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Should Congress Increase FDIC Insurance Limits?

South State Correspondent

private and public lending markets are the world’s envy, with a wide availability of financing options for many capital seekers across the entire capital stack. The proper function of a free-market economy is to allow outperforming managers to succeed in their businesses and underperforming managers to exit their businesses.

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Credit Restrictions Make Real Estate Buys Stall

PYMNTS

As reported in the Wall Street Journal , the housing lending market has become a bifurcated one, with credit costs low in a phenomenally low interest rate environment. But banks are tightening the reins on risks they will take, which translates into lending reticence. If the American dream is buying real estate, the U.S.

St. Louis 100
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IdentityMind Global Appoints Business-Tech Vet To Board

PYMNTS

“IdentityMind Global has a unique approach to bringing integrity back to digital marketplaces and the online lending environment through the use of trusted digital identities” Zander said in a company news release. Before that, he served as president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems until June 2002.

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

Fintech Labs Insights

Innovations from 1995 to 2014 (with launch dates) Note: Ranking as of Jan 2014 Wells Fargo is first in the world to offer Web-statement access (launched May 1995) Security First Network Bank launches first full-service Internet bank brand (Oct 1995, disbanded 2002) PayPal launches first online optimized payment system (Nov 1999, bought by eBay in 2003) (..)

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. To you, manage your interest rate risk. By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. Who would’ve thought lending $1 million to a San Francisco cab driver to buy a house at 100% loan to value would go bad?

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Decision Platform Know-How Makes Winning Customers Personal

FICO

A similar number (30%), will also turn to AI-assisted next best action programmes across all channels, driving even greater demand for ever-more complex customer management and customer service solutions delivered via decision platforms. Agility always poses challenges when it comes to delivering value, managing and measuring success.

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The Niche Bank

Jeff For Banks

Me to a community banker: Why don't you offer more options than real estate secured lending to help fund early stage businesses? What I hear most often is that community banks take deposits from people and businesses in their community and lend it to people and businesses in that same community. So we were both castaways. Seems risky.