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Heartland in Iowa Exits Small Business Lending Fund

American Banker

Heartland Financial USA in Dubuque, Iowa, has exited the Small Business Lending Fund.

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What Is Powering The Emerging Pawnaissance?

PYMNTS

While short-term lending in general has a pretty rough reputation, the pawn loan is the most ill-regarded arena in an already unloved category of consumer lending. The loan amount a borrower can get from a pawnbroker is determined solely by the value of the item itself; as in most forms of short-term lending, there is no credit check.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

PYMNTS

This week it was Minnesota, and then yesterday Walmart really got warmed up and announced the expansion of their new payments service in: Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington, D.C. Online lending .

Lending 101
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CFPB June 2016 complaint report highlights consumer loan complaints, complaints from Arkansas consumers

CFPB Monitor

In addition, in March 2016, the CFPB began taking complaints about marketplace lending and added loans obtained from marketplace lenders to the consumer loan category. The report does not specifically identify any complaints as involving marketplace lending.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

According to the CFPB, the new members “include experts in consumer protection, financial services, community development, fair lending, civil rights, consumer financial products or services, representatives of community banks and credit unions, and scholars with relevant methodological and subject matter experience.”

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Addressing The Symptoms Of Pharmacies’ Cash Flow Ailments

PYMNTS

This kind of small business is a dying breed: recent stats from the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis at the University of Iowa found more than 16 percent of independent pharmacies shuttered their doors between March 2003 and March 2018, according to Washington Post reports.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2019 Edition

Jeff For Banks

They do have a traditional community bank with only 10 branches sprinkled in and around either Sioux Falls or Des Moines, Iowa. On the lending side they provide customized business capital solutions nationally for small and mid-sized businesses with innovative lending to niche markets. They are a $6.2

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