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Community FIs Battle Against Low Interest Rates To Help SMBs Thrive

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There is growing talk, too, of FIs pulling back from small business loans as they did in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. As such, a regionally focused financial institution could be best-positioned to address those fluctuating market needs. Surviving Low Interest Rates.

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Banking Innovation Enters New Era; Consolidation Now The Rule

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Clearly there's regional saturation, which leads to consolidation.”. Lukies said that prior to the 2008 financial crisis, regulators and the like normally left banks to their own devices, as long as they didn’t mess it up so that people couldn’t pay their bills or go shopping.

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Competition Heats Up Between Large FIs, Small Banks, Alt Lenders ? And SMBs Win

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Biz2Credit’s latest Small Business Lending Index found that loan approval rates at alternative lenders stagnated – and at credit unions, they actually fell. Thirty-four years have passed since SMB optimism was this high , according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). SMBs since the 2008 financial recession.

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Rethinking The SME Loan Underwriting Model In Southeast Asia

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Traditional banks will require credit histories and collateral to underwrite a small business loan, both of which many SMBs in Southeast Asian nations lack. In Southeast Asian markets, banks’ lack of adequate data on SMB loan applicants is perhaps the tallest barrier to connecting SMBs to capital in the region.

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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

The bank, First National Bank of Keystone, was $1.1 Another depressed town due to the general economic malaise that bedraggled the region when the steelmaking industry moved elsewhere. And so went the birth of First National Bank of Keystone's meteoric rise. Nationwide lending! Cherry died in 2008 while still in jail.

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One SME Lender’s Take On Regulation And Transparency

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Though small businesses have suffered from a gap in financing availability post-2008, the demographic continues to shape the financial markets. The company takes a more narrow focus to small business lending than some other FIs by targeting the western U.S. A Regional Reach. Bystry said that, when it comes to the western U.S.,

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Covid to Cost-of-Living: Assessing Affordability in Uncertain Times

FICO

The removal of the mortgage market affordability test in the UK could pose challenges at a time when affordability is an important lending issue. Last year saw the highest level of mortgage lending the UK has seen since before the global financial crisis. Affordability Assessments and Unrestrained Lending. by Matt Cox.

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