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Study Affirms Community Banks’ Small-Biz Leadership

Finer Points

It’s something ICBA and the community banking industry say all the time: community banks are the nation’s leading small-business lenders. And the numbers back it up. While community banks make up less than 20 percent of the banking system’s assets, they dole out more than half of its small-business loans.

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How to Win Small Business Loans This Year

Abrigo

Making small business loans efficient and worthwhile Digitalizing the lending process can help financial institutions win small business loans and meet customers' needs. You might also like this webinar on small business lending best practices. Top problems in small business lending. Roadblocks to Success.

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FinTech Credit: Not So Clear And Present Danger?

PYMNTS

As noted by Forbes , the study found that a minority — make that 26 percent — of regulatory agencies surveyed by the FSB actually have definitions of FinTech lending in place. Those definitions stretch across peer-to-peer (P2P) lending or marketplace lending, for example.

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Are You Properly Utilizing Your Team’s Skills?: A Chief Lending Officer Case Study [VIDEO]

The Emmerich Group

I’m always astonished how difficult we make the chief lending officer’s job. A Chief Lending Officer Case Study [VIDEO] appeared first on The Emmerich Group. Continue Reading. The post Are You Properly Utilizing Your Team’s Skills?:

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Fast EMV, Mobile Starbucks And Under-Fire Payday Lending

PYMNTS

Visa is determined to make EMV faster, Starbucks wants to make getting that cuppa joe faster, too, and is crushing it with mobile order ahead and the CFPB might be moving closer to having a fast exodus of the payday lending business once its rules drop. The CFPB’s Latest Round Of Payday Lending Complaints. EMV’s Second Phase.

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Improving Small Business Lending: Q&A with Ascentium

FICO

I recently had the chance to speak with Chris Miller, VP of Decision Analytics at Ascentium, on how the company makes quick lending decisions for its small business customers. Our leadership team had experience using SBSS at previous institutions and liked it. Please tell me a bit more about Ascentium Capital and what makes you unique?

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The importance of peer benchmarking

Abrigo

It is crucial for leadership at a bank to understand how the bank compares on key metrics to those institutions considered peers. While those aren’t necessarily bad choices for building peer groups, they may not be the best metrics either.

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