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CashCall, Courts And California’s Increasingly Confusing Lending Market

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Headquartered in Orange County, California and founded in 2003, CashCall is a big firm that consumers likely know best from its early commercials featuring the late Gary Coleman. All that to say this has been an especially tough week for CashCall, and possibly the entire installment lending industry in the state.

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Adapting lending policies in a ‘negative-for-long’ scenario

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In a recent paper we explore the effect on bank lending by combining data on exposure to negative rates with banks’ balance sheets, the Spanish credit register and firms’ balance sheets. This effect was especially strong for undercapitalised banks and lending to risky firms. Why might negative rates work differently?

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: The Ant Financial IPO?

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As is well known by now, Ant Financial , the Chinese micro-lending Internet player, has raised a whopping $4.5 The funding is a striking portrait of demand by investors with dry powder to gain entry into a nascent, technology driven market. But there are such things as natural market forces, and price discovery that comes in tandem.

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Addressing The Symptoms Of Pharmacies’ Cash Flow Ailments

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More so than the average SMB, independent pharmacies are particularly affected by the state of the healthcare market and its regulatory shifts. While all small businesses may struggle with cash flow, certain market forces in the pharmaceuticals and healthcare space make owning a small pharmacy a challenging endeavor.

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The Final CFPB Prepaid Card Rule Is Here (Expect Controversy)

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The use of prepaid cards has exploded over the last decade or so — in 2003 consumers put less than $1 billion on prepaid cards annually, but by 2012 that figure had grown to $65 billion and by 2018 that figure is projected to reach as much as $121 billion. The user base of prepaid cards has grown significantly as well.

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Fighting digital banking fraud – Part 1: Know the threat

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million people over the past year, marking a record high since Javelin began tracking identity fraud in 2003. billion in assets are at risk from mobile malware, which has already “created chaos” in China and India and could soon become more pervasive in western markets. Javelin has estimated that 7.7

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Springboard to Excellence

Independent Banker

imberly Anderson, senior vice president and chief administrative officer of Cañon National Bank in southern Colorado, became her community bank’s loan compliance officer in 2003. It teaches bankers how to develop a compliance program, meet lending compliance requirements, and comply with deposit and marketing regulations.