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US Regulators To Reward Banks For Low-Income Lending

PYMNTS

Banking regulators on Thursday (March 19) said they are going to give banks credit for letting lower-income Americans borrow money during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by Reuters. Regulators, for their part, said they want to encourage lending.

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5 Big reasons to go digital with SMB & commercial lending

Abrigo

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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Santander Adds Three Lending Executives

PYMNTS

Santander Bank has announced three high-level appointments, two overseeing lending operations and another overseeing marketing, according to a press release. Giancarlo Marchesi was named head of Consumer Lending, a new role at Santander. Patrick Smith was named head of Small Business Banking. Smith holds a B.S.

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Nonbank Lending Hits $52T, With US Assets At $15T

PYMNTS

Nonbank lending – also known as “ shadow banking ” – has seen its assets hit $52 trillion, despite the fact that the sector poses significant risks. In fact, the country’s regulators have gotten tough in recent years, causing outstanding loans in the sector to fall to ¥61.3 While the U.S. trillion ($9.1

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China’s blood on the carpet in P2P lending

Chris Skinner

One other thing struck me as the discussions fired away in Shanghai at Lang Di … is China going to haemorrhage and bring down the world’s financial systems … or is that just what the Western media would like us to think?

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FinTech Jeff Aims To Boost Lending To The Underbanked In South Asia

PYMNTS

With no credit scores, limited financial transaction histories, and a huge amount of people who don’t even have a bank account, lending money in Vietnam is no simple task. While most financiers would run from an environment like that, CEO Toms Niparts of Jeff , an app-based lending platform based in Latvia, saw it as a huge opportunity. “We

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US regulator raises concerns over Apple’s foray into short-term lending | Barclays takes stake in crypto firm Copper | Jack Ma to give up control of Ant

Bussman Advisory

Contact us at info@bussmannadvisory.com for more details. The post US regulator raises concerns over Apple’s foray into short-term lending | Barclays takes stake in crypto firm Copper | Jack Ma to give up control of Ant appeared first on Bussmann Advisory AG. Subscribe now to our weekly newsletter.

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