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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Can monetary policy cure the ills of an economic slowdown caused by the Coronavirus ? That target was slated to be announced at the National People’s Congress scheduled for early March, which is now delayed. China may be about to find out. According to Zhou Guannan, an analyst at Huachuang Securities Co., News came on Tuesday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2018

China introduced new tax initiatives aimed at bolstering the nation’s entrepreneurs, according to local news reports on Friday (May 4). Vice finance minister Cheng Lihua introduced seven new tax policies during a press conference Friday, with the goal of saving small businesses $9.45 billion a year, reports from Xinhua said.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Under the settlement, Rhinebeck will pay a $950,000 civil money penalty, provide restitution to borrowers, and develop a compliance plan which includes updates to its auto policies to cap dealer markups on installment contracts purchased by the bank. to 2.5% (and up to 3%, in a small number of cases) depending on the term of the contract.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 21, 2022

This decision coincided with rate hikes by the Swiss National Bank, its first since 2007, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank announced at an emergency meeting that they would raise interest rates next month and again in September. For the past 14 years, the monetary policy in the U.S. has been exceedingly loose.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

National economic policy has China cracking down on its shadow banking market, which has also exacerbated small businesses’ struggle to access financing, analysts said. The squeeze is not helping the Chinese economy, with small businesses often playing vital roles in connecting China to the global supply chain.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 4, 2022

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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Department of Treasury finalized rules that apply to SMBs on qualifying for a 20 percent tax deduction, with the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) applauding the initiative. Overall, the top banks saw lending grow by 2.3 Commercial and industrial lending accelerated among the top 25 banks in the U.S.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Particularly for small businesses, community banks should make sure they use up-to-date tools to assess risk, such as relying more heavily on the owner’s personal credit, says Joel Pruis, who leads the commercial and small business lending practice at Cornerstone Advisors in Scottsdale, Ariz. Learning about lending.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2018

A new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center recommended several reforms that would help the U.S. The proposed changes include moving the collection and storage of small business lending data, required under the Dodd-Frank Act , from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to the Office of Financial Research (OFR).

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American Banker

MARCH 15, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is preparing to pick winners and losers in the consumer lending market, stifling innovation and curtailing freedom of choice.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Critical capital Should CRE lending be off the table? Recent headlines may lead bankers to believe that shunning commercial real estate lending is the safest path to limit or avoid credit risk, given stresses on CRE and regulatory concerns. But that might not be the best move for your financial institution or your community.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 17, 2024

The United Nations estimates there are currently 40 million people enslaved around the world, and that one-quarter of them are children. Policies that promote the employment of former trafficking victims can help end cycles of trafficking, as well.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

Backers of the proposal argue that by shaking up the traditional financial system, it can ensure the Swiss National Bank (SNB) is the only one that produces new money in Switzerland, removing fractional reserve banking, which Reuters said is common across the globe. The Swiss National Bank is against the initiative.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 11, 2018

At the Online Lending Policy Institute’s (OLPI) annual summit in Washington, D.C. earlier this week, the OCC’s recent decision to accept applications from non-depository financial technology firms for a special purpose national bank (SPNB) charter was the focus of considerable discussion.

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TheGuardian

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Related: Nationals call for ANZ boycott after bank's push for net zero emissions Related: I changed my banking and super out of climate anxiety. The bank, which had been part of a syndicate of lenders, decided not to participate in the refinancing of hundreds of millions of dollars owed by the port, Guardian Australia has confirmed.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

In fact, according to the SBA’s latest report , corporate finance has largely bounced back in the nation — but small businesses aren’t seeing much of that recovery. There’s been a big rebound in lending to big businesses, but there’s been a very small recovery in lending to small businesses,” said Rebel Cole, Ph.D.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

Changes may soon be coming to the Military Lending Act (MLA), a piece of legislation designed to prevent military service members from getting swept up in deceptive or unfair lending practices. The product causing concern on the auto lending side of things is gap insurance. New Lending Rules .

