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How Community Financial Institutions Can Regain the Small Business Lending Market

Abrigo

By leveraging their strengths in relationship lending and their access to technology in order to grow the small business loan portfolio profitably. CFIs are poised to regain the small business lending market Community Financial Institutions can leverage technology to improve customer experience and regain the small business lending market.

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Why banking technology makes sense – recession or not

Abrigo

Experts have highlighted numerous lessons from Southwest’s experience, many of which can benefit bank and credit union executives, regardless of their institution size, as they manage competing priorities for spending and growth initiatives on banking solutions. A failure in back-office technology directly affects customer experiences.

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Grasshopper Bank advances inclusion, stamps out ‘pattern matching’

Bank Innovation

Grasshopper opened in May 2019 after securing FDIC and OCC approval, a rare distinction for a digital-only bank. New York City-based Grasshopper Bank is geared toward startups, with a focus on pain points for founders.

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10 Top Banking Podcasts You Should be Listening to

Abrigo

Banking artificial intelligence (AI), the customer experience, enticing millennials, and change management are among subjects tackled in recent episodes. Lending & Credit Risk. Lending & Credit Risk. Listen to the podcast episode, " How To Sleep Easier at Night About Capital and Risk Levels.". keep me informed.

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CFPB and federal banking agencies issue RFI on the use of artificial intelligence by financial institutions

CFPB Monitor

In what could be an important step towards needed regulatory updating to accommodate the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) by financial institutions, the CFPB, FDIC, OCC, Federal Reserve Board, and NCUA issued a request for information (RFI) regarding financial institutions’ use of AI, including machine learning (ML). Fair lending.

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How Banks Can Tap Trust As Their Foundation For Innovation

PYMNTS

Square also made the jump into officially becoming a bank this week, with the award of an ILC banking license by the FDIC. All of a sudden, the question of what constitutes a bank is much trickier to answer than it once was, and so PYMNTS decided to ask customers directly. What we learned was interesting. “But

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Top 5 Customer Development Posts of 2019: AI and Additional Data

FICO

any bank that can’t grow (or at least sustain) its deposits base will face shrinking net interest margins and a competitive disadvantage in their consumer lending businesses….top We began to see a resurgence in small-dollar lending in 2018 with new regulatory guidance from the OCC and FDIC encouraging banks to compete with payday lenders.”.

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