Chris Skinner

JUNE 10, 2016

Things we’re reading today include … Two charged in cyberfraud against JPMorgan, others plead not guilty Lending Club website goes down, cites data center outage US investment banks conquer Europe Four tips to beat the cybercriminals Heavy cost of UK’s access to the single market in Europe George Soros warns Britain leaving could be end (..)

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 24, 2016

Things we’re reading today include … China’s Best Bank Called ‘Mirage’ of Shadow Lending Financial markets rattled by Bank’s Brexit Bazooka Banks are forgetting their social function Blockchain Is Banks’ Secret Sauce Lloyds boss Antonio Horta-Osorio to express ‘deep regret’ to staff following affair (..)

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Chris Skinner

MAY 24, 2016

Things we’re reading today include … Google offices raided in Paris as prosecutors announce fraud probe Government considers seven-day switching service for mortgages Challenger banks accuse watchdog of naivety over big four dominance Clydesdale Bank targets young, cool customers, as Nationwide goes for the old and rich Market place lending: (..)

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Goldman Sachs might be reining in its online lending platform due to concerns about the stage of the credit cycle and changes in market data. Initially, Marcus will start by providing easy access, online-only savings accounts, with lending products slated to be available at the earliest in 2019.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

30) said a lack of regulation in the online SMB lending arena is raising concerns over sky-high fees and interest rates, sparking a bigger conversation about expanding borrower protections beyond consumers. Top players in the industry, including PayPal and Amazon , have promoted borrower trust in the online lending business model for SMBs.

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Abrigo

APRIL 24, 2023

Construction loans grow, delinquencies flatten in 2023 Construction lending projections look positive according to S&P data from 2022 and 2023. WATCH Takeaway 1 An S&P Global Market Intelligence report shows delinquencies leveling off and loans growing in the construction sector. billion in the previous quarter and $2.80

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Nonbank lending – also known as “ shadow banking ” – has seen its assets hit $52 trillion, despite the fact that the sector poses significant risks. percent from the end of 2017 and hitting their lowest level since 2016. Such outflows might spill over into other funds and the markets more broadly.”. trillion ($9.1

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Cryptocurrency-backed lending platform Cred is opening up its technology to third-party developers, the company has announced. The Crypto-Lending-as-a-Service (CLaaS) solution enables other crypto companies — including exchanges, crypto wallets or mining services — to integrate Cred’s lending functionality into their own solutions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

One area of impact is small business finance and lending, with small businesses and lenders seeing a slowdown in demand. Small business lending platform Funding Circle commented on this effect in its latest earnings data, noting that there has been “some deterioration” in its higher-risk small business loan bands in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2019

lending division in recent months, with a focus on its agriculture and energy teams, Reuters reported. The company’s agricultural lending division, which gives loans to farmers, was cut by at least 25 percent, while the bank also laid off about 7 percent of the staff from its energy lending group over the summer. billion, or 15.3

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 11, 2016

Investors see a sunny future for marketplace lending, according to a survey released today by Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP (RKO) and Wharton Fintech. The results of the survey, titled 2016 Survey of U.S. Marketplace Lending, show that half of investors surveyed have capital allocated for marketplace lending.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

An alternative lending conglomerate based in the U.K. The firm is the holding company for an array of FinTech companies operating in supply chain finance, invoice finance and the dynamic discounting market. just secured more than $97 million through an initial public offering. reports noted.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

eBay’s entrance into small business lending follows the company’s recent push into B2B services. In 2016, eBay launched its B2B platform, Business Supply , though it has mostly continued to focus on its B2C commerce operations. Amazon rolled out small business lending services in several markets in 2015.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

The Financial Stability Board says Basel III rules have not led to a squeeze of the small business bank lending market, according to reports on Friday (June 7). The FSB announced Friday the findings of its analysis of Basel III regulations on the small business lending space.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Offering digital lending isn’t about the bells and whistles. started developing its digital lending platform about three years ago—and the bank is really glad it did. “I’m Community bankers are increasingly recognizing that the future of digital lending is here. Illustration by Out of the box/Stocksy. By Beth Mattson-Teig.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

As Amazon presses further into China to compete with rivals like Alibaba , a job posting on the Amazon website may have just revealed plans for the eCommerce conglomerate to extend its small business lending program into the country. Amazon first began lending to small businesses in 2015, beginning with the U.S., Japan and U.K.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

With an ambitious play into a booming financial services space that presents challenges that include fierce competition, China’s Xiaomi is reportedly gearing up to roll out a consumer lending business in India. India is said to be the biggest market for the company outside of China. For Q2, the company’s FinTech revenues increased 62.7

