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Personal Loans Are The Fastest-Growing Lending Category

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As a consumer lending category with the fastest growth, outstanding balances for personal loans jumped by about 18 percent to $120 billion in the first quarter. A lot of credit goes to the FinTech lenders for reinvigorating a loan category that’s been around forever,” Jason Laky, TransUnion ’s consumer-lending business lead, told Bloomberg.

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Consumer Credit Update for 2Q 2023

South State Correspondent

Home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) and bank card usage are up 24% and 17%, respectively. These are cash flow management tools that send a signal of future problems. Banks are currently reducing indirect auto financing growth and are managed by greater holdback and fewer exceptions. Unsecured personal loan usage is up 21%.

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UK Mortgages, Credit Demand To Decline Pre-Brexit

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British lenders say that leading up to Brexit, they expect the largest drop in demand for credit cards and mortgages than they’ve seen in many years, according to a survey by the Bank of England. That’s the lowest it’s been since 2010. For credit card lending, demand over the next three months declined to -20.7

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Today In Digital-First Banking: ClearBank Unveils Multicurrency Accounts; LoanDepot Eyes IPO

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LoanDepot, which was started in 2010, refers to itself as the country’s second-biggest nonbank lender. The service allows qualifying American merchants to get funds for card transactions in real time, with actual availability depending on the location and the receiving financial institution.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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By using funds managed by LCA to benefit its parent company, LCA and Laplanche failed to do so.”. Last week’s announcements capped off two years of investigation into the P2P lending firm, and its board has expressed some relief that it seems to be time to turn the page on the events of 2016. The DOJ Finding. Attorney Alex Tse. “We

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Reports of Small Business Lending’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated

Celent Banking

In the US, small business customers get bounced around like Goldilocks—they are too small to be of interest to commercial relationship managers and too complex to be easily understood by retail branch staff. Online small business lending by direct credit providers has especially taken off. of all firms.

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Why Senior Debt Has Spent Two Decades Spiking

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credit card debt hit an all-time high of $930 billion, higher than the previous peak hit just ahead of the financial crisis of 2008. Much of the attention out of that report went toward the uptick in delinquencies that has followed up with the increase in card debt. About two weeks ago, U.S.

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