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Listen: BetaBank will leverage AI to level playing field for SMB lending

BankInovation

A startup digital bank is working with Google and Deloitte to automate its lending for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and use artificial intelligence (AI) to eliminate bias.

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7 ways community banks can boost profitability

Independent Banker

of digital banking customers said they switched to digital banking because of the pandemic. Source: 2021 Provident Bank survey. These days, there’s a lot to contend with as a community bank, from changing consumer behaviors due to the pandemic to uncertainty surrounding the economy and inflation.

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Top 63 Online Digital Banks for U.S. Consumers (Nov 2023)

Fintech Labs Insights

Consumers have been banking online for 28 years. And from the very beginning, there have been pure-play digital banking startups. The first, online bank Security First Network Bank (SFNB) launched in 1995, just a year after Amazon.com. But unlike ecommerce, digital-only banking was slow to catch on.

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Apple’s Missed Shot, Marcus Loss And Fraud Prevention Top Week’s News

PYMNTS

Once upon a time in the 1960s, banks were building a series of one-off card-based solutions , much the way today in the ending days of the 2010s we see global digital banking, mobile wallets and alternative underwriting schemes building one-off tech-based solutions for financial services products. Goldman’s Marcus Has Lost $1.3B

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Avant Expands into Auto Lending with New Refinance Product

American Banker

Chicago-based Avant said Monday that it has started offering to refinance car owners’ loans. The firm also plans to begin financing purchases of new and used vehicles later in 2016.

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2020 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Financial institutions went from having no PPP lending program at all to funding their first loan in 90 days – and this with literally last-minute regulatory guidance. There have been many come-and-go digital banks.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

million gets the vaunted consumer lender a much-prized bank charter, low-cost deposits to juice current earnings, and a business lending capability to drive future growth. Goes to Larry Mazza and the crew at MVB Bank in West Virginia. We salute a legend of lending and credit union leadership.

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