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

watchdog in charge of investor oversight proposed tough new regulations regarding peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms, in a bid to help consumers wade through the new landscape, according to a report by Reuters. The proposed rule changes come in the wake of a 2016 study of regulations that govern the sector, which dates back to 2014.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Goldman Sachs might be reining in its online lending platform due to concerns about the stage of the credit cycle and changes in market data. Initially, Marcus will start by providing easy access, online-only savings accounts, with lending products slated to be available at the earliest in 2019.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

The country’s regulators have gotten tough on the shadow banking market in recent years. percent from the end of 2017 and hitting its lowest level since 2016. However, while regulators are happy to see shadow lending fade, the sector’s main borrowers — private companies — are feeling the strain. China’s $9.1

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2016

While some say it’s looking up to be a solid year with consumer confidence up and Americans optimistic about their future credit journey , others see concern as the 2016 year comes to a close. percent over the past three months of the year, while the Federal Reserve says 2016 will have a total of 1.9 percent growth and 2.1

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 29, 2016

Things we’re reading today include: Turbulent markets hit Deutsche Bank profits Barclays is in need of more of a strategy Lloyds Banking Group reveals surge in buy-to-let lending RBS reports £968m quarterly loss Barclays writes to PPI customers to apologise for failing to send statements Barclays offers PPI refunds to 10,000 RBS admits further (..)

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Necessity is the mother of invention.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Prosper, the P2P lending marketplace, is reportedly closing down the secondary market for its loans later this month. The company doesn’t operate the secondary market itself but outsources to FOLIOfn, which is operated and maintained by FOLIOfn Investments, which is a registered broker dealer.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Two years ago today, Lending Club was ringing the bell on an IPO that one early investor called “a no-brainer.”. The consumer credit market has huge potential — trillions and trillions of dollars — and I wanted to ride that winner. And disrupt Lending Club did, with its marketplace lending model, scores of imitators in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Amazon is partnering with Bank of America Merrill Lynch to expand its lending program for small businesses. Amazon Lending is an invitation-only program that offers loans of $1,000 to $750,000, with terms of up to a year, for companies that might have issues getting traditional business loans.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Just days after the Federal Reserve released a report highlighting the changing role of small business loans at community banks, the latest Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index published, suggesting small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending at small banks remains strong. percent in 2016 compared to the year before.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

Wells Fargo might give its shrinking student lending business a boost by focusing on borrowers with U.S. The lender would offer loans to allow customers to retire their government-backed student debt, said Well Fargo’s Head of Personal Lending John Rasmussen, according to Bloomberg. In 2016, Wells Fargo agreed to pay $3.6

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Avant’s consumer-facing product is devised as a digital alternative to that market. We’re also a pure-play technology company, designed to support banks [that] want to offer lending products, but … either can’t or won’t dedicate hundreds of millions to building the capacity,” he said. A Better Option For Banks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Lending Club has had a tough year. In early May, news broke that Lending Club had played fast and loose with its documents and disclosures, including the fact that then-CEO Renaud Laplanche had failed to disclose a personal stake in a firm Lending Club had an investment relationship with. The revelations were shocking.

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BankUnderground

JULY 20, 2022

In a recent paper we explore the effect on bank lending by combining data on exposure to negative rates with banks’ balance sheets, the Spanish credit register and firms’ balance sheets. This effect was especially strong for undercapitalised banks and lending to risky firms. Why might negative rates work differently?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Small business (SMB) lending is big business for community banks , which are a popular destination for small business borrowers, thanks to strong approval rates on loan applications. But new analysis from the Federal Reserve has identified a reversal in community banks’ position in the small business lending market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The Federal Trade Commission had a busy year in 2016, surveying consumers about buying and financing car purchases, issuing a report aimed at helping businesses harness the power of Big Data without discriminating and also taking a hard look at the FinTech market and its implications for consumers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

Interest rates plummeted as the Fed held the federal funds rate at zero in the hopes of stimulating lending in an environment where credit went from dangerously free-flowing to dangerously non-existent in the span of a few months. People are buying houses such that there is now a supply shortage in the market. economy.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

And generally speaking, central banks seek to boost bank lending if they see, or foresee, a bit of clogged system in hand, where capital flows are needed to sustain economic growth, to keep companies healthy, so that they in turn can continue to keep workers on payroll. Growth rates for the economy, the ECB said, are likely to be an anemic 1.1

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) recently announced that it has entered into an agreement with Hunt Mortgage , a licensed mortgage banker, to address the DFS’s findings that there was a “demonstrable lack of lending to minorities and in majority-minority neighborhoods in Western and Central New York by Hunt Mortgage.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Data is expected to show slower economic growth across Canada for the second half of 2017 and, along with it, a slowdown in small- and medium-sized business (SMB) lending, according to new research from small business credit data and analysis firm PayNet. In its “Small Business Lending Index,” released Tuesday (Dec.

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