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Member business lending: How to leverage MBL for credit union growth

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Develop an MBL program while mitigating risk Credit unions looking for alternate paths to growth in today's rising rate environment may be primed to leverage member business lending. Takeaway 3 The specific policy areas outlined below should be carefully considered by credit unions engaged in member business lending.

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California’s Proposed Business Lending Rules Draw Support

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Proposed regulations would give small businesses in California the nation’s most extensive set of truth-in-lending protections for small business borrowers. . In 2018, California began the journey of establishing lending transparency for small businesses in the state.

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FinTech Jeff Aims To Boost Lending To The Underbanked In South Asia

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With no credit scores, limited financial transaction histories, and a huge amount of people who don’t even have a bank account, lending money in Vietnam is no simple task. While most financiers would run from an environment like that, CEO Toms Niparts of Jeff , an app-based lending platform based in Latvia, saw it as a huge opportunity. “We

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Nonbank Lending Hits $52T, With US Assets At $15T

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Nonbank lending – also known as “ shadow banking ” – has seen its assets hit $52 trillion, despite the fact that the sector poses significant risks. By comparison, traditional bank assets had a 35 percent boost to reach $148 trillion during that same period. While the U.S. trillion ($9.1

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A step-by-step guide to financial institution strategic planning

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In a banking landscape that is constantly changing with new regulations, increasing competition, and other new challenges, it is critical to maximize your strategic plan's effectiveness. What impact does peer comparison have on your loan pricing? Every stakeholder should be on board. What are your loan pricing metrics?

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Without Regulation, Alternative Lenders Turn To Self-Policing

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Last week, OnDeck, Kabbage and CAN Capital banned together to form the Innovative Lending Platform Association (ILPA), an advocacy group to champion increased transparency for small business borrowers in the alternative and marketplace lending sphere. Is the alternative lending space concerned about incoming regulation? “No,

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Lending Club’s Tough Fall

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Lending Club has had a tough year. In early May, news broke that Lending Club had played fast and loose with its documents and disclosures, including the fact that then-CEO Renaud Laplanche had failed to disclose a personal stake in a firm Lending Club had an investment relationship with. The revelations were shocking.

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