Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The European Central Bank is planning to ask banks within the euro zone to up the amount of cash on hand to cover non-performing loans, a move meant to help bolster lending in the region. The proposal, which was released for public consideration yesterday, would give banks two years beginning on January 1st, 2018, to […].

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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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TheGuardian

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A new report by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (Apra) found climate change could make banks more vulnerable to economic downturns as they face up to a threefold increase in lending losses by 2050, but that the system should be able to absorb the impact.

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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. According to the results, banks argue that innovation, not just regulation, is behind the wheel of progress. Optimism Up.

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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. More Focus on P2P Lending.

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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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DECEMBER 20, 2017

Wells Fargo has announced that Mary Mack will lead its consumer lending unit. She replaces Franklin Codel , who was fired in November for critical comments he made about regulators to a former employee. According to The Wall Street Journal , this new role will be in addition to Mack’s current role overseeing the retail bank.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2016

The company takes a more narrow focus to small business lending than some other FIs by targeting the western U.S. in particular, a cross-section of states that CEO Douglas Bystry says has its own unique demands and impacts on regional economies. A Regional Reach. Bystry said that, when it comes to the western 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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The impact of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) continues to take shape roughly five months after taking effect, and Facebook could be on the hook for billions of dollars in fines tied to a data breach of about 50 million user accounts. Crypto Regulations.

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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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Chris Skinner

MAY 10, 2017

By taking proactive steps, Hong Kong could become the leading FinTech centre within the region and one of the leading centres in the world. Many FinTechs are providing financial services directly to customers in areas such as payments and P2P (peer-to-peer) lending. Mainland China is already the global FinTech leader in terms of scale.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

China’s community banks are raising new fears over the health of the industry after auditor Ernst & Young resigned from its work with regional bank Bank of Jinzhou. Last month, the government took control of a struggling regional bank, Baoshang Bank, marking the first such event in more than two decades.

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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

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

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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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2016

The new idea being floated involves classifying marketplace lenders, who operate online and also offer smaller loans with set payments, as installment lenders that are under the CFPB’s jurisdiction and regulations. The CFPB has been pursuing this quietly for some time.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

This week’s look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaborations and open banking initiatives finds a focus on small business lending: In the U.K., This week’s look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaborations and open banking initiatives finds a focus on small business lending: In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2020

“Every bank is under the cosh of its national regulators, who in times of crisis show a huge home bias,” said Jan Pieter Krahnen, director of the Center for Financial Studies at the University of Frankfurt, according to FT. This heavily influences risk management and regional exposure, which comes at the expense of clients abroad.”.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2023

In the wake of regional bank failures, one potential answer to equity shorting and bank runs is having the FDIC increase deposit insurance. The regulators are considering three options: raising the limit above $250k, raising the cap for only certain accounts (such as banks’ business accounts), or eliminating the cap entirely.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Andy Rowe is Enterprise Customer Excellence executive, and Elli Dai has been hired as Small Business and Personal Lending Group executive. In his new role, Kowach is responsible for Regional Banking, Distribution Strategies, Customer and Branch Experience, and Regional Services.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) – an informal agreement between an institution and the FDIC, which is signed by both parties (usually designated individual(s) in the Regional Office of the FDIC). BSA Rules and Regulation. CECL Regulation. Lending & Credit Risk. Lending Regulation. CECL Regulation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

China’s Ant Group is mulling the creation of a new consumer loan unit that would allow it to continue making loans throughout the country while complying with new Chinese banking regulations. Ant currently has two lending units that handle consumer loans, Huabei and Jiebei. China TransInfo Technology Corp. On Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Soon after Lending Club revealed its ex-CEO may have artificially inflated the company’s lending volumes, the U.S. Treasury Department released its report on the sector and concluded that the market would likely benefit from greater oversight from regulators. Alternative Lending. Lendingkart.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Clearly there's regional saturation, which leads to consolidation.”. Lukies said that prior to the 2008 financial crisis, regulators and the like normally left banks to their own devices, as long as they didn’t mess it up so that people couldn’t pay their bills or go shopping. Banks Let Themselves Get Left Behind.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

With the investment, MatchMove, which is also based in Singapore, will be able to extend its “banking-as-a-service” wallet capability to Shopmatic’s ecosystem spanning over 435,000 eCommerce small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and individual entrepreneurs across the region.

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Abrigo

APRIL 21, 2023

Focus loan reviews on risk in the portfolio Continuous loan review monitoring helps banks and credit unions ensure credit review systems support safe and sound lending. discussed how they use continuous monitoring in their efforts to ensure safe and sound lending practices.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

In China, the battle of the regulators versus FinTech behemoth has seemingly been joined. . That delay came following controlling shareholder Jack Ma’s meeting with Chinese regulators. The regional bank manager is apt to rely on the calculations and computations of Ant above all else. . Tall Tree’ Worth a Second Look? .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

With a permissioned blockchain network , services can be shared between credit unions, which could improve identification authentication and compliance surrounding regulations, know your customer, lending and payments. Under the plan, credit union members would be able to access the CULedger via a digital credential dubbed MyCUID.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

While the industry has expanded quickly to a large and complex scale over the years, regulatory directions keep changing and different regions have different rules.”. However, though the company expanded quickly in 2017 and 2018, Beijing’s crackdown on certain lending practices forced Dianrong to decline in the second half of 2018.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Other recent API developments aim to offer professionals an efficient way to process payments and remain compliant with local regulations. In Europe, for instance, the region is preparing for the rollout of a new directive which could challenge how medical providers process invoices. APIs invite innovative changes to banking.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

When it comes to a country such as the UAE, demographics can play a role on that — some 80 percent of the population is made up of expats, and they don’t always have the best luck in navigating the local financial, banking and regulation landscape. The new venture, E20, is geared toward entrepreneurs and SMBs.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 6, 2016

Whether it is equity or debt platforms, the trend is very much alive with regional variations and adapting regulations. Crowdfunding is real.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

central bank, is getting a bit worried about sharing some of the financial infrastructure with tech upstarts such as OnDeck Capital and Kabbage , a sense of caution that the newswire said puts the bank “at odds with other regulators looking to bring [those firms] into the fold.”. Reuters reported early Monday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms have shuttered in China’s Hebei province as regulators aim to get rid of deception and inefficiency in the sector, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Friday (Dec. By the end of October , Shanghai regulators ordered more than 40 P2P lenders to get ready to close.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

But, of course, no two consumers are exactly alike – especially when comparing consumers across different regions of the world. But perhaps one of the most surprising findings was the usage of P2P payments and P2P lending. On the P2P lending side, those numbers were even less favorable. In the U.K., In the U.K.,

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Abrigo

AUGUST 30, 2024

The FHLB system reform is precipitated primarily by its regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which is performing a deep dive into all aspects of the FHLB in the wake of some disturbing actions , specifically with four of the five failed banks just weeks or days before failure. Abrigo is here to help.

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