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Stuart Levey, HSBC’s chief counsel and a former U.S. Treasury undersecretary, will head the cryptocurrency project; lender groups say the demands of those small business loans are not so easy to meet.
May 7 -
Seneca-Cayuga Bancorp's capital levels have fallen steadily since peaking in 2013.
May 6 -
Regulators need to give more detailed guidance on the coronavirus relief program for small businesses so lenders don’t get trapped in underwriting mistakes down the road.
May 6Oliver Wyman -
Prosecutors charge two Rhode Island men with trying to rip off the program; the bank says it has received “inquiries” from state and federal officials on its offering of small business loans.
May 6 -
The agencies issued a rule to better enable banks to participate in two of the Federal Reserve’s lending facilities and “support the flow of credit to households and businesses.”
May 5 -
Bankers are bracing for accusations of discrimination in the way Paycheck Protection Program loans were allocated.
May 5 -
It's time for agencies like the Small Business Administration to stop playing catch-up and invest in state-of-the art technology.
May 5Alliance for Innovative Regulation -
The largest U.S. banks stepped up lending to dominate the government's small-business rescue program after playing an undersized role in its early days.
May 5 -
U.S. banks under $10 billion in assets made 60% of the loans in the first round of the Paycheck Protection Program; things go relatively smoothly in the U.K. as 110,000 small businesses apply for low-cost loans.
May 5 -
The central bank’s programs announced since mid-April in response to the coronavirus outbreak match if not exceed the actions it took during the 2007-9 financial crisis.
May 4