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Small business lending insights Vol. 1

Abrigo

Recent data and trends of the small business lending market SMB Lending Insights is a snapshot of current financial trends and metrics that impact small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending and financial institutions. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending.

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Mastercard Commits $500M To Boost Black Communities, Businesses

PYMNTS

Mastercard said it will invest $500 million in Black communities across the U.S. We have an obligation … to be part of the positive change Black communities so rightly need now," said Ajay Banga , Mastercard CEO. "We over the next five years in a bid to address racial disparities in financial services. This is a time for action.

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Yield Curve Impact on Bank Profits

South State Correspondent

The bigger risk to community banks’ business model is not a moderate recession induced by aggressive interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve. The Atlanta Fed GDPNow forecast is for Q2 GDP to be just under 2.50%, and the Fed Funds futures market continues to push out the start of the interest rate cuts.

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

South State Correspondent

Popular projects for 2023 include online loan and deposit onboarding utilizing third-party data to speed the process, compliance-as-a-service, payments, card controls, service case management, leveraging data for customer insights, and providing open banking APIs to customers. Remember all those five-year fixed-rate loans you booked at 4%?

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

Jeff For Banks

Communities First Financial Corporation (Now FFB Bancorp) (OTCQX: FFBB) #2. Treasury as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). Treasury to be used to help underserved communities bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic. Coastal Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: CCB) #3. OFG Bancorp (NYSE: OFG) #4. The Bancorp, Inc.

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Pricing Models – 4 Changes Banks Need to Make Now

South State Correspondent

Making loans is central to your bank’s operations, and lending has a compounding effect on profitability. For the average community bank, the cost of capital is currently hovering around 11.83%, which means banks need to produce above that amount in risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC) to stay in business.

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More Data, More To Do

Independent Banker

In a world where information can be the most valuable currency, community banks are gathering more of their internal data. a bank software provider in Cedar Park, Texas, most community banks gather data well for reporting purposes. Drew McMullen, a partner and managing director for Sense Corp. Lending, transaction data.

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