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Operation Choke Point 2.0

Jeff For Banks

In 2012 the Obama administration launched "Operation Choke Point" ("OCP") which was designed to ensure banks considered the risk of banking payday lenders that were engaged in abusive practices. The FDIC's quarterly Supervisory Insights for Summer 2011 had a list! Let bankers determine if lending to this industry or that is risky.

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Ag lending risk increasing as result of declining incomes

Abrigo

Although loan volumes have increased steadily since 2011, recent increases have coincided with a period of declining farm income,” said a recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. This growth continues the trend from the first quarter of 2015 , which saw an increase of eight percent year over year.

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Effective model risk management and model validation in banking

Abrigo

Takeaway 2 Even small banks or credit unions not regulated by the Federal Reserve are required to address control risks from models. As financial regulators have noted , this oversight is important because of the "possible adverse consequences (including financial loss) of decisions based on models that are incorrect or misused.”

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How to stress test your ag portfolio

Abrigo

Like other types of lending, banks must remain cautious to avoid too heavy of an agricultural concentration or too much lending within a certain ag segment. The challenge is that market conditions in this type of lending tend to be volatile. Without diversification, risks will be expounded.

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UK Challenger Bank Suffers Asset Finance Breach

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.” The bank said the charge relates to asset finance loans underwritten that did not meet Shawbrook’s lending criteria. In other words, the bank had been lending out what some reports described as “dodgy” loans. having launched in 2011 as the industry and regulators look to increase competition in the sector.

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Fast EMV, Mobile Starbucks And Under-Fire Payday Lending

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Visa is determined to make EMV faster, Starbucks wants to make getting that cuppa joe faster, too, and is crushing it with mobile order ahead and the CFPB might be moving closer to having a fast exodus of the payday lending business once its rules drop. Operating income increased 11 percent to $864 million. EMV’s Second Phase.

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Whatever Happened To…Kabbage

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“I think it was a real advantage to us to start during an economic downturn,” says Kathryn Petralia, a co-founder and Head of Operations at Kabbage. “It Kabbage is a data and technology platform that enables real-time lending. The goal of all that money is, of course, to lend to small business owners. which was added in 2013. “We