Commercial lending

With the regulatory relief bill set to become law soon, some congressional Republicans are already calling for additional rollbacks to the Dodd-Frank Act. There’s one thing they should keep in mind: Community banks had a hand in the crisis too.

The legislation, which still needs Senate approval, would let the head of the Small Business Administration raise the program's cap in periods of heavy demand.

Legal costs and legacy issues related to previous management continue to weigh on the online lender's results.

Eric Itambo will become chief banking officer of CoBank, where he will oversee all lending operations.

The online business lender would have reported its second straight quarterly profit if not for one-time costs tied to layoffs and lease terminations.

The removal of costly appraisal requirements on tens of thousands of smaller commercial properties could help community banks better compete for loans they say they have been losing to nonbank lenders.

Attorneys for then-President Robert Harra said he is innocent and will file an appeal. The case centers on a scheme said to have been carried out during the crisis years, before the bank was sold to M&T.

A bank that can deliver a loan decision a little faster, or ask a client to input information just once, could get a leg up on the competition. But some executives are skeptical of software sales pitches and fear overpaying.

Leader Bank says it can land property managers as commercial clients by helping them handle tenant deposits — and possibly create opportunities to boost CRE lending.

Green Apple Bank & Trust, which recently filed an application with regulators, plans to open in the western part of the state by the end of this year.

The group says Mulvaney, who also runs OMB, was not totally forthcoming with the Senate Budget Committee about the foreclosure of a property he owns in South Carolina.

On Dec. 31, 2017. Dollars in thousands.

For one California bank, the biggest challenge was finding equity investors to participate in deals.

Capitol Federal will enter commercial lending for the first time in its 125-year history after it buys Capital City Bank.

The U.S. subsidiary of the Spanish banking giant BBVA said Friday that direct consumer loans increased 40% in the first quarter and that its digital strategy is bearing fruit.

Borrowers can get better rates elsewhere, so they're repaying ahead of schedule, leaving banks in the lurch. The steps lenders would have to take to keep the business could be prohibitively expensive.

Spirit of Texas Bancshares plans to raise $40 million to fund organic growth and acquisitions.

A 20% increase in lending, largely to players in the tech industry, helped the California company offset a one-time loss tied to an investment in the streaming company Roku.

The San Antonio company said that it has scaled back its exposure to energy loans in favor of a greater emphasis on loans of less $10 million.

Using Orchard’s data science smarts, Kabbage intends to offer new payment products to small businesses and loan portfolio insights to financial institution partners.