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Small Business Lending Is Crucial in Fighting the Deposit Wars

Gonzobanker

For bankers to be successful in the small business lending market, they need to execute on several key tenets: strategy, people, process and technology. Community banks need to analyze the demographics and varied business segments to identify the growth potential of each market. No two markets are created equal.

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Community Banks Debut FinTech Alliance

PYMNTS

To that end, news came earlier this week in the United States that a dozen community and regional banks have formed a group aimed at exploring the opportunities amid FinTech offerings. Here In The States. In the United States, sandboxes are grabbing a bit of headline space.

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Top concerns and growth strategies of community banks: Part II

Abrigo

This article is the second in a two-part series on top concerns and growth strategies of community banks. Everyone in the banking industry seems to be asking the same question these days: How can we facilitate growth? banks are moving back into commercial real estate (CRE) lending as the economy continues to improve.

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1Q 2024 Commercial Relationship Credit and Pricing Trends

South State Correspondent

Since our last update on pricing and credit HERE , commercial loan pricing trends for the first quarter of 2024 continue to be driven by the perceived increase in credit risk, tighter credit supply and banks’ need for wider margins. percentage points bringing forward looking LGD to 44% of the average community bank loan amount.

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New York Department of Financial Services settles enforcement action with community bank over auto dealer fair lending allegations

CFPB Monitor

While creditors are allowed to price loans differently based on objective differences in creditworthiness, New York’s Fair Lending Law prohibits discrimination against protected classes for the granting, withholding, extending, renewing of credit or in the fixing of interest rates, terms or conditions of any form of credit.

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For Community Banks, Big Business From Small Business Credit Cards

PYMNTS

For community banks serving small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs), training an eye on credit cards can translate into additional revenue streams and tap into an unmet need for those SMBs. Kearney found 26 percent of small business cardholders have community banking relationships in place. There’s a lot of runway here.

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Spotlight on lending: Commercial loan growth geographically

Abrigo

Now that banks have filed their third quarter financial reports , what did the lending picture look like last quarter? banks is up $157 billion from the same period in 2013. However, Q3 commercial lending is down from the beginning of 2014 (quarter ending 3/31/2014) by about $67 billion. From that subset of all U.S.

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