Commercial lending

Prosper hopes to do for lines of credit what it did for unsecured personal loans, while BBVA hopes to provide a better experience for customers.

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PrecisionLender, the digital banking software vendor's largest acquisition to date, sells sales coaching software.

The more things change in small-business lending, the more they stay the same, going back as far as 3,000 years. But in this book excerpt, Karen Mills, former head of the Small Business Administration, predicts momentous changes ahead.

The parent of Silicon Valley Bank is as bullish as Citi on the growth potential in China, despite the trade war. SVB's focus on early-stage startups is boosting its profits from Asia.

The company is under law enforcement scrutiny for loans that helped propel a boom and bust in the taxi medallion market in New York City.

Digit is applying its automated-savings techniques to the growing problem of student loan debt.

Bank and other lenders are said to have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into financing private-equity firms and their investment deals in recent years. Defaults have been low, but an economic slowdown could put these relationships to the test.

A special committee in the state Senate has recommended not to move forward on a proposed bill to tax credit unions above a certain asset threshold.

The restriction on how often a borrower’s account is debited was supposed to be relatively straightforward, but one lender is trying to fight that provision.