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FinTech LendingClub Buys Radius Bank For $185M

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LendingClub provides personal lending online, and it wants access to funding that is more stable and not as expensive. The bank is one of a few smaller lenders that has teamed up with FinTechs who need services only an FDIC-regulated institution can provide. It had a huge initial public offering (IPO) in 2014, with an $8.5

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Republican Senators seek action from FDIC to ensure end of Operation Choke Point

CFPB Monitor

Thirteen Republican Senators have sent a letter to FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams urging the FDIC to take action to ensure that lawful businesses are no longer at risk of adverse financial consequences as a result of “Operation Choke Point, and its associated culture and Choke Point-like regulatory actions.”.

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U.S. Farming Has A Banking Problem

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percent: the growth rate of FDIC-insured bank loans to farm borrowers as of March 2019. percent, reports said, noting FDIC insured banks account for about half of all farm loans. Between December 2015 and March 2019, banks pulled back their farm lending by $3.9 That growth rate has been declining: In December 2015, it was 6.4

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Banking's Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: 2023 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Although one might argue that First Citizens BancShares of Raleigh is a SIFI as it climbed to the 19th largest in the country with its Silicon Valley Bridge Bank acquisition from the FDIC, and that the FDIC designated SVB as systemically important. It has not been all sunshine and rainbows for TBBK.

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Banks Push Back On Possible Banking Charters For Big Techs Like Amazon And Facebook

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The agency first proposed a special banking charter for FinTechs in 2014 that would limit pushback from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. FDIC), the states and the courts. That last measure aims to ensure that banks lend money and provide banking services to underserved and minority consumers.

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Reports of Small Business Lending’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated

Celent Banking

In the FinTech space, much of the focus is on consumer-oriented solutions like Mint for financial management, Venmo for P2P payments, and Prosper for social lending. Online small business lending by direct credit providers has especially taken off. Morgan Stanley reports that US small business direct lending grew to around $7.5B

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Community banks most likely to approve small business loans

Abrigo

Over the first half of 2014, these banks, with an approval rate of just under 60 percent, beat out large national banks (31 percent), large regional banks (45 percent) and online lenders (38 percent). While the approval rates are high and portfolios are expanding, the OCC did point out that lending standards continued to soften.