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Should Congress Increase FDIC Insurance Limits?

South State Correspondent

private and public lending markets are the world’s envy, with a wide availability of financing options for many capital seekers across the entire capital stack. We believe any change to the FDIC insurance coverage should aim to maintain and advance our credit markets.

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Taking A Credit-First Approach To Alt Lending 

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However, Tavares said the landscape is shifting, as LendingPoint and other alternative credit products lend their ears — and their money — to underserved populations. Burnside got his start in small business lending. Already the market was generating $1 billion in personal loans each month. “It Back to Basics.

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Why Better Data Is The First Step In Curing The Startup Slump

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When the economy crashed in 2008, and fully bottomed out in June 2009 credit across the board froze. While other forms of credit were showing signs of returned in 2014, SMB lending still trailed its 2007 peak by 17 percent. The good news is that the bad news wasn’t worse news — the economy recovered, albeit unevenly and slowly.

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Sub-Prime Lending’s Late-Year Bounce

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In 2016, the market experienced a pullback as lenders slowed or stalled sub-prime originations,” Komos said. In some areas, the growth in sub-prime lending matches overall growth in the segment, with credit cards and personal loans as the best example. It shows the resiliency of the market.”. percent to 18.63 It never happened.

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What's With Regulator Agita Over Bank Commercial Real Estate Lending?

Jeff For Banks

Today, I read an American Banker article on how a multi-billion dollar bank is going to ramp up its business lending. To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending. They need a marketing person to title their reports.

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Let's retake the mortgage market!

Jeff For Banks

New rules aside, we were not that significant in the mortgage market anyway. So we opened the door, let the competition through, and we ceded the mortgage market to brokers, specialists, and the government. For example, volumes were down in my home state of Pennsylvania from 2009 through 2010, the latest year HMDA data is available.

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European Lender Twino First To Sell Russian Loans

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This marks the first time in history a peer-to-peer lending facilitator in Europe has listed Russian loans. Twino was founded in 2009 and currently sells loans from Georgia, Latvia, Denmark, Estonia and Poland. Low interest rates have been the norm in the global lending market for the past few years.

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