The Paycheck Protection Program has highlighted a number of issues in small business banking that could potentially open the door...
Seacoast Banking has partnered with SmartBiz Loans to improve their SBA Lending process; Julie Kleffel, Seacoast’s community banking executive tells...
Rewriting the Community Reinvestment Act is a welcomed sign by banks like Ally Bank who does not use branches and misses out on benefits awarded to banks with branch networks; focusing on where banks lend would be a better way to assess potential credit instead of where the bank is physically located. Source.
A coalition of businesses including Alignable, Fundbox, Gusto, Homebase, Womply, SmallBizDaily.com, Actual.Agency, Business.com and Small Business Edge have announced the...
American Banker shares some of the companies that may stand to benefit from the Equifax hack as identity verification becomes top of mind; Mitek is planning to roll out a new product called Mobile Verify for Lending; other companies that have similar solutions include Trulioo, VixVerify and AuthenticID. Source
GreenSky noted in their end of the year earnings call that their acquisition costs were among the best in the...
Regulation in the US is far different than in China; CredEx is a Chinese company that shares the state of regulation there; Jo Ann Barefoot shares her perspective on regulation in the US, having spent most of her career working in consumer protection and financial inclusion; she believes that we have produced a regulatory system that has high cost and low value which has left consumers confused by products; while not discounting the importance of regulation, Barefoot shares that fintechs can do more to further goals around financial inclusion than regulation can; one area where the US is lagging behind much of the world, specifically China is in mobile adoption and regulators in the US are struggling to keep up as technology quickly changes. Source
A recent research note from Bank Policy Institute shares how big and smaller banks are fairing in the fight for...
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Comply Advantage has found that the majority of businesses are bracing for worsening financial crime in 2023.
Otting said Wednesday to reporters that no firms considering the OCC Fintech Charter have mentioned concerns about the Fed standing...