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Regions Bank Teams Up with Marketplace Lender Avant

Bank Innovation

Regions Bank teamed up with online marketplace lender Avant Inc. Beginning in the second half of 2016, customers can apply for an unsecured loan on the Regions Bank website through the Avant platform, which will carry Read More.

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How PSD2 Will Change Lending

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While these regulations are aimed at increasing consumer trust by allowing them more transparency, many consumers in the region are still adjusting. How PSD2 is Changing Lending in the U.K. GDPR was officially signed into law in 2016. and how third-party players are coping with it.

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Regions Bank Plucks New CIO From FinTech Arena

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The latest example of this comes from Regions Bank at its corporate headquarters in Birmingham, Ala. Prior to joining the Regions Bank community, Duggirala served as the CTO of Kabbage, a small business lender. While at Kabbage, Duggirala was responsible for moving the ball forward on the company’s lending platform scalability.

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UK, US SMB Lending Experience A Growing Divide

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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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China’s $9.1T Shadow Lending Sector On The Decline

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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. Private firms rely on shadow lending, since state-owned banks favor lending to government-controlled companies.

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Avant Brings SaaS Lending Tech To Banks

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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. Avant launched its first bank partnership with Alabama-based Regions Bank in 2016, using its SaaS product.

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The new 4 C’s of commercial lending

Celent Banking

Last week, I participated in a Finextra webinar on the topic of “Connected Credit and Compliance for Lending Growth” with panelists from ING, Vertus Partners, Misys and Credits Vision. Cost of compliance. Changing client expectations. Competition from new entrants.

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