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What #Banking Trend Will Have the Greatest Impact on Your Bank?

Jeff For Banks

The Fed has paused for nearly a year now, and it was our experience in 2006-07 that bank cost of funds continued to increase as the market closed the delta between what someone could earn in a money market mutual fund and a bank account. Such as direct lending funds, and insurance companies. Cost of funds is leveling off now.

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

PYMNTS

Before this year, the last time that happened was in 2006, when Walmart made a move on an ILC. Square already has an SMB lending arm – Square Capital – which it operates through a deal with Utah-based Celtic Bank. That lending operation has been fairly successful for Square, and has lent out over $1.8

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Growing a new branch

Independent Banker

Providence Bank chose to open a new brick-and-mortar site during the pandemic, when many other businesses were ceasing operations or shutting down altogether. In the first round of PPP lending, it granted 220 loans totaling $17 million, and in the second round, 170 loans totaling nearly $13 million. “As By Ed Avis.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

PYMNTS

The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. Attorney Alex Tse. “We The Response. The Rundown on the Run-up to the Decisions.

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FinTech’s Bright Future Marred by Hype

PYMNTS

A few days later, one of the founding fathers of FinTech, Renaud Laplanche , was forced out of Lending Club, the peer-to-peer lender he founded in 2006, following scandals over loan disclosures and conflicts of interest. The really interesting, though less juicy, story is what got Lending Club into trouble.

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Addressing The Symptoms Of Pharmacies’ Cash Flow Ailments

PYMNTS

Mordis pointed to CVS’s acquisition of pharmacy benefits manager Caremark in 2006, while just last month CVS received approval from the U.S. Department of Justice to move forward with a $69 billion acquisition of Aetna, combining its insurance operations with CVS’ pharmacy businesses.

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Lending Club Reports Growth in Revenues, Originations for Q2 2015

Fintech Labs Insights

Lending Club provided investors with plenty to think about in its Q2 2015 earnings conference call this week. Here are a few of the highlights from a second quarter that saw Lending Club reach $11.2 Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, LendingClub demonstrated its platform at the first Finovate in 2007.

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