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How To Do Better Against National Bank Lending Competition

South State Correspondent

Who the competition is, what the lending competition is offering, their delivery channels, and service levels can help community banks differentiate their services and enhance their competitive advantage. Many existing community bank customers and prospects are also national bank customers.

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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

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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Retail Crisis In U.S., U.K. A Fizzle For 2020?

PYMNTS

Looking past the cheerful numbers tied to holiday shopping and the tens of billions of dollars spent on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and into Christmas, the decline of retail, at least the traditional retail model, continues into the new year, and across oceans. The retail sector is among the largest employers in the U.K.,

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Today In Data: Holiday Weekend Sales And SMB Lending

PYMNTS

3 billion | Amount that Amazon Lending has lent to SMBs since the program’s launch in 2011, with borrowers primarily from the U.S., 60 percent | Portion of Singapore’s national spend done through payment cards. Here are the numbers: $7.9 billion | Estimated consumer spending between Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales.

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China’s P2P Crackdown Nets 62 Arrests, $1.5B Seized

PYMNTS

China’s Operation Fox Hunt has led to the arrest of 62 Chinese nationals abroad and the seizure of 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) in assets from 380 fraudulent peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms, according to a Reuters report. The charges stem from illegally using P2P platforms to gather funds. trillion yuan ($217.96

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China Uses Monetary Policy To Cure China’s Economic, Viral Ills

PYMNTS

Though incremental and relatively small in scale, the PBOC moves indicate that commercial lending requires at least some support to keep the economy growing, even at a dramatically reduced rate, amid an outbreak that has seen more than 64,000 individuals infected worldwide. According to Zhou Guannan, an analyst at Huachuang Securities Co.,

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iPhone Financing? Regionals Get Creative with Consumer Lending

American Banker

They are creating new business lines, teaming with established retailers, even partnering with alternative lenders in an effort to diversify and generate new streams of revenue. Frustrated by low yields on commercial and real estate loans, banks are finding innovative ways to beef up their consumer loan books.