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AltFin Proves Its Staying Power With Asian Investors

PYMNTS

More than $150 million in venture capital bolstered the B2B FinTech market this week, and while investors made big steps into areas like human resources, fleet management and artificial intelligence (AI), it was an old favorite that saw the most, and largest, investment rounds: alternative lending. Alternative Lending.

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The community banks standing by hospitality customers

Independent Banker

State Bank of Texas, led by president Sushil Patel (center), has a niche working with hospitality customers like Reena and Arun Patel, who own and operate a La Quinta hotel in Dallas. The bank also helped hotel operators obtain Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. Hospitality lending is a natural fit for the State Bank of Texas.

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Zions Bancorporation goes live on TCS BaNCS Core Banking software

Bobsguide

The core transformation program, titled “FutureCore,” is divided into phases and Consumer Lending for the 7 affiliate banks is the first phase to go live, with other phases to follow. The completion of this consumer lending installation represents our first step toward having a fully integrated core loan and deposit system.

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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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Spilling Business Beans

Independent Banker

Treasury program that’s the well-kept secret in small-business lending. In 2013, Columbia State Bank in Oregon used a 50 percent loan guarantee from the state of Oregon’s Business Oregon program to support a loan to Boneyard Brewery for the company’s expansion to a new, 15,000-square-foot facility. By Jessica Milano.

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5 ways AI can improve customer service

Independent Banker

In addition, AI enabled Sunwest to pursue its specialty of solar lending. Stearns is still researching the expansion of AI operational functions, Bidinger says. For example, Gopal says there is a growing focus on automated lending. Susan Springer is a writer in Oregon. Cloud, Minn., Because the $2.3

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The benefits of small business relationships

Independent Banker

In many ways, we have always operated with the initiative to become a true advisor to our customers, but in the last few years, it has become a strategic focus to function this way on a daily basis,” says Joe Allen, senior vice president/central market leader. They can go ahead and operate and know that our bank is behind them,” Allen says.