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

You can’t develop lending expertise overnight. A three-year time horizon isn’t long enough if say you want to take your lending platform nationally such as specializing in lending on robotics. We allocate capital and risk just thinking about the life of our next investment, deposit, or loan. What does matter is strategy.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 8, 2019

The CFPB’s annual fair lending report covering its 2018 activities was published in today’s Federal Register. In addition to discussing the symposium and Data Point report in the section on “Access to Credit,” the new fair lending report discusses conducting supervisory reviews of alternative credit scoring models.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2016

Post-financial crisis, amid economic recovery, financial institutions across the EU have been calling for a cut in capital charges if they are to ramp up their lending, especially to SMEs. The latest figures show levels of bank lending to large corporates has recovered back to pre-crisis levels. Apparently, it hasn’t.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

The central bank did not move to “restrict banks’ dividend policies.” However, it said that “sustaining lending activities should take priority over discretionary distributions,” adding that “the release of capital buffers should not be used to finance share buybacks during this period.”. The fresh round, in the amount of $3.6

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The House committee held a hearing on the idea after Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks in July proposed a new special purpose national banking charter for payments companies. That last measure aims to ensure that banks lend money and provide banking services to underserved and minority consumers.

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Abrigo

JULY 6, 2017

It’s been more than six months since the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) issued its revised member business lending (MBL) rule in January 2017. The NCUA recently updated the Examiner’s Guide to include what it described as a clear framework for supervisory expectations for managing a commercial lending program.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2019

government has over monetary policy. “It It appears that these products may lend themselves to an entirely new global financial system that is based out of Switzerland and intended to rival U.S. monetary policy and the dollar,” the letter stated.

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

” In September 2018, the Bureau proposed significant revisions to its “Policy to Encourage Trial Disclosure Programs” which sets forth the Bureau’s standards and procedures for exempting individual companies, on a case-by-case basis, from applicable federal disclosure requirements to allow those companies to test trial disclosures.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

Chinese regulators are hoping to give a boost to small business (SMBs) lending by telling banks to cut interest rates for SMB borrowers, according to reports in Reuters on Monday (July 9). Small businesses are caught in the crosshairs of that trade war, according to the National Small Business Association in the U.S. percent in March.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Dunkleberg is the former dean of Temple’s School of Business and Management and has served as the Chief Economist for the National Federation of Independent Business since 1971. These insights have the potential to inform the market and policy makers on the overall health of the economy, opportunities, and risk.”. Learn More.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Policy advisers at a leading think tank said that China should introduce a regulatory framework for artificial intelligence in the finance sector, according to a report from Reuters on Sunday (Dec 22). The risk and safety lines with AI in China in the finance sector appear to be blurring.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

On August 27, 2015, the CFPB issued two Technical Reports: one on the National Mortgage Database (NMDB), and the other on the National Survey of Mortgage Borrowers (NSMB). Technical Report 15-01 National Mortgage Database. Technical Report 15-02 National Survey of Mortgage Borrowers. Sutherland.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 21, 2023

Community bankers often lament the COF advantage at national banks – but the numbers do not support this view. Elevated CRE Risks Moody’s points out that the banking sector’s stress was almost exclusively in funding and interest rate risk tied to monetary policy tightening.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Podcasts for Bank & Credit Union Execs & Staff Are Plentiful; Here Are 10 Good Ones These banking podcasts discuss current events, strategic and policy issues, competition, digitalization advice, and more. Lending & Credit Risk. Lending & Credit Risk. And all release a new episode at least monthly. Whitepaper.

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 29, 2015

The CFPB has issued a fair lending report covering its fair lending activities during 2014. The report states that in 2014, CFPB fair lending supervisory and public enforcement actions required institutions to provide approximately $224 million in remediation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Data published by China’s National Bureau of Statistics showed consumer spending gained 50 basis points in August from the year ago period. it will take time and government policy to heal those scars.”. To that end, in China, retail data showed consumers snapped a seven-month streak decline.

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

While the outline addresses an upcoming joint rulemaking to implement quality control requirements for AVMs, the CFPB specifically focuses on the potential for AVMs to pose fair lending risks to homebuyers and homeowners. However, automated valuation models can pose fair lending risks to homebuyers and homeowners.

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 13, 2022

These concerns are often dismissed by consumer advocates with the argument that banks and credit unions will increase their small-dollar lending if other providers leave the market due to interest rate caps. Among the services examined by the GAO in the report is small-dollar lending.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

As a policy matter, we support the Bureau’s goal of ending abusive payday lending practices by nonbank lenders. The Credit Union National Association (CUNA) also said it supports the delay, however, the organization called for a delay of the entire rule.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

Some are worried that the fact that Libra could be tied to several national currencies means that Facebook is trying to avoid being under control from any particular country. . It appears that these products may lend themselves to an entirely new global financial system that is based out of Switzerland and intended to rival U.S.

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