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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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Facing Tougher Times, Prosper Marketplace Is Making Deep Staff Cuts

PYMNTS

The biggest individual cut will be a Utah office dedicated to lending for medical procedures, but 14 percent of Prosper’s San Francisco- and Phoenix-based workforce is also on its way out the door. Changing market conditions (and some higher-than-expected default rates) have changed the math and softened investor interest some.

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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Prosper Marketplace’s Precarious Path Forward

PYMNTS

With the recent tightening of the capital markets, we are refocusing on our core consumer loans business,” he said. 40 million | What Prosper paid to acquire medical-lending firm American Healthcare Lending LLC and personal-finance startup Billguard Inc.

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Growing a mortgage portfolio: Encourage borrowers to bank local

Abrigo

In the spirit of the go local movement, new data from Sageworks Bank Information peeked in on 10 cities to see which community banks were making an impact on local mortgage lending. • Phoenix, Arizona – Arizona Bank & Trust ($102 million). Flagstar capitalizes on going local, too. banks and credit unions.

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Collaboration: The New Competitive Weapon

Gonzobanker

In an industry where the top five institutions control more than half the market share, it amazes me how few of the 6,000 other banks are taking advantage of shared insights and resources to compete. GonzoBanker Bank Chief Risk Officer Roundtable Phoenix Apr 3-5. GonzoBanker Bank CFO Roundtable Phoenix May 15-17.

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National Small Business Week Celebrates the American Entrepreneurial Spirit

Abrigo

This year’s National Small Business Week , themed “SBA: Dream Big, Start Small,” will include special events in Atlanta, New York, Denver, Phoenix, San Jose, Oakland and Washington, D.C. Capital: SBA fills gaps in the commercial lending marketplace so success in the small business sector is based on merit, not family wealth.

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Our Finest Hour

Jeff For Banks

We were encouraged to take government capital, only to have the government change the rules on us afterward, and the public decry "government bailout". Now our politicians are doing everything in their power to get us to lend, while their examiner surrogates are doing everything in their power to criticize our loans. I think so.

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