For the past 40 years banks have refrained from making small dollar consumer loans due to the unprofitable nature of doing so. Industry experts say it costs anywhere from $85-$100 to book an installment loan and the interest received wouldn’t cover the expense. Even though in the 1990’s banks starting charging an application fee to […]
When was the last time your bank had a product or service that would substantially increase the sales of your small business customers? Are your small business customers considering leaving your bank for Fintech’s who offering something you can’t provide? Fintech experts claim that virtually all small businesses will have some sort of buy now […]
When was the last time your lending team was excited when a customer came to the bank to borrow $750? My guess is nearly 40 years ago when credit cards took over unsecured installment lending business from community banks. Each core processor has fees associated with booking a new installment loan and the average fee […]
Nearly 70% of consumers currently use Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services and the number is even higher for millennials and Gen Z’s. Community banks have battled for years to try to provide online banking, mobile banking and other services to keep and attract young customers when they leave for college and don’t come back […]
For years community banks have tried to attract younger consumers to replace older customers whose deposits generally leave the bank when they pass away. Also, baby boomers and the silent generation born before 1959 tend to be deposit gatherers rather than borrowers. During the pandemic in 2020 that continues on in 2022, consumer buying habits […]
Consumer lending has been a thing of the past for most community banks since credit cards took over unsecured small dollar lending in the 1980’s. Some banks try to compete with credit unions and auto companies for indirect car paper but that has diminished as well due to unprofitable low rates the competition is providing. […]
Lay-a-way programs started in the 1930’s and became very popular with consumers in the 1970’s where a merchant would reserve an item for a consumer until a consumer completed payments for the item. This was a prevalent way to make purchases for Christmas presents. Then in the early 80’s, lay-a-way programs were replaced with credit […]
For the past 40 years banks have made it difficult for their customers to get a small dollar installment loan due to the unprofitable nature of doing so. Credit card company business has flourished since the late 1970’s and bankers have been left on the sidelines. The old (and current) way of making consumer loans […]
Strunk has recently partnered with Quilo to provide community banks the opportunity to make small dollar installment loans profitably through your mobile banking app. The Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) craze is here to stay and you may have recently seen where Amazon has teamed up with Affirm to provide this service. Are you going […]
Digital banking has been around for about a decade as community banks and credit unions scrambled to offer consumers something big banks started in 2007. Mobile banking really started in Europe in the late 1990s and it took over ten years for it to become popular in the United States. Mobile banking gives consumers 24/7 […]
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