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Radius Bank in Boston Launches National SBA Lending Platform

American Banker

Radius Bank in Boston has recruited a team to lead a national push into Small Business Administration lending. Among the new hires is Diane Gallion, a former executive at The Bancorp in Delaware, who will be national director of government-guaranteed lending at Radius.

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Synchrony Says Erroneous Email Not Tied To Data Breach

PYMNTS

The company has a partnership with Amazon in which it lends to customers with low credit scores. “We have confirmed none of your personal data was compromised,” the financial services company said in an email to customers. In other Amazon news , the eCommerce giant is opening a store on the Chinese site Pinduoduo.

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Community Bank History: Peoples National Bank, Hallstead, Pennsylvania

Jeff For Banks

Community banks tout themselves as better than national and regional banks because of how close they are to their communities. A case in point: the First National Bank of Hallstead… now Peoples National Bank (see photo). The bank closed during the national bank holiday that was ordered by President Roosevelt in 1933.

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CFPB holds field hearing on proposed rules for prepaid accounts

CFPB Monitor

Yesterday I attended the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) field hearing in Wilmington, Delaware, at which the CFPB unveiled and accepted public comment on its long-awaited proposed rule for prepaid accounts under the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (Regulation E) and the Truth In Lending Act (Regulation Z) (the Rule).

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From Farce to Menace

Independent Banker

It’s yet another disturbing proposal from the National Credit Union Administration to bureaucratically finagle its way around Congress and federal law. By Camden R. Fine, President and CEO of ICBA. So here we go again. Basically, all air-breathing mammals in the United States would qualify to be credit union members.

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Washington Watch

Independent Banker

Even though the industry identified several major regulatory burdens, including those posed by the Truth in Lending Act and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, few substantive regulations were repealed. Lynda Messick , president and CEO at Community Bank Delaware in Lewes, Del.; in Lowell, Mass.;

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Banking Is Only The Beginning: 30 Big Industries Blockchain Could Transform

CB Insights

Others include Hijro (formerly Fluent), which offers an alternative platform for lending into global supply chains, and Skuchain , which builds blockchain-based products for the business-to-business trade and supply chain finance market. Cloud storage . Energy management is another industry that has historically been highly centralized.