PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

As relayed in recent coverage and interviews with Fundbox and Keeper Tax, the needs (and opportunities) are significant. trillion: Value of the small business lending market as estimated by the CFPB. 20 percent: Keeper Tax’s estimate of gig workers’ tax “overpayment.”.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For bankers to be successful in the small business lending market, they need to execute on several key tenets: strategy, people, process and technology. Another key player for successful small business banks is the vice president of business lending, who manages the relationship managers and reports to the chief lending officer.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Banks involved in ag lending understand that the volatility of the industry – unpredictable weather patterns, variable commodity prices and more – can often lead to higher amounts of risk compared to other concentrations. By improving policies and procedures, banks can make better and more profitable ag lending decisions.

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American Banker

MARCH 12, 2024

The agency had intended to block access to tax data by most lenders on June 30 as part of a policy change that sought to protect taxpayer privacy. But drew broad opposition from the financial services industry.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

According to Kris Puskar , senior vice president and business banking sales and innovation director at Eastern Bank , the current climate has forced both small businesses and their banks to shift their mindsets away from historical data and take a closer look at what's happening today in order to best prepare for tomorrow.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 28, 2019

Slow lending decisions and frustrating loan application processes are among borrowers’ biggest gripes with traditional financial institutions vs competitors such as online or alternative lenders. The document manager system captures applicant information more efficiently and accurately than when staff must key in data from paper applications.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Small Business Loans | 5 minute read Key Takeaways Credit unions' small business loans hit a record low, while small business lending continues to remain strong at big banks and community banks. Going digital can help reduce the cost of small business lending and capture more member business loans. Talk to an expert.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Tax season was approaching, and Jane, a Financial Advisor employed by Faux Advisors Group, wanted to target clients and prospects that would benefit from using tax-aware asset allocation (moving high-yield assets to a tax-deferred or exempt account to help decrease taxable income).

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2018

China introduced new tax initiatives aimed at bolstering the nation’s entrepreneurs, according to local news reports on Friday (May 4). Vice finance minister Cheng Lihua introduced seven new tax policies during a press conference Friday, with the goal of saving small businesses $9.45 Xinhua cited “official data” in its report.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2018

According to Wall Street Journal reports, credit cards remain a lucrative form of lending, but they aren’t seeing much benefit from the Fed raising rates of late — as what small increases there have been are offset by competition from other lenders trying to steal customers with lower interest rates. Balances of the industry surpassed $1.03

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The big deal is now complete: Fiserv announced this morning (July 29) that it has completed its acquisition of First Data Corporation. The two massive firms first inked the deal earlier this year, which will see Fiserv purchase First Data for $22 billion in an all-stock transaction. He also noted that outside the U.S.,

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Critical capital Should CRE lending be off the table? Recent headlines may lead bankers to believe that shunning commercial real estate lending is the safest path to limit or avoid credit risk, given stresses on CRE and regulatory concerns. But Kirby recommended examining data and surveys used to support this idea. Morgan data.

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Abrigo

APRIL 22, 2024

Recent dynamics of the small business lending market A deep understanding of the small business lending landscape and potential efficiencies can help banks and credit unions grow their portfolios. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending. Record new business formation and a wider gap between U.S.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 31, 2019

Financial institutions that want to play in the small business lending sandbox need to bring their digital toys. But how can community banks successfully compete with big banks and fintechs that are spending billions on their digital lending capabilities? In a recent American Banker. Source: DeBanked ). Technology Utilization.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Offering digital lending isn’t about the bells and whistles. started developing its digital lending platform about three years ago—and the bank is really glad it did. “I’m Community bankers are increasingly recognizing that the future of digital lending is here. Illustration by Out of the box/Stocksy. By Beth Mattson-Teig.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Small businesses’ access to traditional loans continues to grow as loan applications at big banks reached new heights last month, the latest Biz2Credit data showed. In its monthly Small Business Lending Index, released Tuesday (Sept. 11), Biz2Credit found that big banks in August approved 26.5 percent from July.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Small business hiring may have petered out in January, but lending to SMBs certainly didn’t. The latest Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index found SMB lending among large financial institutions (FIs) continued to climb, reaching a 25.3 percent approval rate in January.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

nonprofits are growing in number, revenue and assets, according to the most recent data available on this important segment of the economy. nonprofits are also opaque, considering only a small percentage is required to file some version of Form 990, the return for organizations exempt from income tax. Finances related to U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Nature abhors a vacuum, as the saying goes, and we might say the same for corporate lending. where smaller firms seem stuck in a limbo of fragmented lending solutions, and where loans are pricier than might be seen elsewhere. Data helps lenders make the best risk-adjusted lending decisions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2018

The Indian program provides individuals with a 12-digit ID code based on location and biometric data. 25 | Number of hours it can take for SMBs to manually prepare and submit paperwork for the business lending process. workforce by 2020.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2017

Good news is ahead for those suffering from low FICO scores — according to reports this morning, civil judgements and tax liens will by and large be coming off of consumer credit reports. Many liens and judgements do not include all of that data. Great news for buyers — possibly risky news for lenders.

