Abrigo

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Personalized Touch with Efficient Service Can Boost Lending Banks and credit unions can boost business lending by combining a relationship focus with transaction-oriented processing. . Indeed, some bankers are already giving up spreads in order to win loans, according to the January Fed Senior Loan Officer Survey.

Lending 195

Lending St. Louis Community Survey 195

Abrigo

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Loan Decisioning Allows Small Business Lending to Grow Community financial institutions can leverage automated loan underwriting to increase small business lending and achieve consistency. . Takeaway 2 Loan decisioning allows institutions to efficiently allocate credit analysts’ time for profitable small business lending.

Lending 195

Lending Community Bank Community Analysis 195

Abrigo

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Find commercial real estate risks in the loan portfolio Sound risk management practices in commercial real estate lending help lenders manage CRE credit losses and protect the portfolio's profitability. LISTEN Takeaway 1 Effective CRE risk management involves adapting to changing market fundamentals to avoid excessive loan losses.

Risk Management 195

Risk Management Management Lending Capital 195

Abrigo

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Key Takeaways Commercial real estate lending will be a top focus for many financial institutions in 2020. Real Estate Market Outlook. These expectations for CRE growth are reiterated in a soon-to-be released survey of just over 300 bankers by Abrigo. The Mortgage Bankers Association expects 9% growth in CRE originations in 2020.

Lending 195

Lending Trends FDIC Survey 195

Abrigo

JULY 20, 2021

From leveraging PPP technology to building relationships, reasons for boosting SBA lending are numerous. . Takeaway 1 SBA lending can expand your product offerings to help win deals with prospects and existing business customers or members. Why SBA Lending? Would you like others articles like this in your inbox? 1 and Sept.

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Lending FDIC Capital Risk Management 195

Abrigo

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Start with a survey and pre-planning meetings. The following steps can help narrow it down and focus your goals: Send out a simple, future-oriented survey to the board and executive management (read on for sample questions) to determine strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to your financial institution. Where are you now?

Lending 221

Lending Risk Management Meeting Survey 221

CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2022

The CFPB is seeking comments on changes to its semi-annual Terms of Credit Card Plans (TCCP) Survey. Amendments to the Truth in Lending Act made in 1988 by the Fair Credit and Charge Card Disclosure Act require the CFPB to conduct the TCCP Survey. The TCCP Survey dates are January 31 and July 31.

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Survey Cards Community Data 78

Abrigo

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Takeaway 2 Advisors recommend that financial institutions look behind some of the headlines and examine their own markets before ruling out CRE altogether. Critical capital Should CRE lending be off the table? But understanding trends in their own portfolios and local markets can allow lenders to identify risk-appropriate CRE credits.

Risk Management 221

Risk Management Management Lending Capital 221

PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2017

Freshbooks VP of Strategy Matthew Baker highlighted these findings in a chat with PYMNTS to weave through the research and sound off on some of the survey results that most caught his attention. It’s a large responsibility, but as Freshbooks’ survey found, many small business owners are learning how to operate with a trial-and-error mindset.

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Survey Lending Resources Report 102

Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In fact, 70% of bank executives and directors said their institutions had implemented or upgraded an application or technology specific to PPP loans, according to Bank Director’s new 2020 Technology Survey. Leveraging tech for SBA lending after PPP. Indeed, only about 1,700 lenders participated in the SBA’s 7(a) program in fiscal 2019.

Lending 195

Lending Risk Management Technology Survey 195

Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In fact, 70% of bank executives and directors said their institutions had implemented or upgraded an application or technology specific to PPP loans, according to Bank Director’s new 2020 Technology Survey. Leveraging tech for SBA lending after PPP. Indeed, only about 1,700 lenders participated in the SBA’s 7(a) program in fiscal 2019.

Lending 195

Lending Training Technology Survey 195

PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

A survey of bank officers published on Monday (Aug. Banks, on balance, reported that their lending standards on C&I loans are currently at the easier end of the range of standards between 2005 and the present,” the report said. central bank about whether it will affect the stability of the financial markets.

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Survey Lending Trends Cards 109

Abrigo

JUNE 12, 2015

Agricultural lenders are reporting increases in non-performing farms loans and decreased farmland values, according to the latest Agricultural Lender Survey conducted by the Kansas State University Department of Agricultural Economics. Respondents’ primary service territories were throughout the U.S.,

Survey 150

Survey Kansas Kansas City Lending 150

PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

The Financial Stability Board says Basel III rules have not led to a squeeze of the small business bank lending market, according to reports on Friday (June 7). The FSB announced Friday the findings of its analysis of Basel III regulations on the small business lending space.

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Lending Capital Regulation Survey 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

One area of impact is small business finance and lending, with small businesses and lenders seeing a slowdown in demand. Small business lending platform Funding Circle commented on this effect in its latest earnings data, noting that there has been “some deterioration” in its higher-risk small business loan bands in the U.K.

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Lending US Capital Data 144

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And in leveraging Amazon’s scale as a platform — with millions of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and even micro-sized businesses hawking pretty much everything under the sun — it might seem a “slam dunk” if, say, a financial industry powerhouse were looking to bring small business loans to a new market. The Challenge.

Lending 146

Lending Apple Study Online 146

PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

When it comes to small business (SMB) lending, the top two contenders for business owners are banks and alternative financiers or online marketplaces. The SBA and NCUA collaboration is a three-year agreement that aims to build upon that momentum, and heighten CUs’ share of the SMB lending market.

