consecutive month, each of the nation’s four regions saw sales dwindle in year-over-year sales, with the West seeing the greatest dip. Despite falling sales, median home prices for all housing types continued to rise in every region of the country last month to $286,800, up 7.4 percent in the region.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Utilizing the Bank Information platform, Sageworks recently released a ranking of the top mortgage lending credit unions in the U.S. by geographic region , identifying the top 10 credit unions by mortgage loan volume for the Northeast, South, Midwest and South. Image via Mapcustomizer.com.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

Sezzle — a “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) company based in Minnesota, but listed in Australia — was denied a crucial lending license from California. Afterpay released a statement confirming approval of its own California lending license six weeks ago, upping its shares by 4.6 The company offers U.S. ”

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

I mean, throughout the Latin American region that has happened, but it has been massive in Brazil. We saw market research a couple of weeks ago that indicates the market evolved about 10 years in eight weeks in terms of increase in penetration. “Brazil at the beginning of last year was a different Brazil, for sure,” he said. “We

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Avant’s consumer-facing product is devised as a digital alternative to that market. We’re also a pure-play technology company, designed to support banks [that] want to offer lending products, but … either can’t or won’t dedicate hundreds of millions to building the capacity,” he said. A Better Option For Banks.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 28, 2019

Slow lending decisions and frustrating loan application processes are among borrowers’ biggest gripes with traditional financial institutions vs competitors such as online or alternative lenders. Drive faster lending decisions. throughout the loan process. Get started.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Australia is now the Asia Pacific region’s second-largest alternative finance market, largely due to a favorable regulatory climate, according to new KPMG analysis. The Australian market is quickly becoming a hotbed of alternative lending , and new analysis from KPMG suggests it has risen up in the ranks.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It’s no accident that technology companies that have historically not operated in the financial services space are expanding into the small business lending arena. While the Southeast Asia region tends to get lumped together, Mehrotra said each market is unique, with two main groups of developed and developing countries.

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ABA Community Banking

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As president and CEO of $50 billion-plus BOK Financial, Stacy Kymes spends time thinking about the role of regional banks in the U.S. Here's how BOK Financial finds unique niches and meets the credit and capital market needs in its core mid-America markets.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Accurate and streamlined investment accounting supports overall risk management, particularly in areas like credit, market, and liquidity risk. However, risks in the investment portfolio should be minimized to ensure that liquidity and marketability are maintained. WATCH Investment accounting compliance risks U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The acquisition could have the effect of boosting PNC's presence in the southeast and west where the markets are growing quickly, according to WSJ. Big bank mergers have been scarce in the past decade since the financial crisis of the late 2000s, but despite that rarity, regional lenders have felt the crunch from bigger rivals like J.P.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has, as finews.asia reported this past week, amended its credit risk management guidelines in a way that seeks to boost the embrace of analytics when lending to smaller firms. Cash invested on the platform, said the company, stands at $2.7

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in recent years thanks to digital and mobile technology, along with online marketplace models. So-called peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has certainly faced challenges in certain markets. Despite lending £6.7

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

In a partnership formed recently with Puerto Rico’s Oriental Bank, Biz2Credit said late last month that it has begun offering its digital lending platform to the bank’s commercial clients. Drilling down a bit into the Puerto Rico market in particular, Arora noted some differences between small business lending versus, say, the United States.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 23, 2019

With the majority of the region's debt collection being handled by small, provincial agencies, the process in Southeast Asian markets is still mostly manual. Digital debt collector AsiaCollect is hoping to change that.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Robocash Group, a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform, aims to raise $5 million in the next half-year from investors in Europe who want to invest in Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore, according to reports. With the completed integration, Robo.cash users can invest in the region and its development. billion two years later.

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The company provides customers with trust system and identity solutions to aid in the areas of eCommerce and lending, particularly in terms of credibility. South Asia is the fastest-growing market in FinTech and eCommerce, according to Credify. The area is projected to be a $72 billion market for FinTech in 2020, at an CAGR of 72.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

The bank is one of several newly proposed community banks in the region, with goals of disrupting the financial services landscape, including business and corporate banking. is set to see its first new community bank in decades, as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) lent its approval for MOXY Bank to launch in Washington, D.C.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

operations to PNC Bank , creating the fifth-largest regional player in the U.S. No matter the size of the bank or the regional focus, there’s a general realization that disruption is on the horizon. Through the summer of this year, deal making was down 70 percent from a year earlier to 40 transactions. Gearing Up For Disruption.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

This week, Cellulant – an Africa-focused payments services firm – is announcing a big play to build the comprehensive “catch-all app” for consumers in the African market. It was the right step for its time – but times have changed, and the market within the continent has both broadened and diversified.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Regulation has undoubtedly acted as a catalyst to major financial services trends in areas like small business (SMB) lending, faster payments and, most recently, open banking and collaboration with FinTechs. In its Global Banking Outlook 2018 survey , EY assessed 221 financial institutions across 29 markets. Optimism Up.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Alternative lending was the golden child among investors around 2015, but lately, the industry seems to have fallen out of favor thanks to regulatory uncertainty and questions over the viability of some business models. Alternative Lending. This week alone saw two examples of those concerns in action: One U.S. lawmaker, Rep.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

Some are more exposed to credit card debt and lending to oil and gas companies. banks have stopped lending as much to European businesses as well, showing the home bias that is expected during a financial crisis. Many European banks have reduced lending to oil and gas companies, though. However, U.S. billion for the effort.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2018

It was supposed to be a strong year for lending across the board, after a stumpy 2017, which saw numbers in both consumer and commercial lending tending toward a slump. regional bank executives were gearing up for a bumper year, according to Bloomberg. Bancorp , the largest regional bank in the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

In its monthly Small Business Lending Index, released Tuesday (Sept. When you combine a strong economy, healthy retail demand and the willingness of small business owners to reinvest their savings from tax cuts, it creates a positive atmosphere for small business lending ,” said Rohit Arora, Biz2Credit CEO, in a statement.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

The country’s regulators have gotten tough on the shadow banking market in recent years. However, while regulators are happy to see shadow lending fade, the sector’s main borrowers — private companies — are feeling the strain. China’s $9.1 As a result, outstanding loans in the sector fell to ¥61.3 trillion ($9.1

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ABA Community Banking

OCTOBER 29, 2024

John Asbury didn't need a new job in 2016, but when he saw an opportunity build something lost in the 1990s, what he calls "the great Virginia regional bank," he took it. The post Podcast: Rebuilding ‘the great Virginia regional bank’ appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The four intended to start a new marketplace software product for the Latin America region. And the company plans to offer a wide diversity of financial services, with new lending services based on revenue added to the payment processing it already offers, according to reports.

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