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How Financial Institutions Focus on Customers Is Key

Abrigo

The session is among several panel discussions and speaker sessions that are part of the Lending + Credit Risk track at the conference, hosted by Abrigo Sept. Stay Up-to-Date On Lending Best Practices. Some financial institutions, such as Vision Bank, have taken steps to speed lending decisions by automating steps of the process.

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From CRE to Corporate Culture – BIG Ideas from 2020 ThinkBIG: Manage Risk. Drive Growth.

Abrigo

For Jill Hudson, VP, Operations Officer at Vision Bank Vision Bank, it was important to learn strategies regarding supporting a strong company culture during this time. Oklahoma-based Vision Bank has experienced rapid growth in recent years and is positioned for further expansion. CRE Lending. Lending & Credit Risk.

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What Is Powering The Emerging Pawnaissance?

PYMNTS

While short-term lending in general has a pretty rough reputation, the pawn loan is the most ill-regarded arena in an already unloved category of consumer lending. The loan amount a borrower can get from a pawnbroker is determined solely by the value of the item itself; as in most forms of short-term lending, there is no credit check.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

Here, we highlight some of last year’s most successful loan producers in the areas of agriculture, commercial and consumer/mortgage lending. The score combines the average of the bank’s percentile rank for lending concentration and for loan growth over the past year in each lending category. By Ed Avis. Methodology. AGRICULTURE.

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Creating a Customer-Centric, Digital Financial Institution

Abrigo

Once only accessible to large financial institutions and digital-only banks, today’s technology affords smaller financial institutions the opportunity to level the playing field by automating the lending process to get money in customers’ hands sooner. Technology, like banking, isn’t “one-size-fits-all.”

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CFPB announces advisory committee members

CFPB Monitor

Nikitra Bailey, EVP, Center for Responsible Lending (Durham, NC). Ronette Hauser-Jones, Mortgage Division President, Great Plains Bank (Oklahoma City, OK). Bruce Ocko, Senior VP Director of Mortgage & Consumer Lending, Bangor Savings Bank (Bangor, ME). Shan Hayes, President and CEO, Heartland Tri-State Bank (Elkhart, KS).

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The United States Of Fintech: The Most Well-Funded Fintech Startup In Each State

CB Insights

Across the US, well-funded companies are rethinking how the financial system operates. California-based lending unicorn SoFi is the most well funded fintech company with just over $2B raised since 2011. LumoXchange (Arkansas, $200k raised) and CreditPoint Software (Oklahoma, $1.1M Click on the image below to enlarge.