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Is Granting Credit Terms Worth the Risk?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Whether it’s fair to blame climate change or not, heightened awareness of natural disasters has amplified fears about supply chain disruptions—fears also exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic and the near collapse of the financial system in 2008. Do you need help assessing customer credit risks? Is their data secure?

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Here’s what you need to know about marketplace lending vs. direct lending

Credibly

The future of lending When the 2008 Great Recession brought economic decline, traditional banks began to tighten lending restrictions. Marketplace lending, also referred to as platform lending, rose to prominence after the 2008 recession when both the need for financing and frustration with the lack of access to that financing grew.

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Is 2016 the year for bank M&A?

Abrigo

For banks that have not acquired or merged since 2008, the top reasons for not doing so were preference to grow organically (32 percent), target prices too high (16 percent) and compliance and/or regulatory issues (14 percent). • Respondents were asked which areas their bank has improved infrastructure in over the past three years. .