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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. If that trend continues, operating costs will begin outpacing revenue for many farms, and demand for ag financing will grow for community financial institutions. To download the whitepaper, click here. Challenges for small ag banks.

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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. But in January 2021, the new OCC announced it would pause the "Fair Access" rule that was intended to prevent another Operation Choke Point.

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Payday Lending Viewed From Inside A NY Courtroom

PYMNTS

The payday lending and debt collection industry is controversial, to say the least, and it is getting a day in court. As The Wall Street Journal reports, a racketeering trial that is currently taking place in New York may bring greater scrutiny to bear on how payday lenders operate. million people. million people.

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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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Ag lending risk increasing as result of declining incomes

Abrigo

The report noted that since 2012, crop cash receipts have declined by more than 20 percent, according to the USDA. In addition, the ratio of operating loans to farm income has risen, despite other non-real estate loan volumes, relative to farm income, leveling out.

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Can Data Driven Lending Displace VC Funding For Some Firms?

PYMNTS

CircleUp entered the market in 2012 as a data driven variation on venture capital (VC) funding to solve for part of that problem in retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms. CircleUp’s lending platform was founded in 2017 to fill that hole and has underwritten about $300 million in loans since then.

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FinTech Firms Show Banks The ‘Art Of The Possible’ In SMB Lending

PYMNTS

Yet, the small business lending gap remains. In a new report, PayNet and financial research firm Raddon examined the state of small business lending in the U.S. On the upside, researchers found small businesses’ demand for loans is at its highest level since 2012. For banks, the reason often comes down to profits.

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