Lending 129

Lending Analytics Data Security 129

Abrigo

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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.

How To 195

How To Lending Software Survey 195

Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Assessing best practices, rates, marketing efforts and more can position loan producers for future success in unpredictable market conditions. Banks need to evaluate the type of markets they are in today, where they have good market share and where they don’t. Learning about lending. Double down in core markets.

Lending 103

Lending Strategy Community Bank Community 103

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

A new survey from alternative lender Reliant Funding found only 12 percent of surveyed small businesses (SMBs) have actually used alternative finance. 14) and found, more often than not, small businesses aren’t using alternative lending sources. The company released the results Tuesday (Nov.

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Survey Lending Tools Examples 116

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that financial regulators should look more closely at the role of non-bank tech companies in the small business (SMB) lending and consumer lending markets. Such alternative data, said the GAO, could pose risk to such lending decisions. Sandboxes, Gathering Steam.

Lending 150

Lending Fintech Data Wyoming 150

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Australia is now the Asia Pacific region’s second-largest alternative finance market, largely due to a favorable regulatory climate, according to new KPMG analysis. The Australian market is quickly becoming a hotbed of alternative lending , and new analysis from KPMG suggests it has risen up in the ranks.

Lending 100

Lending Regional Analysis Survey 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Necessity is the mother of invention.

Lending 148

Lending Innovation Fintech Cards 148

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Small business (SMB) lending is big business for community banks , which are a popular destination for small business borrowers, thanks to strong approval rates on loan applications. But new analysis from the Federal Reserve has identified a reversal in community banks’ position in the small business lending market.

Community Bank 108

Community Bank Community Lending Survey 108

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Yet, the small business lending gap remains. In a new report, PayNet and financial research firm Raddon examined the state of small business lending in the U.S. “What we didn’t know until this study was the size of the credit market for small businesses. For banks, the reason often comes down to profits.

Lending 159

Lending Fintech Capital Report 159

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

That’s bad news for some of the largest FIs, despite a recent uptick in small business lending activity. The 2017 report from FIS surveyed nearly 500 SMEs in the U.S. PYMNTS examines some of the most telling data from the survey below. -14% with revenues up to $500 million.

Survey 112

Survey Community Bank Community Regional 112

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.

Lending 195

Lending Risk Management Software System 195

BankUnderground

JULY 20, 2022

In a recent paper we explore the effect on bank lending by combining data on exposure to negative rates with banks’ balance sheets, the Spanish credit register and firms’ balance sheets. This effect was especially strong for undercapitalised banks and lending to risky firms. Why might negative rates work differently?

Policies 87

Policies Lending Capital Study 87

PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

Traditional institutions are picking up steam in their efforts to collaborate with alternative financiers and FinTech firms, largely viewed as a way to spin the competition into allies and upgrade their lending services without the burden of in-house R&D. The Fed’s survey — of top bank officers at 72 domestic banks and 22 U.S.

Lending 100

Lending Survey National Trends 100

FICO

MARCH 22, 2022

The pandemic impacted the financial situation of SME’s in various ways, including the need to suddenly adopt digital banking channels, arrange repayment deferrals and of course an increased need for lending; a need which is increasingly being targeted by new lenders offering a simplified digital lending process.

Lending 52

Lending System Regional Survey 52

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

A new survey has revealed the steep plummet the consumer credit market took as the pandemic began, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported. 21) from its latest Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) Credit Access Survey , which showed most credit applications and acceptance rates falling sharply after February this year.

New York 299

New York Survey Cards Lending 299

Abrigo

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Takeaway 2 In an Abrigo survey, nearly 2 out of 3 FIs said at least some of the loan review process is performed in-house. Financial institutions with strong, independent loan review can react more quickly to changes in the market, according to Ancin Cooley , principal of Synergy Bank Consulting and Synergy Credit Union Consulting.

Risk Management 195

Risk Management Lending Survey Report 195

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Demand for corporate finance helped propel China’s banks to new lending records in November, according to news from Reuters on Monday (Dec. An earlier survey from Reuters found analysts predicted new yuan loans in November to hit 800 billion, up from October’s figure of 663.2 Chinese banks provided $169.27 billion yuan.

Lending 100

Lending New York Regulation Survey 100

Abrigo

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Support credit risk management Understanding loan covenants, when financial institutions should use them, and how to monitor them supports strong lending portfolios and credit risk management best practices. Covenants are warranted in commodity financing and floor-plan lending deals, Kirby added.

Risk Management 221

Risk Management Lending Policies Management 221

Abrigo

MAY 18, 2023

The guidance expects the scope to consider current market conditions (soaring lumber and construction materials prices, the pandemic, cybercriminals shutting down oil pipelines) that may impact a borrower’s current or future ability to repay the loan. This certainly qualifies loan review as a high-scope activity.

Lending 195

Lending Training Guidelines Policies 195

Abrigo

APRIL 22, 2024

Recent dynamics of the small business lending market A deep understanding of the small business lending landscape and potential efficiencies can help banks and credit unions grow their portfolios. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending.

Lending 243

Lending St. Louis Community Marketing 243

PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

Prudential Financial is gearing up to release findings from what it said is one of the largest ever surveys of financial experiences and behaviors among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. In a press release , the financial services company said the findings will be released on Aug. That dovetails well with international trends.

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Survey Trends Lending National 100