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How to Mitigate Ag Lending Risks

Abrigo

Today, most of farmers’ cash reserves that were built up in 2012-2014 are at, or nearing, depletion. Assigning credit risk is tricky with ag lending since both environment and economic factors carry significant weight. Common items used in save strategies include: Loan-to-value (LTV) – collateral-based lending. Pay strategies.

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SEC Probe Prompts Direct Lending CEO To Step Down

PYMNTS

Direct Lending Investments ’ founder and CEO Brendan Ross has resigned while his company is the focus of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As a result, Direct Lending suspended withdrawals at that time. It filed for bankruptcy March 11, still owing Direct Lending $191.3

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FTC Calls For Tighter Small Biz Lending Scrutiny

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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is eyeing tighter scrutiny of small business lending practices as Commissioner Rohit Chopra calls on the regulator to combat predatory SMB loan contracts, reports in Bloomberg said on Wednesday (May 8). Chopra spoke at an agency forum in Washington, D.C., Chopra spoke at an agency forum in Washington, D.C.,

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China’s P2P Lending Market Expected To Shrink In 2019

PYMNTS

The P2P lending market in China has been rife with scams and controversy for some time now. Bloomberg, citing people with knowledge of the matter, noted that Chinese authorities are gearing up to shut down small and medium-sized P2P lending platforms across the country. trillion yuan by the end of 2017, reported Bloomberg.

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Why Community Bank Lending May Face Less Competition In The Future

South State Correspondent

Started in 2012, put forth in concept in 2014 and now proposed in detail last week, the rule, should it stand, makes it largely uneconomical to securitize all sorts of lending assets. Last week we saw the release of the details of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) rule on Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB).

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Banks Keep SMB Lending Gains Rolling

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In its monthly Small Business Lending Index, released Tuesday (Sept. When you combine a strong economy, healthy retail demand and the willingness of small business owners to reinvest their savings from tax cuts, it creates a positive atmosphere for small business lending ,” said Rohit Arora, Biz2Credit CEO, in a statement.

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China Fiscal Policy At Odds With SMB Lending

PYMNTS

29) that the government’s efforts to spur small business lending by pumping money into the financial services market has yielded only modest success. The publication pointed to the government’s conflicting policy of stricter lending rules as one reason why efforts to boost small business loan volumes hasn’t taken off.

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