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Community Banks Aim To Amplify Competitive Edge With FinTechs

PYMNTS

With big banks pulling back from small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending in the wake of the global financial crisis, the market was ripe for someone else to fill the credit gap. Community banks approved 49 percent of SMB loan applications in November, according to the latest data from the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index.

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Community banks most likely to approve small business loans

Abrigo

According to a recent survey from four Federal Reserve Banks, small regional and community banks have the highest approval rate for small business loans. Small regional and community banks had a much higher approval rate (90 percent) for those firms classified as “Growers.”

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New Year’s Resolutions to Grow Your Financial Institution in 2020

Abrigo

In 2020, we will likely see financial institutions putting more emphasis on automating time-consuming, manual processes that bog down lending decisions. By automating these mundane, laborious tasks, lenders and credit analysts are then able to focus their time on the borrower or member and make faster, more efficient lending decisions.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

PYMNTS

The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. lending marketplace. Attorney Alex Tse. “We The Response.

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Powering-Up Tools: Your Membership Resources

Independent Banker

With a consultative approach, I ensure members’ needs are being met through our eight regional offices,” he says. While all of ICBA’s members are FDIC-insured, the association represents Federal Reserve member banks, nationally chartered banks and state-chartered institutions. IB: What does ICBA membership involve? Member Access®.

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Disruptive technology will not kill banks

Jeff For Banks

Now the amount of money in US registered investment companies exceeds that in FDIC insured banks. Lending Club funded $5 billion in loans since its founding in 2007. How long before those corporate accounting system providers strike a deal with some regional or national bank to provide seamless views to corporate customers?

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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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