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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

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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Helping Investors Avoid The Lending Club Trap

PYMNTS

Online lending as a business model has taken some lumps over the last several months, with Lending Club (and investors) only the most visible casualty of alleged fraud. As for questions surrounding the viability of these online lending platforms, as posited by Webster, Moore said the model exists as one that is here to stay.

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Goldman, JetBlue Team Up On Installment Loan Product

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Marcus , the online-only consumer banking and lending arm of Goldman Sachs, offers personal loans with no late fees of up to $10,000, with rates ranging from 10.99 The deal follows JetBlue’s announcement that it has temporarily consolidated service in Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

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Could COVID-19 Cause A Banking And Commercial Real Estate Crisis?

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Twelve years after the housing and mortgage markets’ collapse threw the United States into financial distress not seen since the Great Depression, market watchers are again on the lookout for a possible new banking crisis spawned by upheaval in the U.S. commercial real estate sector. No Quick Fix. More Than Just Hotels Are in Trouble.

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Chipotle Continues To Experiment With Revamped Menu

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As a result, the QSR will experiment by rolling out five menu items at its New York City-based NEXT test kitchen to make adjustments before bringing the items to more stores. The challenge will be how to bring in the new items without slowing down the assembly line. “As

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Strategies for fighting remote authentication fraud

Independent Banker

As more customers moved online, fraudsters took advantage of new and increasingly inventive opportunities to commit remote authentication fraud. Since the pandemic started, Crowe says, more customers are opening online or mobile accounts and making remote payments. Online U.S. By Elizabeth Judd.

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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: New Expansions, Partnerships And Reorganizations

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According to reports out earlier this week, Goldman Sachs and Amazon are in discussions about possibly partnering for small and medium-sized (SMB) business lending in the U.S. The partnership would apply Goldman’s lending technology to SMB loans on Amazon’s underwriting platform, according to unnamed sources.

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