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Bank of America to Invest $500 Million in Technology to Drive Innovation and Sales

Bank Innovation

Bank of America will invest about $75 million per quarter in technology from now through the rest of 2019, the bank reported in its earnings call today.

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Amazon Taps BoA To Reduce Merchant Lending Risk

PYMNTS

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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Five questions with Duane Freeman, BofA’s svp of consumer vehicle lending

Bank Innovation

At Bank of America’s auto division, preserving a personal touch is key to engaging with both consumers, according to Duane Freeman, the bank’s senior vice president of consumer vehicle lending and national sales executive. “In

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Tax Reform Shows Early Signs Of SMB Bank Lending Impact

PYMNTS

said ZipBooks Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Jaren Nichols in a statement announcing research at the time. Bank of America paid an 18.6 Overall, the top banks saw lending grow by 2.3 Commercial and industrial lending accelerated among the top 25 banks in the U.S. The overwhelming response was ‘none at all.’”.

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SMB Lending Platform Nav Lands Visa Talent

PYMNTS

Small business lending platform Nav announced Tuesday (June 20) that Visa Head of Global Small Business Janet Zablock is joining its board as an independent member. “Small businesses have traditionally struggled to navigate an increasingly complex lending process,” Zablock said in another statement.

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How Small FIs’ SMB Lending Journeys Nudge The US Toward Open Banking

PYMNTS

As Mark Rockefeller, co-founder and chief executive officer of small business lending-as-a-service provider StreetShares , told PYMNTS in a recent interview, that pressure to digitize expands to credit unions and community banks in their SMB lending offerings, too, and do it profitably. “This is an extraordinary thing.

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Unbundling Bank Of America: How The Traditional Bank Is Being Disrupted

CB Insights

Bank of America and the traditional banking system is being disrupted across a wide variety of core revenue streams. . Bank of America, for one, saw profits drop 16% year-over-year (YoY) in Q3’20 to $4.9B. Sales and trading operations within banks can be lucrative. SMB lending . Consumer deposits & savings.

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