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Consumer Lending: Should Banks Do It?

Jeff For Banks

When I first read Standards Needed for Safe, Small Installment Loans from Banks, Credit Unions by the Pew Charitable Trusts that encouraged financial institutions to get back into small ticket consumer lending, I thought “what are they nuts!” Ever since we formed our company in 2001, this has been the case. Real estate secured.

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Facebook Faces Billions In Possible GDPR Fines

PYMNTS

The amount was disclosed in the Annual Work Program, which had been devised by the European Securities and Market authority at the end of last month. community banks and small business lending. Government Accountability Office has said that there has been growth in small business lending, as measured across 2001 to 2017. .

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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. The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. High-tech employment fell from 12.1 Good times.

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B2B FinTechs Diversify Funding Strategies With M&A, IPOs

PYMNTS

Funding Xchange secured $10.3 million as it prepares to launch its lending-in-a-box offering, according to Asset Finance International. Bancorp in 2001 in a $2.1 Reports said the company will trade under the ticker BILL with Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Securities and Jefferies Group underwriting the IPO.

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

Fintech Labs Insights

I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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CFPB Cracks Down On Deceptive Lender Who Targeted 9/11 First Responders

PYMNTS

11, 2001 World Trade Center attack who were entitled to payments from the Victim Compensation Fund as part of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. The CFPB alleges that the company lied about the cost of the loans in the long run, among other things.

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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

By the 1990’s, improvements in technology and further changes to securities regulations made it easier for corporate customers to access financial markets directly. Adding to the observation is the fact that from roughly 2001-2006, a devastating housing price bubble formed due to lax lending standards.

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