Reality Check
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Sometimes it is valuable to rethink basic assumptions and hopes to consider the reality of working within a bank or credit union. Example: Small Business. The small…
Focuses on improving performance in small business and middle market banking.
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Sometimes it is valuable to rethink basic assumptions and hopes to consider the reality of working within a bank or credit union. Example: Small Business. The small…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Two weeks ago we provided a summary of the current state of Bank/Fintech partnerships, particularly related to small business lending. Last week, we focused on the steps…
“An Inside Look at Existing Bank Partnerships.” Panelists include: Pete Steger, Kabbage; Mariano Belinky, Santander InnoVentures; Sara Phillips, Fifth Third Bank; Denise Thomas, ApplePie Capital; Julie Kimmerling, Chase; Brian Geary,…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) It has taken me a decade or two longer than it should have to figure it out. During that time FIC’s projects in the small business and…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) In response to a recent newsletter, a financial services executive emailed: “I wonder if deregulation will enable the banks to profitably fund <250k transactions again? Do you think…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) At most banks the small business segment has failed to generate satisfactory performance numbers. Despite the fact that small businesses represent 95%+ of all U.S. businesses and…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) At a marketplace lending conference in early December two speakers forecast that 2017 would be the year of the bank partnership for alternative finance companies (AFCs). Finally,…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) In preparing for next week’s webinar on cross selling, I have been speaking with some present and former bankers about how to make cross-selling work both for…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Here is a somewhat surprising phenomenon. A small, but we think increasing number of vendors in the finance and payments spaces, are limiting their reliance on or…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Just this week I was trying to reach the head of a regional bank’s small business group. He emailed back that he had switched jobs and I…