Celent Banking

JANUARY 22, 2015

Peer to Peer (P2P) lending is one of those situations and banks have started to experiment with it, taking P2P lending to main street. Banks are certainly not playing hide and seek with P2P lending. Regulation is an important issue for banks to get into P2P lending and depending the country, there may be restrictions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

To service Main Street businesses, it’s an obvious advantage for a financial institution to actually be on Main Street. They view themselves as technology companies … On the other side of the spectrum, you’ve got community banks and credit unions.” “This is an extraordinary thing.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2018

With big banks pulling back from small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending in the wake of the global financial crisis, the market was ripe for someone else to fill the credit gap. Community banks approved 49 percent of SMB loan applications in November, according to the latest data from the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 18, 2022

After moving alone in 2020 to reform its Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has joined the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Federal Reserve Board in issuing a joint notice of proposed rulemaking setting forth proposed amendments to their regulations implementing the CRA.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 9, 2024

We estimate that the average contractual loan commitment for term credit at community banks has decreased from just under five years in 2022 to just under three years currently. Community banks should carefully consider the prudence of such a strategy from both a risk and revenue perspective.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The regulators themselves can’t even find their way to agreement. Regulators would still have the discretion to alter these ratings based on the facts on the ground. Multiple community groups have argued that banks could receive CRA credit for building a sports stadium as long as it was constructed in an opportunity zone.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Working through any difficulty or crisis at your community bank won’t be a walk in the park, but it may lead to an experience for which you’re truly grateful. As a community banker, you’re either going through a crisis or you’re preparing for one. And today, CAMELS are a main area of focus for our bank. Photo by Chris Williams.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2019

VeChain, which was started in 2015 in Singapore, showcases a lending platform based on the blockchain that aids clients in assessing the quality of items purchased via supply chain analysis. The main goal of the project is to widen the bank’s understanding of the eKrona’s technological potential.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 21, 2022

Last week we wrote about loan-level vs. balance sheet hedging for community banks and provided our loan proposal generator ( HERE ). We compared and contrasted the two strategies and sized the market for community banks. A community bank may transact one or only a few balance sheet hedges over many years.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

Silicon Valley-based financial services startup Earnin has potentially run afoul of New York State regulators with its payday advance product for consumers. New York is one of 15 states where payday lending has been banned and interest rates have been capped at 25 percent.

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Abrigo

MAY 24, 2023

Bipartisan support The SAFE Banking Act's long road to the Senate Many in the AML/CFT community have been watching the unfolding of the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act for some time now with no significant progress.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Soon after Lending Club revealed its ex-CEO may have artificially inflated the company’s lending volumes, the U.S. Treasury Department released its report on the sector and concluded that the market would likely benefit from greater oversight from regulators. Alternative Lending. Lendingkart.

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Abrigo

APRIL 15, 2020

Community financial institutions have worked non-stop since learning of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to understand the details, take applications, and get loans through the SBA E-Tran system so that fellow business owners in their communities can retain or bring back workers. Lending & Credit Risk. SBA Lending.

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NCR

MARCH 7, 2018

Initially, a wave of fintech startups were viewed as posing the main threat, but more recently, it has been suggested that it is the bigger tech players – the likes of Google, Facebook and Apple – that may pose the biggest challenge. But now one key regulator in the US has suggesting this could change.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

Financing of all sorts was on the downswing, and SMB owners began dipping into their own piggy banks before seeking a lending agreement. The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act loosened some of the regulations on small financial institutions, including community banks whose customers included many small businesses.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

I think it is pretty obvious when you read stories about the payday lending industry – and how it goes wrong for customers – that consumers need a better alternative,” Onward Financial Founder Ronnie Washington said. Onward chose to focus on the employer as a natural partner in financial wellness for three main reasons.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The National Credit Union Administration’s irresponsible power play earlier this year to ignore the explicit member business lending limits Congress has set for credit unions could not be ignored. percent-total-asset cap on credit union commercial lending that Congress purposefully put in place.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

It is easy to wag a finger at consumers not price-shopping their car loans, mortgages or personal loans carefully, Lulic said — but only if one overlooks the fact that comparison shopping lending products is not nearly as easy as comparing consumer goods. All of our reviews are based on community votes to recommend or not recommend.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Community bankers offer real-world reasons for more Basel III relief. Nearly one year after the Basel III capital rules went into effect, community bankers say that now recognize just how much more complex and how much more difficult this new set of capital rules will make life and business for them if they remain in place.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 28, 2016

Ruby Valley National Bank is not much different from other community banks, except our risk threshold is probably higher than most. Serving a marketplace with a population of 7,800, where cows outnumber people by five to one, our community bank has developed strong agricultural lending expertise. By Ken Walsh. ROAA in 2015: 2.20

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 24, 2022

However, some community banks are still deciding on the correct term lending index to adopt. We believe that having more options for community banks is beneficial. Community banks have used overnight indices such as Fed Funds and Prime for decades, and those are not going away. Robustness/Volume. Representative.

