ABI Blog Exchange

2020-03-26
From helping hospitals purchase new testing kits and ventilators to backing efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, banks large and small are pledging millions of dollars to assist with medical relief efforts.

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2020-03-26
Tom Meyer, CEO of 1st Capital since 2015, decided to step down because shelter-in-place orders are keeping him from family hundreds of miles from the bank.

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2020-03-26
Draw-downs on C&I credit more than quadrupled in a seven-day period ended March 25. Lenders may try to rein them in if the crisis drags out, but legal precedent isn’t on their side.

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2020-03-26
On March 25, 2020, the Senate passed an amendment to H.R. 748, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (as amended, the “CARES Act”), which (as of March 26, 2020) is being considered in the House.
2020-03-26
A former market president for State Bank Financial would serve as CEO of the proposed Classic City Bank.

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2020-03-26
Yeah!!!  Some good student loan stuff in the bill.

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2020-03-26
Arizent, the parent company of American Banker, has conducted a broad industry survey on both the impact of the crisis and emerging responses.

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2020-03-26
While LendingClub, Prosper, Avant and SoFi are giving existing borrowers breaks in the short term, they're considering tightening credit as the coronavirus outbreak threatens to drag the economy into a recession.

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2020-03-26
Many borrowers will suffer unless the program, the central bank's latest response to the coronavirus pandemic, includes consumer loans issued by fintechs.

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2020-03-26
The joint statement said examiners will not impede banks’ responsible efforts to offer open lines of credit, closed-installment loans or other products to borrowers dealing with fallout from the pandemic.

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2020-03-26
As of the date of this writing we are barely two weeks into what could likely be the largest financial meltdown since the Great Depression.

Read More from: Levitt & Slafkes LLC

2020-03-26
As of the date of this writing we are barely two weeks into what could likely be the largest financial meltdown since the Great Depression.

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2020-03-26
We hope that everyone reading this is safe and is healthy. If you have lost your job or been furloughed because of the COVID-19 crisis, you are beginning to make the difficult choice of deciding what bills to pay first.

Read More from: Levitt & Slafkes LLC

2020-03-26
We hope that everyone reading this is safe and is healthy. If you have lost your job or been furloughed because of the COVID-19 crisis, you are beginning to make the difficult choice of deciding what bills to pay first.

Read More from: Levitt & Slafkes LLC

2020-03-26
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank will maintain its muscular efforts to support the flow of credit in the U.S. economy as Americans hunker down from the coronavirus pandemic.

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