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Ebury Powers Global Payments For Crédito Agrícola Corporates

PYMNTS

payments platform Ebury and Portuguese bank Crédito Agrícola (CA) have forged a partnership to allow the bank to work with more customers online and in a wider range of currencies, Ebury announced Thursday (March 19). Duarte Líbano Monteiro, country manager for Ebury Portugal, said the company was happy to be working with CA.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

Here, we highlight some of last year’s most successful loan producers in the areas of agriculture, commercial and consumer/mortgage lending. The score combines the average of the bank’s percentile rank for lending concentration and for loan growth over the past year in each lending category. By Ed Avis. Methodology. AGRICULTURE.

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Risk of Derivatives – The Fall of an Index

South State Correspondent

Barings Bank, Orange County (CA), Enron, Long-Term Capital Management, and other entities misused derivatives or didn’t understand the difference between hedging and speculating. Unfortunately, some banks adopted BSBY as one of their preferred indexes and in doing so created risk in derivatives and operations.

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Lending Club Names Operations Chief, President

American Banker

Lending Club said Thursday that it has hired Sameer Gulati, formerly of McKinsey & Co., to be its chief operations officer and promoted another executive, Scott Sanborn, to president. Both are newly created positions at the nonbank lender.

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CA appellate court rules bail bond premium financing agreements are consumer credit contracts subject to cosigner notice requirement

CFPB Monitor

Most significantly, it means that other consumer protection requirements applicable to consumer credit are potentially applicable to the Premium Agreements such as state usury laws and federal and state disclosure and fair lending laws. Bail-related agreements are also the subject of a CFPB enforcement action filed in February 2021.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

CB Insights

15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: Philadelphia, PA. Operating Location: Menlo Park, CA. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Current Firm: Benchmark.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

According to the CFPB, the new members “include experts in consumer protection, financial services, community development, fair lending, civil rights, consumer financial products or services, representatives of community banks and credit unions, and scholars with relevant methodological and subject matter experience.”