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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. In the US, at its peak, the finance industry generated 40 per cent of corporate profits and represented 30 per cent of the market value of stocks.

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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. SME lender EZBob.

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Don't Bank. SoFi

Jeff For Banks

After its most recent capital raise in September, SoFi, a marketplace lender that focuses on millennials, has raised nearly $1.5 billion in equity capital since its founding in 2011. billion in equity capital, with a market capitalization close to book value. By comparison, over 100 year old and $7.7 We don't know.

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The powerful, but quiet marketing message of the Best Banks

Long Lasting Ideas

The title alone may beg the question: What in the world does employee happiness have to do with marketing a bank?’. If you don’t believe ebullient bankers translate to a blossoming bottom line, consider this: Live Oak is the nation’s second leading Small Business Administration Lender.

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The Federal Home Loan Bank System: Lender of Next-to-Last Resort

Jeff For Banks

Their conversation goes something like this: pretend that your non-core and wholesale funding dries up, and you are unable to attract local funds via rate promotion because of our restrictions on rates paid above the national rate cap. I recently wrote that I thought bankers would have to prepare to offer rates more in line with the market.

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Banking's Total Return Top 5

Jeff For Banks

capital appreciation and dividends. Access National Corporation New to the august list is Access National, whose mission is to provide credit, treasury management and private banking services to emerging businesses with revenues of up to $100 million. Focused mission, young management team, great markets. Well done! #3.

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Disruptive technology will not kill banks

Jeff For Banks

The branch is king, and if you don''t have one in a market, you will not succeed there. But wait, ING Direct grew to $92 billion in assets until ING Group divested it to Capital One. Lending Club funded $5 billion in loans since its founding in 2007. Was Vanguard a disruptor? Was ING Direct a disruptor? And Quicken Loans.