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

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To service Main Street businesses, it’s an obvious advantage for a financial institution to actually be on Main Street. today, only a small fraction offer a fully digital small business lending experience, he said, and that means these players are losing out to their larger rivals. “This is an extraordinary thing.

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Lendified And The SMB/Millennial Connection

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The CEO told PYMNTS that the $20 million credit pact will be earmarked for direct lending and that there is a “multiplier effect” that would come as that money is moved into the economy — enough so that more than $60 million in final funding may result, which could help create new businesses and jobs.

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Mastercard Buys POS Financing Provider Vyze

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Among the main consumer segments targeted by POS financing providers are millennials , in part because they are being left out when it comes to tapping into home equity. As well, Bankrate has estimated that roughly 33 percent of millennials have cards.

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10 Top Banking Podcasts You Should be Listening to

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Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers 8. Banking artificial intelligence (AI), the customer experience, enticing millennials, and change management are among subjects tackled in recent episodes. Lending & Credit Risk. Lending & Credit Risk. Banking Transformed 2. BankTalk 3. Banking with Interest 4.

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PrimeLending Taps AI To Digitize Loans, Speed Up Disbursements

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Both consumers and businesses are exhibiting shifting expectations for how the lending process should work, and many are expressing interest in alternative forms of lending, such as peer-to-peer (P2P) loans. Another study predicted that the P2P lending market will reach nearly $559 billion by 2027 due to this expanded interest.

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What Is Powering The Emerging Pawnaissance?

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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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Credit Unions’ Digital Future: More Like YouTube, Less Like Online Banking

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Digital banking is not the main element that drives consumers toward using a credit union. Millennials, Bridge Millennials and the rapidly up-and-coming Gen Z consumers mostly prefer digital banking as their go-to when they interact. That result, Chambers noted, is just an average.

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