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Which loan types are fueling bank growth?

Abrigo

Which areas of lending and what banks are driving the expansion? A recent issue of Banking Insights , published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, revealed the answers by analyzing call reports of all U.S. Agricultural lending represents two percent, and all other loan types represent the remaining 12 percent.

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Fed Casting Wary Eye On FinTech Firms’ Infrastructure Access?

PYMNTS

which have been looking into the ways that licenses and charters can be granted to FinTechs to help them offer lending and other services nationwide. Those regulators state that such services can be brought to thus-far underserved areas, and might boost lending to small businesses.

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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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Excited To Help People

Independent Banker

Central Region Award Recipient. When Gowen first arrived at Merchants & Planters in 1983 to serve as its president and senior lending officer, the bank had two branches and $47 million in assets. In 1998, the bank became one of the first financial institutions in the St. Jim Gowen, Merchants & Planters Bank.

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