PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The PPP initiative was instrumental in helping small businesses navigate market volatility in the near term. We did more loans in a two-month period than we did in 10 years of SBA lending combined," he said. "We Historically, traditional business lending is based on historical financial performance," he said.

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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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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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PYMNTS

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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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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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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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In this article, we distill what we believe are the top four strategic competitive advantages for community banks to outperform the market. Instead, community banks that differentiate themselves from the competition are often able to outperform the market. Borrowers value certainty and a quick decision-making process.

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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

One of the lessons that was driven home at the recent American Banker Small Business Banking Conference in Nashville was the difference in marketing between large national banks and community banks, particularly deposit marketing. The data would indicate not marketing to a new customer is a mistake. There is a reason for this.

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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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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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PYMNTS

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 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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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Now that banks have filed their third quarter financial reports , what did the lending picture look like last quarter? However, Q3 commercial lending is down from the beginning of 2014 (quarter ending 3/31/2014) by about $67 billion. Specifically for businesses, are commercial loans on the rise? Nationally, the picture is a fine one.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Takeaway 2 Advisors recommend that financial institutions look behind some of the headlines and examine their own markets before ruling out CRE altogether. Critical capital Should CRE lending be off the table? But understanding trends in their own portfolios and local markets can allow lenders to identify risk-appropriate CRE credits.

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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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

New Jersey-based financial institution Investors Bank has announced a collaboration with online small business lending firm OnDeck to digitize its own small to medium-sized business (SMB) lending operations. The companies announced their collaboration in a press release Monday (Oct.

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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

JULY 28, 2017

the embattled bank, is reportedly overhauling its auto lending unit in an effort to control risk. According to a news report in Reuters , citing an internal memo, with the restructuring, Wells Fargo will phase out 57 regional offices in the U.S. and get rid of the regional manager positions in the impacted offices.

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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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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Mitigating market risk comes from proper customer selection, structuring the loan as to not acerbate a bank’s risk, pricing the relationship correctly taking into account cost and risk through the loan lifetime, actively managing that customer (monitoring credit, building deposit balances, increasing engagement, enhancing fee income, etc.)

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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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FICO

MARCH 22, 2022

The pandemic impacted the financial situation of SME’s in various ways, including the need to suddenly adopt digital banking channels, arrange repayment deferrals and of course an increased need for lending; a need which is increasingly being targeted by new lenders offering a simplified digital lending process.

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CB Insights

JULY 12, 2022

Consumer-facing finance company SoFi has traditionally been known for its lending services. The company went public in 2021, and now has a market cap of over $5B, even amid 2022’s widespread slump in tech stocks. <span js”></script> <script> hbspt.forms.create({. onFormReady: function ($form) {.

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PYMNTS

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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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2022

Global digital lending funding ticked down just 4% quarter-over-quarter — holding strong despite the broader downturn across the venture market. In our State of Digital Lending Q1’22 Report, we dig into global investment trends to spotlight takeaways including: The region that saw record deal activity.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 30, 2024

These FHLBs continued to lend to the member banks despite clear deterioration of their financial status. The FHLB was established in 1932 during the Great Depression as a way to prop up a problematic housing market. Finally, we may see a consolidation of the 11 regional FHLBs to increase efficiency. Abrigo is here to help.

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PYMNTS

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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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

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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PYMNTS

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 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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Celent Banking

MARCH 30, 2016

Last week, I participated in a Finextra webinar on the topic of “Connected Credit and Compliance for Lending Growth” with panelists from ING, Vertus Partners, Misys and Credits Vision. Cost of compliance. Changing client expectations. Competition from new entrants.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The local decision-making and strong relationships with customers that are hallmarks of small community banks provide leaders with fresh chances to positively affect their towns, cities, and regions while growing a healthy institution. Balance runoff is picking up speed, according to financial consulting firm Curinos. The result? The result?

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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

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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FICO

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

While market volume was down across the board in auto loan and bank card originations: Credit unions increased their market share by about 15% in auto loan origination. Credit unions increased their market share by nearly 6% in bankcard dollar origination. Pain points in prescreen marketing. said the long manual process.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

balance sheet to offer Danish companies lending tools, including venture debt, acquisition financing and loans tied to initial public offerings ( IPOs ). There is a huge amount of activity taking place in this market, with lots of inspiring businesses. Platts said that Silicon Valley Bank will use its U.S. network and U.K.

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