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How a Wyoming credit union is doing more lending despite lower demand

American Banker

Consumer appetites for new loans have slowed in the face of record interest rates, but Sunlight Federal Credit Union's partnership with Avana Capital helps identify commercial real estate opportunities in markets both local and national.

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GAO: FinTech Firms, FIs Seek Alternative Data Clarity In Lending

PYMNTS

Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that financial regulators should look more closely at the role of non-bank tech companies in the small business (SMB) lending and consumer lending markets. Included in that movement toward tech in capital markets, he said that could include blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Bitcoin Daily: US Regulators Join Global Financial Innovation Network; Colorado Explores Crypto Banking For Cannabis Firms

PYMNTS

members of GFIN will seek to advance financial and market integrity, consumer and investor protection, financial inclusion, competition, and financial stability. The possible law is expected to be similar to the Special Purpose Depository Institutions (SPDI) law passed in Wyoming.

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Zions Bancorporation goes live on TCS BaNCS Core Banking software

Bobsguide

The TCS BaNCS deployment provides Zions a parameterized, US market compliant, real-time solution, sets up Zions to go Digital, be nimble & efficient and shift to a customer centric approach. It’s a significant landmark not just for TCS and for Zions, but for the banking industry in North America.

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How the OCC is building Crypto America

Lex Sokolin

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. They have not been distributed by fiduciaries to the mass market. Selling a diversified, cheap asset allocation as your core investment is a stable market equilibrium. It is logic. It is statistics.

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How the OCC is building Crypto America

Lex Sokolin

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. They have not been distributed by fiduciaries to the mass market. Selling a diversified, cheap asset allocation as your core investment is a stable market equilibrium. It is logic. It is statistics.

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From Farce to Menace

Independent Banker

Even as nearly one-third of Americans are already members of a credit union, it seems there’s almost nothing the NCUA still won’t try to further expand the market reach and special tax-exempt privileges of the credit unions it supervises. Talk about your captive regulator! When credit unions say “jump,” the NCUA says, “how high?”.