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Abrigo

JUNE 14, 2016

Loan officers and the chief lending officer can play a role in protecting asset quality during the sales and application process, particularly during times of rapid loan growth. Here are three ways that the lending department can proactively help manage credit quality. Request a consistent set of product-specific documents.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2018

However, the business lending process is bogged down with manual paperwork that can take as long as 25 hours for SMBs to prepare and submit. Better data, faster, means better decisions faster, too. Data – and the application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable easy access to it, he explained – is the tool of choice for that.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) got their clocks cleaned by the pandemic, and turning to their traditional lending sources, they’ve encountered sclerotic systems and outdated policies not conceived for the needs of the recovering Main Street merchants of 2021. SMBs] are not engaging in the same way. I have proof.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

Traditional institutions are picking up steam in their efforts to collaborate with alternative financiers and FinTech firms, largely viewed as a way to spin the competition into allies and upgrade their lending services without the burden of in-house R&D. However, the Federal Reserve ‘s latest analysis of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Consumers and microbusinesses now get an average of two disbursements each year, excluding tax disbursements from local, state and federal governments. For instance, instant payments are most prevalent in the worlds of wages, insurance disbursements and lending payouts, according to the survey results. Fast Fact No. percent as of 2018.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 30, 2022

Since I rely heavily on data, I poured through my firm's product profitability reports that aggregates the answers from all of our clients. The charts below show the pre-tax profits as a percent of the total product portfolio during different rate scenarios compared to the Fed Funds Rate. The pre-tax ROA might not look great.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2018

Thus: short-term lending, massive debt and a financial black hole that gets deeper and deeper. In the latest Data Drivers, the question arose: Should employers care when their workers are in financial distress? Data Point One: 85 Percent. Data Point Two: 46 Percent. The cost is $300 billion to the U.S.

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Abrigo

APRIL 14, 2017

Experts agree that while commercial lending is a critical banking service, it has been one of the least automated and technology-reliant aspects of banking today. A credit risk manager at one bank with $900 million in total assets estimated that her team received approximately 8,220 tax returns in the 2015 calendar year.

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Abrigo

MAY 10, 2021

Knowing these elements of an LOS and an LOS vendor is critical for senior financial institution executives either shopping for an LOS for the first time or considering an improvement to their bank or credit union’s current business lending process. Lending process management is key to timely decisions. Workflow & Analysis.

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Abrigo

JULY 19, 2017

For banks and credit unions seeking to automate data entry, there are several software options on the market. One of the most common ways to import the data from a tax return into a digital system is to use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. This happens when a computer sees an image of a tax return.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

Credit Karma said yes to early tax refunds for consumers – for free. Good Tax Lending Karma. Good news for consumers avidly awaiting their tax refund for 2018: Credit Karma Tax is rolling out a new product call Earlybird Advance, an online refund advance service. And that was just Tuesday.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2017

According to the latest data out of auto lender Ally Financial, the auto lending segment seems to be encountering some engine trouble — brought on largely by rising defaults and falling used car prices.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

The breach of a tool that parents and students can use to streamline the student lending process has allowed information for 100,000 taxpayers to get out into the wild, according to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen on Thursday. The scam led to about 8,000 fraudulent refunds — worth about $30 million.

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Abrigo

MARCH 13, 2024

Protecting portfolio health Recognize ailing CRE loans early Media organizations are reporting scary-sounding data, and the headlines scream about the most recent victims. Beyond a hard money default due to a payment or maturity event, early warning signs for CRE loans typically manifest as a : Failure to pay real estate taxes.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

That’s how First Data ’s GM of Global Debit Solutions, Nandan Sheth , characterized the announcement last week that First Data and Mastercard had partnered so Mastercard business customers who use Mastercard Send could push real-time payments to debit cardholders using First Data’s Disburse-to-Debit solution.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Lending Tech With Almost Steady Grades (Even With Rough Semesters). Mortgage services provider ICE acquired mortgage services provider Black Knight bringing together the two largest providers in the space.

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