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How Community Financial Institutions Can Regain the Small Business Lending Market

Abrigo

By leveraging their strengths in relationship lending and their access to technology in order to grow the small business loan portfolio profitably. CFIs are poised to regain the small business lending market Community Financial Institutions can leverage technology to improve customer experience and regain the small business lending market.

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GAO issues report on OCC fair lending oversight

CFPB Monitor

In response to a request from three Democratic House members, the GAO recently issued a report on its review of fair lending oversight conducted by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. These changes contributed to fewer annual fair lending examinations and deficiency findings leading to matters requiring attention at smaller banks.

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Personal Loans Are The Fastest-Growing Lending Category

PYMNTS

As a consumer lending category with the fastest growth, outstanding balances for personal loans jumped by about 18 percent to $120 billion in the first quarter. A lot of credit goes to the FinTech lenders for reinvigorating a loan category that’s been around forever,” Jason Laky, TransUnion ’s consumer-lending business lead, told Bloomberg.

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Get your ducks in a row: HVCRE risk management

Abrigo

In a recent Sageworks webinar Robert Ashbaugh, senior risk management consultant at Sageworks, discusses High Volatility Commercial Real Estate (HVCRE) lending best practices. Ashbaugh goes on to demonstrate that the default rates for these loans did not peak until about 2009, and the ALLL did not increase until 2010.

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UBS Eyes $400 Million Investment In India's Paytm

PYMNTS

Paytm was founded in 2010 as a top-up service for mobile phones, but it has since grown into one of India’s biggest payments apps, with services like money transfer and bill payment, along with merchant and personal loans, the report stated. “I based asset management firm T. Paytm wouldn’t be raising new funds as part of the deal.

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GAO Issues Report Finding that CFPB Needs to Assess the Impact of Recent Changes to its Fair Lending Activities

CFPB Monitor

Specifically, the report examines how the CFPB has (i) managed the reorganization of its Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity and related risks during 2018, (ii) monitored and reported on its fair lending performance, and (iii) used new HMDA data fields to analyze and support its fair lending activities.

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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

This all compares to about a 40%+ return invested in improving processes (loan, branch, cash management, etc.) Bank management should, of course, strive to increase cash flow as soon as possible. Now, with customers, and relationship managers switching banks at one of the highest rates, banks need to adapt to remain relevant.