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Small Business Banking Catching Up in Innovation Race

Bank Innovation

There are quite a few lending solutions these days for small businesses -- Funding Circle, OnDeck, Kabbage, and Square Capital, to name a just a few -- but innovation and digitization are lagging in other areas, such as digital account opening. Atlanta-based Gro has […].

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Lending FinTech GreenSky Files For IPO

PYMNTS

Lending FinTech GreenSky has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO). The Wall Street Journal reported that the Atlanta-based company, which enables retailers, health-care providers and home contractors to offer loans to their customers, could go public as soon as this summer.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions For Any Sized Bank That You Must Get Right in 2023

South State Correspondent

Because many banks are now producing below their cost of capital, growth further exacerbates their issues and drives them out of business (likely through a sale) faster. Without the windfall of profit accrued to banks in 2022 because of faster-than-expected rate increases, banks will need to be better allocators of capital.

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How Automated Authentication Helps Propel SMB Loan Disbursements

PYMNTS

The small- to medium-sized business (SMB) lending industry is in a unique position during the pandemic. Interest in the space has been revitalized due to the harsh financial blows the pandemic has dealt, providing opportunities for SMBs to gain capital and for lenders to facilitate. Of the 32 million SMBs in the U.S.,

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

Jeff For Banks

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. As both an MDI and CDFI, it applied for and received $80 million from the Emergency Capital Investment Program (ECIP) distributed by the U.S. Well done and best of luck leveraging the ECIP capital for good! #2. The Bancorp, Inc.

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Kabbage Scores Another European Bank with Santander UK Deal

Bank Innovation

Atlanta-based small business lender Kabbage is snapping up bank deals in Europe. Yesterday, the company announced it had reached an agreement with Santander UK to serve the bank’s SME customers. This follows a similar deal with ING in Spain last October.

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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.