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FICO

OCTOBER 2, 2019

I would like to examine what I think ‘small banks’ (community banks, regional banks, and credit unions) can do to capture more market share of the small business lending market. I may use the bank for my checking and deposit bank or have previous lending experience with them. Community banks are called that for a reason.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2019

It never ceases to amaze me how powerful we are when we work together, community bankers. First and foremost, we have a new farm bill—something that is good for American agriculture and for community bankers’ ability to provide credit to support their local economies. As a community banker in Taos, N.M., And while S.2155

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

Online lending . When the regulators come marching in, getting out of the way is usually a better idea. And that, says the industry, is bad news, as costs of compliance with stricter regulation could be coming at exactly the moment these firms can’t take on any new costs. . A pretty clear-cut sizzle. The fizzle wears on.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

New payment and financial technologies are quickly emerging from the FinTech community, all with the promise of expediting payments and reducing the distance between cross-border trading partners. Other recent API developments aim to offer professionals an efficient way to process payments and remain compliant with local regulations.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

When small business (SMB) investment marketplace MainVest announced a $3 million Seed funding round last week, it did something that many Main Street SMBs cannot do. Exploring the importance of the small business through the lens of its immediate community is a critical component of promoting education among entrepreneurs.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. Marketplace Lending. Blockchain. Digital banks. Blockchain. Take the blockchain. And to learn.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 5, 2020

Solid loan grading systems must be carefully considered and defined, effectively communicated, and steadfast in both good and bad times. Loan grading scales, weighting, and adjustment levels should be a direct reflection of the institution’s credit culture and past lending experiences – especially those painful losses, Wear explained. “I

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Competition and regulatory risk in car lending race off. Indirect auto lending has played a major role for Security Federal Savings Bank in Jasper, Ala. Half a dozen years ago, the community bank held $13 million in auto loans. Today Security Federal Savings’ vehicle-lending portfolio has been reduced to $3 million.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2016

In his annual letter to shareholders, Dimon went on, at some length, to say that the “mission-critical” services that big banks can supply are the types of things “regional and community banks simply cannot do.”. “In In 2014, the proposal was removed before it got to the voting stage.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Competition and regulatory risk in car lending race off. Indirect auto lending has played a major role for Security Federal Savings Bank in Jasper, Ala. Half a dozen years ago, the community bank held $13 million in auto loans. Today Security Federal Savings’ vehicle-lending portfolio has been reduced to $3 million.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. Second, this can be accomplished only if the industry does not have too much influence over its regulators and if the regulators have the ability to hire, train, and retain qualified staff. Third, the regulators need adequate financial resources. What caused it?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

An industrial bank is an FDIC-insured depository institution that is generally subject to the same banking laws and regulations as any other bank charter type, with the important exception of the Bank Holding Act of 1956. Square already has an SMB lending arm – Square Capital – which it operates through a deal with Utah-based Celtic Bank.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 11, 2022

The series, "ALM 101: Introduction to Asset/Liability Management," will explore topics like capital planning , interest rate risk, and others that highlight how ALM is an ongoing, useful process for banks and credit unions rather than simply a “check the box” report required by regulators.

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Independent Banker

MAY 26, 2016

The so-called TRID rule took effect last fall, of course, and has since been the bane of many mortgage and compliance officers on Main Street. Whoever proposes any new regulations should first have to personally apply their proposals in a real-world bank setting.

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Abrigo

MARCH 20, 2015

For the largest of American financial institutions – those that much of the public banks with for checking, mortgages and auto loans – stress testing regulations have been passed and executed to avoid a repeat of 2008. Bank health is also important on the surface level. Nearly 53 percent of the 80 banks included fell in that asset range.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The social media site faced accusations that its ad-targeting platform — which allows ad buyers to select what demographic groups they want to target with their advertisements — was allowing and encouraging financial institutions (FIs) to violate non-discrimination provisions of the Fair Housing and Truth in Lending Acts.

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