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Consumer Lending Compliance: Hot-Button Issues to Monitor

Abrigo

Consumer Lending Laws & Compliance Financial institutions offering consumer loans need to know about these major consumer lending laws and recent compliance issues. You might also like this webinar, "Consumer Lending 101.". Consumer lending compliance spotlight. Pandemic Issues.

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

unsecured lending is bad rather than unsecured lending should only be extended to high pass risk rated credit). If actual practices vary materially from the written guidelines and procedures, the source of this discrepancy should be identified, and either actual practices or the written policy should be changed.

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Budget Surplus? 5 Ways to Invest in Your Financial Institution with This Year’s Excess Budget

Abrigo

In a competitive lending environment, many banks and credit unions are concerned about losing good-quality loans if they over-price them. Lending & Credit Risk. Consumer Lending. Lending & Credit Risk. Consumer Lending Compliance: Hot-Button Issues to Monitor. Beef up your loan pricing strategy. Learn More.

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Why Financial Institutions are Updating Loan Pricing Strategies

Abrigo

Risk ratings, of course, attempt to label the relative possibility of default using a bank’s interpretation of a borrower’s financial situation, as seen through the lens of its underwriting guidelines. Regardless of individual bank underwriting guidelines, a risk rating of 5 is riskier than a 3. But how much riskier?

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Fed Casting Wary Eye On FinTech Firms’ Infrastructure Access?

PYMNTS

which have been looking into the ways that licenses and charters can be granted to FinTechs to help them offer lending and other services nationwide. Those regulators state that such services can be brought to thus-far underserved areas, and might boost lending to small businesses. It would be helpful for the Fed to clarify.”

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VC Firm Brings Partnership Model To Amazon Sellers

PYMNTS

It’s a world where the parent company has such as tight rein that one step out of the guidelines and regulations can merit a devastating suspension. So we looked at the financing end, and then all of those lending options. Of course, the Nikes and Under Armours have legal teams and vast amounts of capital.

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Eight state attorneys general file lawsuit seeking to overturn OCC’s true lender rule

CFPB Monitor

However, the AG plaintiffs in the new lawsuit instead view the Rule as “an unlawful attempt” by the OCC to “facilitate predatory lending” and support “rent-a bank schemes.”. Of course, this new lawsuit is not the only (or perhaps most serious) risk to the Rule.