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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

WATCH Takeaway 1 Banks and credit unions are critical sources of capital for businesses in their communities, so how institutions assess CRE credits matters. Takeaway 3 Loan-level stress testing can help assess repricing risk, while capital stress testing helps clarify the impact of CRE loan losses on capital.

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Open Banking Expands Into SMB Lending, Smaller Banks

PYMNTS

But the latest initiatives reveal a growing interest in transforming internal processes, particularly among smaller banks looking to upgrade their core infrastructure and elevate small business lending operations. The regional bank also noted growing interest among smaller FIs to embrace the bank-FinTech collaboration trend.

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UK, US SMB Lending Experience A Growing Divide

PYMNTS

One area of impact is small business finance and lending, with small businesses and lenders seeing a slowdown in demand. It’s a trend that starkly contrasts with continued growth in small and medium-size business (SMB) finance in the U.S., Geopolitical volatility in the U.K. according to the latest data. and the U.K. .

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Banks Keep SMB Lending Gains Rolling

PYMNTS

In its monthly Small Business Lending Index, released Tuesday (Sept. When you combine a strong economy, healthy retail demand and the willingness of small business owners to reinvest their savings from tax cuts, it creates a positive atmosphere for small business lending ,” said Rohit Arora, Biz2Credit CEO, in a statement.

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Why P2P Could Soon Play A Leading Role In Middle East FinTech

PYMNTS

When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in recent years thanks to digital and mobile technology, along with online marketplace models. So-called peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has certainly faced challenges in certain markets. More Focus on P2P Lending.

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Closing Latin America’s $350B SMB Trade-Finance Gap

PYMNTS

But, as Shoihet said, these firms account for roughly 50 percent of trade volume in the LATAM region. The other 50 percent, he said, comes from the SMBs that are being overlooked by the traditional financial services community, he told PYMNTS — and who create a majority of jobs in the region. trillion globally, according to Shoihet.

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Banks, usually hungry for growth, are now looking to shrink

American Banker

The trend is particularly prominent at regional banks that are preparing to comply with new capital rules. Much of the industry is slimming down, with some banks calling it quits on riskier sectors and selling loans they no longer want.