Abrigo

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Takeaway 3 With effective technology, the bank can continue to grow its portfolio without necessarily adding staff. For smaller banks, longer-term industry consolidation trends and competition are also eroding deposit market share. Balance runoff is picking up speed, according to financial consulting firm Curinos.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

New Jersey-based financial institution Investors Bank has announced a collaboration with online small business lending firm OnDeck to digitize its own small to medium-sized business (SMB) lending operations. The companies announced their collaboration in a press release Monday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Avant’s consumer-facing product is devised as a digital alternative to that market. We’re also a pure-play technology company, designed to support banks [that] want to offer lending products, but … either can’t or won’t dedicate hundreds of millions to building the capacity,” he said. A Better Option For Banks.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in recent years thanks to digital and mobile technology, along with online marketplace models. So-called peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has certainly faced challenges in certain markets.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has, as finews.asia reported this past week, amended its credit risk management guidelines in a way that seeks to boost the embrace of analytics when lending to smaller firms. Cash invested on the platform, said the company, stands at $2.7

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It’s no accident that technology companies that have historically not operated in the financial services space are expanding into the small business lending arena. While the Southeast Asia region tends to get lumped together, Mehrotra said each market is unique, with two main groups of developed and developing countries.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Lending Tech With Almost Steady Grades (Even With Rough Semesters). Mortgage services provider ICE acquired mortgage services provider Black Knight bringing together the two largest providers in the space.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

This week, Cellulant – an Africa-focused payments services firm – is announcing a big play to build the comprehensive “catch-all app” for consumers in the African market. It was the right step for its time – but times have changed, and the market within the continent has both broadened and diversified.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Silicon Valley Bank , a unit of SVB Financial Group , revealed plans to invest a minimum of $200 million to supply loans to Danish technology companies. Our expansion into Denmark is a key milestone for SVB, and underscores our commitment to the European technology landscape. Platts said that Silicon Valley Bank will use its U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

The bank is one of several newly proposed community banks in the region, with goals of disrupting the financial services landscape, including business and corporate banking. is set to see its first new community bank in decades, as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) lent its approval for MOXY Bank to launch in Washington, D.C.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This week's look at the most recent initiatives in partnerships and open banking reveals a focus on SMB lending and finance, while Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) also gains traction to allow non-banks to offer their own banking services to corporate customers. HSBC is adopting Biz2Credit 's Bix2X Platform to streamline its SMB lending processes.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

In a partnership formed recently with Puerto Rico’s Oriental Bank, Biz2Credit said late last month that it has begun offering its digital lending platform to the bank’s commercial clients. Drilling down a bit into the Puerto Rico market in particular, Arora noted some differences between small business lending versus, say, the United States.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 30, 2016

Last week, I participated in a Finextra webinar on the topic of “Connected Credit and Compliance for Lending Growth” with panelists from ING, Vertus Partners, Misys and Credits Vision. Cost of compliance. Changing client expectations. Competition from new entrants.

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FICO

JULY 9, 2021

The pandemic and associated economic uncertainty have made the landscape for card lending even more challenging, with the need to shape an effective strategy for engagement with all of their customers. Today’s prescreening solutions are very manual in nature, typically involving a list processing agreement with a credit bureau.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The company provides customers with trust system and identity solutions to aid in the areas of eCommerce and lending, particularly in terms of credibility. South Asia is the fastest-growing market in FinTech and eCommerce, according to Credify. The area is projected to be a $72 billion market for FinTech in 2020, at an CAGR of 72.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2019

B-North wants to disrupt the £154 billion UK business lending market. The majority of SME lending is via the big High Street banks and our experience shows they often use outdated ‘legacy’ systems, rigid lending policies, and faceless, centralized processing centers. percent in equity at a £14,247,942 ($18.7

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

challenger bank B-North has tapped two FinTechs to power its small business lending and banking operations. B-North described this kind of integration across all three firms as “a market first.”. B-North unlocks real benefits by harnessing the best technologies and combining them with our unique regional origination approach. “We

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Social, political, and environmental pressures have made the LatAm market highly volatile. This has caused some investors to pull back in the region and challenged startups to raise funding from new investors, as illustrated further below by the number of unique investors and startups in the LatAm fintech market. LatAm Fintech.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Alternative lending was the golden child among investors around 2015, but lately, the industry seems to have fallen out of favor thanks to regulatory uncertainty and questions over the viability of some business models. Alternative Lending. This week alone saw two examples of those concerns in action: One U.S. lawmaker, Rep.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Not one of the four alternative lending startups that secured investments this week were from the U.S. Alternative Lending. Late last week, South Africa’s LulaLend brought some rare attention to the nation’s alternative lending space. There’s talk that alternative finance is dead. Well, in the U.S.,

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Abrigo

APRIL 21, 2023

Focus loan reviews on risk in the portfolio Continuous loan review monitoring helps banks and credit unions ensure credit review systems support safe and sound lending. discussed how they use continuous monitoring in their efforts to ensure safe and sound lending practices.

