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For Community Banks, Big Business From Small Business Credit Cards

PYMNTS

Think small, goes the saying, to effect big change. For community banks serving small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs), training an eye on credit cards can translate into additional revenue streams and tap into an unmet need for those SMBs. There’s a lot of runway here.

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Bringing Underwriting Up to Speed

Lending Front

Yet for small business loan requests, many lenders are still relying on manual processes to identify worthy entrepreneurs seeking funding. . What would it take to get small business lending up to speed? . And those applicants that do make it through are met with stringent lending criteria that favors large businesses.

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PayNet Links Community Bank BNB To Small Biz Loan Tech

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Small business credit analysis company PayNet is linking up with a community bank to streamline SMB lending for the institution. In another statement, BNB Bank EVP and Chief Lending Officer Kevin L. “Now, small businesses are stepping in to get a piece of the pie.”

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This Week In Payments: Saving Small Business

PYMNTS

The first half of 2020 has been rough on small businesses of all kinds, whether they had to close their doors due to public-health orders or had to relocate their staff to working from home virtually overnight. It’s required lots of on-the-spot innovation as firms had to massively rethink their operations from the ground up.

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Community Banks Aim To Amplify Competitive Edge With FinTechs

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As this trend unfolds, though, there is another player in the small business lending space that still stands to disrupt the industry even if it isn’t grabbing as many headlines. Community banks approved 49 percent of SMB loan applications in November, according to the latest data from the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index.

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How Lenders Can Better Support Small Business Growth in their Communities

FICO

Small business credit access grew in 2018 and with modifications to the Small Business Administration (SBA) rules for more streamlined processing, access is predicted to grow. However, untapped opportunities for growth remain for startups and minority owned businesses as suggested in SBA research.

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How to Merge the Art and Science of Small Business Lending

FICO

There is an art to small business and commercial and industrial (C&I) lending. Underwriters across the financial spectrum of banks, credit unions, and independents do a great job of mitigating risk when dealing with large, complex lending requests. Smaller dollar loans are much different.