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Navigating RBI’s 2025 Gold Loan Directives with our Comprehensive Loan Management System

M2P Fintech

With the gold loan market continuing to expand, particularly in rural and semi-urban India, this framework focuses on improving underwriting, valuation, collateral safety, and end-use transparency. Additionally, the enforcement of the 75% Loan-to-Value (LTV) cap was uneven, and risk weights were incorrectly applied.

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Closing Latin America’s $350B SMB Trade-Finance Gap

PYMNTS

Many of these mid-cap level enterprises have already had strong relationships with banks and lenders. During the pandemic, said Shoihet, banks are already grappling with legacy credit infrastructure, and overworked underwriting teams doing their jobs from home with limited bandwidth.

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

PYMNTS

A California statue caps interest to an annual rate of 37 percent a year but out-of-state banks have figured out how to sidestep the law and use rates allowable where they are headquartered. Utah has no caps on interest rates. “A ” An uprush in predatory lending has prompted more states to institute interest rate caps.

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IPOs Dominate The Unicorns

PYMNTS

There’s also an additional allotment of Class A stock should the demand materialize, for up to 2 million shares, which can be bought by the underwriters. Interestingly, even at that top of the new range, should pricing remain there, at the close of the day, the market cap of $1.8

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Banking Innovation Enters New Era; Consolidation Now The Rule

PYMNTS

These are $100 billion market cap companies that are sitting in the middle of the payments supply chain.”. That suddenly opened up the market for FinTechs to offer targeted slivers of traditional banks’ financial services, like loan underwriting or debit accounts. These aren't small companies or digital innovators,” he noted.

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FinTechs Help Banks Ease The PPP Lending Pain

PYMNTS

Wells Fargo said the Fed’s cap on growth limited its ability to provide PPP financing. Below, PYMNTS looks at the FinTechs that are collaborating with SMBs and banks to ease friction of the PPP lending process, whether by digitizing applications, supporting underwriting, or streamlining data collection. Bottomline Technologies.

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Lawsuit Claims Lyft’s IPO Was Intentionally Overvalued

PYMNTS

Bloomberg reported there are two class-action lawsuits against the company, as well as against underwriters, officers and directors. “Lyft’s market cap was a bit lighter by the end of the day on April 12, too: $17 billion versus the $23 billion it enjoyed, albeit briefly, on its first day as a public company,” she said.

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