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Lending Risk Management Software System 195

PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Soon after Lending Club revealed its ex-CEO may have artificially inflated the company’s lending volumes, the U.S. Treasury Department released its report on the sector and concluded that the market would likely benefit from greater oversight from regulators. Alternative Lending. Commercial Banking. D3 Banking.

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ABA Community Banking

JANUARY 8, 2020

As banking becomes ever more technology-driven, many banks are shifting from a mindset that puts big tech projects off to one side to one that embraces ongoing innovation, development and deployment. Regions Bank exemplifies the latter mindset.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2016

Marketplace lending has grown in popularity and so has the CFPB’s own knowledge of a variety of lenders in the market,” said Lucy Morris, a partner at Hudson Cook and the CFPB’s former deputy enforcement director. The CFPB has been pursuing this quietly for some time.

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FICO

JULY 9, 2021

The pandemic and associated economic uncertainty have made the landscape for card lending even more challenging, with the need to shape an effective strategy for engagement with all of their customers. Today’s prescreening solutions are very manual in nature, typically involving a list processing agreement with a credit bureau.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

That’s the opinion of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which earlier this week said technology would be one of the underpinnings of getting lending to increase to SMEs, a group that would naturally benefit from improved access to capital. banking system needs a bit of jostling. In the U.K.,

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FICO

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The room for expansion is extensive and I don’t think it will take extraordinary measures in order to increase that market share significantly. I would like to examine what I think ‘small banks’ (community banks, regional banks, and credit unions) can do to capture more market share of the small business lending market.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The four intended to start a new marketplace software product for the Latin America region. And the company plans to offer a wide diversity of financial services, with new lending services based on revenue added to the payment processing it already offers, according to reports.

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America Regional Lending Online 215

PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Regulation has undoubtedly acted as a catalyst to major financial services trends in areas like small business (SMB) lending, faster payments and, most recently, open banking and collaboration with FinTechs. In its Global Banking Outlook 2018 survey , EY assessed 221 financial institutions across 29 markets. Optimism Up.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Netherlands payments firm PayU is acquiring a majority equity stake in PaySense , at a valuation of $185 million, with the intention of merging it with Indian consumer lending business LazyPay , PayU announced on Friday (Jan. Digital lending in India is a $1 trillion opportunity over the next five years, according to estimates from BCG. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

The only way to predict what the emerging payments trends are for today is to seek out the one group of people who has the power to control the entire market: consumers. But, of course, no two consumers are exactly alike – especially when comparing consumers across different regions of the world. ” The Highlights.

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Abrigo

JULY 14, 2023

Takeaway 2 Do you have the right technology to efficiently generate strategic insights now and on an ongoing basis? For example, say your management and board’s strategy for the upcoming year is to grow the CRE loan portfolio by 10%, and the institution needs to consider expanding into new markets to achieve this goal.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Creation of the new unit would be part of a much larger overhaul of the financial technology company and subject to approval by Chinese authorities, who pulled the plug on the company’s massive initial public offering late last year, according to Bloomberg. Ant currently has two lending units that handle consumer loans, Huabei and Jiebei.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

In markets like Southeast Asia, high rates of credit-invisible, underbanked small businesses make filling the small business credit gap an even more difficult challenge. In Southeast Asian markets, banks’ lack of adequate data on SMB loan applicants is perhaps the tallest barrier to connecting SMBs to capital in the region.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Meanwhile, technology changes continued at a breakneck pace, with generative AI the biggest topic around management tables. The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Rather, the difference could be seen in just how significantly technology disruption has slammed its way into bankers’ discussions regarding shareholder value. At the same time, Michaud shared compelling data concerning just how big players like PayPal and Square have become relative to the market caps of traditional banks.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

This region has the kind of energy that draws people to a place and helps them and their businesses thrive. The state is growing an impressive technology roster, for example. That year, installations further south, in the region that includes Brownsville and Corpus Christi, supported an estimated 41,000 jobs and contributed about $4.6

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