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Perficient Included in IDC Market Glance: Lending Digital Transformation Strategies

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While it was once expected and acceptable for lenders to enforce standardized payment due dates and policies, COVID-19 brought the impracticality and ineffectiveness of a “one-size-fits-all” approach to credit and lending to light. The IDC Market Glance offers an overview of the landscape for consumer and small business digital lending.

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Predatory ‘Rent-a-Bank’ Lending Practices Trigger Calls For Regulation

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Consumer advocates are pushing federal banking regulators to do something about rent-a-banks with notoriously sky-high loan rates that prey on people with bad credit, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Wednesday (March 11). ” An uprush in predatory lending has prompted more states to institute interest rate caps.

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5 Big reasons to go digital with SMB & commercial lending

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Automating SMB and commercial lending elevates your customer's experience From making it easier to apply to speeding up loan closings, automation can helps make business lending customers and staff happier. APIs and digital doc prep ease the workload on your SMB and commercial lending staff, too. . Digital lending.

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U.K. Watchdog Proposes New Regulations On Lending Platforms

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watchdog in charge of investor oversight proposed tough new regulations regarding peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms, in a bid to help consumers wade through the new landscape, according to a report by Reuters. has also sought clarity on regulations as a means to better compete against established banks.

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Regulators Support Alternatives To Assess Creditworthiness

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Federal banking regulators support using alternative methods to assess creditworthiness to help high-risk people get loans, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday (Dec. The regulators added that agencies choosing to tap into alternative data should do so judiciously.

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Australia is the Next Largest Market for Alternative Lending, KPMG Says

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Australia has become the second largest market for alternative lending due to the country’s favorable regulations for lenders. This is according to new data by financial regulator KPMG, in tandem with the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, which shows that the market grew over 50% within the last year.

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Currency Comptroller: New Plan Regulating Marketplace Lending

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Comptroller of the Currency said the agency will roll out a new framework for regulating marketplace lending. Curry said officials are studying whether marketplace lending and other related innovations, including digital currencies, raise certain risks and comply with existing laws.

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