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Commercial Credit Trends – Where to Tread Carefully

South State Correspondent

Lending is getting riskier. This data is critical for pricing, capital allocation, and marketing. For the first time since 2007, we are starting to see material signs of stress in the form of lower cash flows and less debt service coverage. Minnesota, North Dakota, and Iowa were the least risky states to lend into.

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

PYMNTS

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Necessity is the mother of invention.

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Lending Club’s Terrible Twos

PYMNTS

Two years ago today, Lending Club was ringing the bell on an IPO that one early investor called “a no-brainer.”. The consumer credit market has huge potential — trillions and trillions of dollars — and I wanted to ride that winner. I crossed paths with Laplanche back in 2007 and wanted to back him right away,” Petrushka said.

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The European banking system is flat-lining

Chris Skinner

By 2007, bank assets in many developed countries had reached in excess of 100 per cent of gross domestic product (“GDP”). In 2007, bank assets in the US were around 78 per cent of GDP. The banks feed domestic credit, financing asset purchases, investment and consumption as well as cross border lending.

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Anticipation For Amazon’s SMB Lending Disruption Grows

PYMNTS

It was the (initially) small FinTech startups that delivered a collective shakeup to the small business (SMB) lending industry. Technology giants like Google and Amazon , which gained their market muscle from non-finance-related ventures, are slowly stepping into the space. When I look at it from a U.S.

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Investors Balk At Talk Of Alt-SME Lending Collapse

PYMNTS

The alternative small business lending market took home the biggest slice of cake this week with about $33.5 million worth of venture capital across two deals. But it was the big names from Google, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard that made for the week’s largest enterprise-focused venture capital round. SME Finance. and Europe.

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A fistful of dollars: transmission of global funding shocks to emerging markets

BankUnderground

Emerging markets (EMs) have become more exposed to the global financial cycle in recent years. Negative liquidity shocks on the other hand constitute a tightening of financial conditions, reducing lending and real investment ( Bruno and Shin (2015) and Avdjiev et al (2018) ). Aakriti Mathur and Shekhar Hari Kumar.