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What’s a Digital Lending Ecosystem and Why Should Banks Care?

Gonzobanker

Inconceivable” is the word the movie character was referring to, but if we were to apply this quote to the banking industry then the word that is constantly being used is “digital transformation” — and based on Cornerstone Advisors’ research, most banks have no idea what it means. I do not think it means what you think it means.”.

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CFPB 2020 fair lending report highlights adverse action notices when using artificial intelligence

CFPB Monitor

The CFPB’s annual fair lending report covering its 2019 activities is scheduled to be published in tomorrow’s Federal Register. The Bureau states that an area of innovation that it is monitoring for fair lending and credit access issues is “artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically, machine learning (ML), a subset of AI.”

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iWoca Looks To Grow SME Alt Lending Access

PYMNTS

Alternative lending was supposed to be the way SMEs broke through banking barriers to gain access to capital, enabling them to boost growth opportunities, investment options, commercialization of innovations and employment. This is not entirely unusual, as alternative lending is still a relatively new and growing category.

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Community Bank Outlook: Challenges and Opportunities in 2021 and Beyond

Abrigo

Takeaway 2 Community banks are at a crossroads: innovate or be left behind (or acquired). Community bank” typically refers to financial institutions under $10 billion in assets and a focus on their local communities, although there are no explicitly stated criteria. Community banks are critical to ag lending and small business lending.

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War-Gaming The Future Of Small-Dollar Lending

PYMNTS

This has the potential to decimate an entire industry,” one payday lending executive told PYMNTS shortly after the rules dropped. “By And if one were to ask their Magic 8-Ball about the fate of those payday lending regs, the answer one would most likely get at this point is “Ask again later.”.

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Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention

PYMNTS

Sure, there was a slight lingering concern that a glitch in how the world’s PCs were programmed might accidentally bring on the tech-pocalypse affectionately referred to as Y2K. Uncertainty breeds entrepreneurship, [and] the people who rise from that are the entrepreneurs and innovators who spot the pattern much more so than others.

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Why Openness Is Critical to the Future of Banking

Jack Henry

Headlines with references to “Open APIs” and “Shared Data” continue to appear in inboxes and popular topics with industry reports. As we speak, tech behemoths like Google and Amazon continue to take an innovative approach to customer engagement and expansion. Consumers clearly want freedom, flexibility, and choice.