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5 Reasons to expand small business lending

Abrigo

In the 2015 Growth Strategy Survey by Bank Director , the most commonly cited areas for growth were Commercial Real Estate Lending, C&I loans, SBA loans, and Construction loans. This is compounded by the growing trend of Millennial small business owners.

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How Small FIs’ SMB Lending Journeys Nudge The US Toward Open Banking

PYMNTS

As Mark Rockefeller, co-founder and chief executive officer of small business lending-as-a-service provider StreetShares , told PYMNTS in a recent interview, that pressure to digitize expands to credit unions and community banks in their SMB lending offerings, too, and do it profitably. “This is an extraordinary thing. .”

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

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And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. The rise of FinTech offers a bit of a prism through which to view those events. It should be noted that almost all mortgage security finance (i.e.,

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Apps And Alternative Finance Gain FinTech Investor Favor In India

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In terms of the total amount invested to date in FinTechs, as tracked by PYMNTS via the India FinTech Tracker, the year to date tally stands at just under $3.7 Groww focuses on investment products and services marketed to millennials. The FinTech had already raised $47 million in equity financing.

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Why Digital Lenders Are Tightening Their Lending Criteria

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In the early days of online lending, the big appeal was access to funds for potential borrowers with few, if any, options for securing capital. The move comes in the face of growing evidence that the loans they have sold and secured have not quite performed up to par. The Coming Risk Assessment Reset.

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6 realities for banks about lending to small businesses

Abrigo

Most notably, the institutions recognized that change was overdue for their business lending programs. There is no document ping pong, and you submit everything online securely. • Understand and meet the desires of millennial borrowers, who will constitute 75 percent of the workforce by 2025.

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Salesforce On Digitizing The Mortgage Process — With An Eye On Millennials

PYMNTS

And according to Geoff Green, global head of mortgage and lending at Salesforce , the experience is ripe for change. The need to digitize the mortgage experience, according to Green, comes against a backdrop where a number of FinTechs and tech saving firms such as Rocket have gained at least some momentum against traditional mortgage firms.