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FTC Calls For Tighter Small Biz Lending Scrutiny

PYMNTS

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.,

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China’s P2P Lending Market Expected To Shrink In 2019

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The P2P lending market in China has been rife with scams and controversy for some time now. The lack of regulation led to the country’s biggest Ponzi scheme, protests across cities in China and losses for thousands of people. trillion yuan by the end of 2017, reported Bloomberg.

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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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The current landscape for MBL regulation

Abrigo

He showcased several statistics, including that, while the number of credit unions in the United States has declined since 2012, the number of credit union members in the U.S. Loans fully secured by a 1-4 family residential property that is the member’s primary residence are considered neither MBL or commercial loans by regulators.

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Ant IPO Stopped By President Xi As Rebuke To Gov't Criticism

PYMNTS

He used this as a springboard to critique what he perceived as too much regulation from the government. Xi then reportedly ordered Chinese regulators to investigate and "all but shut down" the IPO. 24, Ma quoted Xi in a speech, saying "Success does not have to come from me," WSJ reported. That led to the IPO being suspended on Nov.

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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. By stress testing , banks have the opportunity to adjust lending standards, capital levels or concentration percentages, among others, based on the results.

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Bank of Dave review – underdog story of an everyman v Eton poshos

TheGuardian

As originally showcased in a 2012 Channel 4 series, it is the true story of how self-made Burnley businessman Dave Fishwick took on London’s elite banking institutions to get a licence to open his own bank serving the local community. Continue reading.

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