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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

Critical capital Should CRE lending be off the table? Recent headlines may lead bankers to believe that shunning commercial real estate lending is the safest path to limit or avoid credit risk, given stresses on CRE and regulatory concerns. Certainly, one asset class, the regional mall, is quite dead,” Kirby said.

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Avant Brings SaaS Lending Tech To Banks

PYMNTS

We’re also a pure-play technology company, designed to support banks [that] want to offer lending products, but … either can’t or won’t dedicate hundreds of millions to building the capacity,” he said. Avant launched its first bank partnership with Alabama-based Regions Bank in 2016, using its SaaS product.

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The CFPB Sets Its Sights On Marketplace Lending

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Marketplace lending has grown in popularity and so has the CFPB’s own knowledge of a variety of lenders in the market,” said Lucy Morris, a partner at Hudson Cook and the CFPB’s former deputy enforcement director. The CFPB has been pursuing this quietly for some time.

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Mortgage applicants find cozy home at some credit unions

Abrigo

Utilizing the Bank Information platform, Sageworks recently released a ranking of the top mortgage lending credit unions in the U.S. by geographic region , identifying the top 10 credit unions by mortgage loan volume for the Northeast, South, Midwest and South. Bruemmer, executive vice president for Landmark Credit Union.

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Another Online Lender Announces Layoffs

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Consumer lending platform Avant is giving pink slips to 60 employees, or about 7 percent of its workforce. The news came late last week amid what Crain’s Chicago Business said is “an abrupt negative turn in investor sentiment toward consumer lenders of all stripes.”.

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Chicago, SBA Lending to Factor Heavily in Huntington's Growth Story

American Banker

The Ohio company is eager to rev up SBA lending in the Windy City now that it has closed on its purchase of FirstMerit. CEO Steve Steinour also credits his company's willingness to make big upfront community commitments for a seamless approval process.

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Researchers Aim To Answer Big Questions In AltFin

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The University of Chicago and the University of Cambridge are once again partnering to explore the alternative finance industry and offer guidance on its trajectory for the coming year. Will 2016 once again present an explosion in alt-lending transaction value? The debate continues to rage over the future of alternative lending.

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