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Tag: Loan Growth


Capital and Risk, Credit

Smart Ways to Find Loan Growth

October 1, 2021

Via: Bank Director

In a long career focused on credit risk, I’ve never found myself saying that the industry’s biggest lending challenge is finding loans to make. But no one can ignore the lackluster and even declining demand for new loans pervading most […]


Capital and Risk, Credit

Motivation for Mergers Will Grow as Interest Rates, Loan Growth Stay Low

August 20, 2021

Via: Bank Director

The pace of announced mergers among rated U.S. banks has accelerated and is likely to gain steam. The limited prospect of material loan growth makes asset growth via mergers and acquisitions increasingly attractive. And as we anticipated, more banks are […]


Capital and Risk, Credit

Why Your Bank Should Be Watching Amazon

August 1, 2017

Via: Bank Director

Could Amazon be a threat to banks? The online retailer announced in June that its Amazon Lending program, a small-business loan service that the company began offering in 2011, had surpassed $3 billion in loans globally, to more than 20,000 […]