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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

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Critical capital Should CRE lending be off the table? Recent headlines may lead bankers to believe that shunning commercial real estate lending is the safest path to limit or avoid credit risk, given stresses on CRE and regulatory concerns. Certainly, one asset class, the regional mall, is quite dead,” Kirby said.

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Another Online Lender Announces Layoffs

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Consumer lending platform Avant is giving pink slips to 60 employees, or about 7 percent of its workforce. The news came late last week amid what Crain’s Chicago Business said is β€œan abrupt negative turn in investor sentiment toward consumer lenders of all stripes.”.

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Avant Brings SaaS Lending Tech To Banks

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Potential borrowers apply online or via mobile, can be approved and offered a rate within 15 minutes, and can have their loans funded within 24 hours. For banks, including relatively large banks, Goldstein noted, entering into personal lending markets is daunting, even if it is appealing from a variety of standpoints.

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The CFPB Sets Its Sights On Marketplace Lending

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and it is leaning toward bringing those online businesses under its supervision within the next year or so. 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.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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Researchers Aim To Answer Big Questions In AltFin

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The University of Chicago and the University of Cambridge are once again partnering to explore the alternative finance industry and offer guidance on its trajectory for the coming year. Will 2016 once again present an explosion in alt-lending transaction value? The debate continues to rage over the future of alternative lending.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

CB Insights

Through trial and error, the company has set up key financial pillars across payments, cash deposits, and lending. Today, Amazon Pay has evolved to include a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants. Table of Contents: Amazon’s product strategy. Closing thoughts.

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