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How Relationship Lending & A Transaction-Oriented Focus Can Win More Business Loans

Abrigo

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. . This competition can only increase as the lending landscape continues to shift.

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Is commercial lending on the rise?

Independent Banker

Loan providers share an infectious enthusiasm and growing optimism for one vertical’s prospects in 2022: commercial lending. Here’s how community bankers can take advantage of various sectors—including SBA lending—over the next 12 months. anticipates a low double-digit increase in its commercial lending in 2022. Quick Stat.

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5 ways to shake up your lending strategy

Independent Banker

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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FICO Kicks Off Consumer Financial Education Program, “Score A Better Future”

FICO

Last week, FICO kicked off its Score A Better Future program with a community event focused on credit education at Harris-Stowe State University in St. We partnered with a number of organizations focused on financial education and empowerment initiatives to bring the initial event together, including Justine PETERSEN , a St.

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Claim: Racial Disparities Rampant in Three Midwest Metro Areas

American Banker

Mortgage originators aren't lending enough to people of color or the poor in the St. Louis, Milwaukee and Minneapolis metropolitan areas, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition said.