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RBS Fund Takes Back £50M From Metro Bank

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After Metro Bank recently pulled back from plans to expand and decided to move away from lending for mortgages, the bank said it will return £50 million from the RBS bailout fund, according to a report. Three banks – Metro, Starling and ClearBank – were collectively given £280 million from the RBS bailout fund last year.

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DOJ announces settlement of redlining lawsuit

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The key allegations in the DOJ’s complaint are the following: During the relevant time period (2015-2021), the Newark, New Jersey-Pennsylvania Metro Division (Newark MD) as delineated in 2015 included Essex, Somerset, Union, Sussex, and Morris counties in New Jersey (Newark Lending Area). unlikely to be caused by chance) and sizeable.

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Consumer Lending: Should Banks Do It?

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When I first read Standards Needed for Safe, Small Installment Loans from Banks, Credit Unions by the Pew Charitable Trusts that encouraged financial institutions to get back into small ticket consumer lending, I thought “what are they nuts!” So why would banks expand small-ticket, unsecured personal lending? Real estate secured.

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City Of London Group Announces £15.2M In Funding

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The funding will help the launch a new financial institution called Recognise, with a focus on lending to SMBs. The bank will be launched by Recognise Financial Services, founded by Jason Oakley, the former managing director of Metro Bank ’s commercial and mortgages lending business.

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Philly Consortium Advances ‘Regenerator’ Concept For SMBs

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“As the economy shifts from rescue to reopen, Congress and communities alike need to focus on places rather than just products in the design, finance and delivery of recovery aid,” said Bruce Katz , director of Drexel University’s Nowak Metro Finance Lab. “To

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

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The CFPB has issued its June 2016 complaint report which highlights complaints about consumer loans and complaints from consumers in Arkansas and the Little Rock metro area. 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.

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High-Profile — But Secretive — Funding For B2B FinTechs

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“VCs used 2016 to manage costs, set priorities and valuations,” explained Rahul Khanna, managing partner at Trifecta Capital, in an interview with Business Standard published Wednesday (Dec. They need to manage the burn, drift and cut losses.”. Alt-Lending. and the U.S. round out the rest of the investment activity.

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