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Inside Look: Kabbage automates small business lending

BankInovation

Automated lending fintech Kabbage is no stranger to disruption. Founded in 2009 in the wake of the Great Recession, the fintech’s lending solutions were one of the first to leverage automation and dynamic data analysis to improve efficiency in small business lending.

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Credit Card Charge-Offs Reach Highest Rate Since 2009

PYMNTS

Moody’s Investors Service reported Thursday (June 8) that credit card charge-offs — debts that are so delinquent that lending institutions have basically given up on collecting them — are at their highest rate since 2009 , possibly due to loosening lending standards. Synchrony Financial saw the highest charge-off rate at 5.4

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UK banks expect sharp rise in defaults on unsecured debt

TheGuardian

Lenders forecast biggest quarterly increase in missed repayments on credit cards and loans since 2009 Business live – latest updates Britain’s biggest high street lenders expect the sharpest rise in defaults on unsecured lending since 2009, according to a Bank of England survey , as households come under growing pressure amid the cost of living crisis. (..)

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Lending Club Appoints BlackRock Veteran As Chief Capital Officer

PYMNTS

Lending Club, which has been struggling to recover from loan errors and the departure of its Chief Executive (among other issues), has named Patrick Dunne, a veteran of BlackRock, as its new chief capital officer. Dunne is well known in financial circles and his appointment is seen as a boon to the beleaguered Lending Club.

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The pro-cyclicality of capital ratios and credit supply, a tale of two sizes

BankUnderground

First, analysing years up to 2009 can be used to measure the cyclical patterns in a less regulated environment, providing evidence on whether Basel III needed cyclical components. Second, expanding the analysis beyond 2009 provides evidence on whether Basel III addressed the pro-cyclicality of bank capital and lending.

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How Your Bank Can Make Construction Lending More Profitable

South State Correspondent

In fact, C&D loans were one of the major causes of bank failures from 2009 to 2011. While C&D loan volumes bolstered total loan growth, these same loans resulted in substantial detraction from risk-adjusted return on equity (ROE). Compared to their peak in 2007, current C&D loan portfolios are relatively small.

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Gone Fishing (For Deposits)

Jack Henry

As deposits reach their lowest levels since 2009 – when many younger bankers were still in college ‒ the mission to attract and grow deposits is a fairly new concept. They translate into lucrative lending opportunities as well as fee-based commercial solutions, like payments and financial management services.

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