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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.”. Lending Club’s model does not need bank branches on each street corner, and it can turn around in minutes and hours, not days. I crossed paths with Laplanche back in 2007 and wanted to back him right away,” Petrushka said.

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Paul Moore obituary

TheGuardian

HBOS whistleblower who had warned against its unsustainable lending and the sale of financial products such as PPI In the years leading up to the economic crisis of 2007-08 few challenges were made to excessive and opportunistic financial activity and since then few individuals have been called to account for the damage it caused.

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Director Chopra promotes aggressive enforcement in remarks to National Association of State Attorneys General

CFPB Monitor

In his most noteworthy remarks, Director Chopra: Identified federal preemption as having played a major role in the 2007-2009 sub-prime mortgage crisis and suggested that the OCC had used preemption “to attack state consumer protection enforcement.”

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Mapping The Black Box: A Look Inside Machine Learning’s Powers And Quirks

PYMNTS

It’s a bold statement, considering that the lending space is still trying to articulate what, exactly, the financial inclusion problem is — and everyone else is still trying to figure out what, exactly, “machine learning” means and why it matters to them. First, many in the lending space may wonder, “What financial inclusion problem?”

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Real Estate: Love it or hate it?

Jeff For Banks

Economists and government officials continue to cite lack of lending activity as a key contributor to our economic malaise. Much of the standoff revolves around real estate secured lending. Regulators are slightly schizophrenic on the subject. What I suggest regulators consider is collateral alternatives.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

million gets the vaunted consumer lender a much-prized bank charter, low-cost deposits to juice current earnings, and a business lending capability to drive future growth. Rex Johnson, Baxter Credit Union founder and former CEO – Rex was a legend in the credit union industry who will always be remembered as the “Yoda” of lending.

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All Pain, No Gain

Independent Banker

The internationally adopted rules, aimed at responding to the deficiencies that led to the 2007 financial crisis, took effect Jan. Most concerning has been the safety-and-soundness regulation’s unnecessary effect on reducing certain lending by community banks, say Kendrick and several community bankers. Headwind for lending.