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Fans and Foes of OCC True Lender Rule Spar at Senate Committee “Rent-a-Bank” Hearing

CFPB Monitor

Since the non-bank entity frequently is a fintech, these arrangements often are referred to as bank-fintech partnerships or marketplace lending arrangements. These speakers consistently conflated payday lending and bank-fintech partnership lending, and ignored correction of this mis-characterization by other witnesses.

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Banking Strategies: Should We Look to Utah?

Jeff For Banks

Here is another Industrial Bank that has a specific niche, lending to homeowners for home improvements through construction contractors or home improvement supply dealers. Prudent risk management suggests we should have diversification in our loan portfolio and funding sources. If you could deliver such performance, would you?

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

According to the CFPB, the new members “include experts in consumer protection, financial services, community development, fair lending, civil rights, consumer financial products or services, representatives of community banks and credit unions, and scholars with relevant methodological and subject matter experience.”

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

The Grow-a-Cool-Niche-Award – goes to Bank Newport for creating a national marine lending business and investing to win with more talent, partnerships and technology. Word: Community banks don’t lend on $400 million office buildings in Manhattan and San Francisco. Sounds like a cool strategy to build a smarter bank.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

If you think of teams that take early system adoption risk, manage it well and get an edge on the competition as a result, you probably don’t think first of a $1 billion credit union in Kalamazoo. The workplace a millennial will most confuse with Silicon Valley – Live Oak Bank in North Carolina. Might be time to.

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Fintech Fundings: 22 Companies Raise $300 Million Plus 2 IPOs Raise $5.9 Billion

Fintech Labs Insights

Card rewards management. HQ: Raleigh, North Carolina. Tags: Enterprise, underwriting, credit, lending, analytics, API, Life.SREDA (investor). Source: TechCrunch. Alt-lender to small businesses. HQ: Atlanta, Georgia. Latest round: $135 million at $1 billion valuation. Total raised: $600 million. Source: Finovate.

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Fintech Fundings: 38 Companies Raise $220 Million the Second Week of June

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Wilmington, North Carolina. Tags: SMB, lending, alt-lender, commerical loans, trade finance, billing, invoicing, cash flow. Alt-lender and payments. Latest round: $20.6 million Post-IPO Equity. Total raised: $121.6 million (Post-IPO including $100 million Debt). HQ: Perth, Australia. Source: Crunchbase. Latest round: $17.7