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Today In Retail: L’Occitane’s US Division Files For Chapter 11; AutoFi Rolls Out Division For Corporate Clients

PYMNTS

In today’s top retail news, the U.S. division of L’Occitane has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, while AutoFi is shifting into high gear with the debut of its “lending as a service” division. Plus, a new Federal Reserve Bank of New York study finds that individuals anticipate that the economy will rebound by next year.

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How To Do Better Against National Bank Lending Competition

South State Correspondent

Who the competition is, what the lending competition is offering, their delivery channels, and service levels can help community banks differentiate their services and enhance their competitive advantage. Unfortunately, banking is challenging to study, and some banks inadvertently ignore their significant competitors.

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Digital financial services to generate $38b in southeast Asia, study finds

Bank Innovation

Digital financial services from lending to asset management are expected to generate at least $38 billion of annual revenue across Southeast Asia by 2025, more than tripling from $11 billion in 2019, according to a new study by Bain & Co., Online lending will comprise about half that total for […].

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RBI Study Warns Banks Of Ad Hoc Tactics To Inflate Lending Rates

PYMNTS

A report out by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) warns banks across the country that their “ad hoc” processes to inflate lending rates or prevent them from falling is having an adverse effect on small- and medium-sized business (SMB) borrowers. Most of the base rate customers are retail or small and medium enterprise borrowers.

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Why It Is Critical to Update Your Core Deposit Study

Abrigo

retail rates will probably go higher since we are in a tight liquidity situation. In some markets, retail deposit rates are still catching up to the past increases on the wholesale side. Time to update to the core deposit study? There are a number of reasons why financial institutions should update their core deposit studies.

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Study reveals the lack of adoption of open banking into commercial lending

The Paypers

An international study of over 1,000 senior professionals in the banking, lending, PFM, investment, and retail sectors has revealed the lack of adoption of open banking into commercial lending.

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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

Critical capital Should CRE lending be off the table? Recent headlines may lead bankers to believe that shunning commercial real estate lending is the safest path to limit or avoid credit risk, given stresses on CRE and regulatory concerns. I'm not saying go out and make every retail loan that you can get your hands on,” he said.