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    How to Relieve the 3 Biggest Headaches for Commercial Lenders

    There is no denying that commercial lending is a fast-paced business. Or rather, it should be. But in reality, the commercial loan approval process is slow, clunky, unsecure, and all-around inefficient—making your Small Business Administration (SBA) loan processing times far longer than they should be.

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    How to Remove the Friction Points in Your SBA Loan Approval Process

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    How to Remove the Friction Points in Your SBA Loan Approval Process

    SBA loans are a type of small business loan partially guaranteed by the federal government – the Small Business Administration – that mitigate the financial risk of commercial lenders to encourage broader lending to small businesses in need of assistance. The SBA is not a lender. Rather the SBA partially backs small business loan applications within a network of approved lenders.

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    3 of the Most Informative KPIs for Commercial Lenders

    Success in the commercial lending industry depends on a constant cycle of data-driven evaluations to ensure that your organization originates profitable loans. Tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) specific to commercial loan processing indicates the surest path to informed decision-making. To limit the influence of risky, gut-based decision-making, lending institutions should stress the value of KPIs for maintaining a data-backed understanding of the overall profitability of their loan...

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    FileInvite raises $10 million to change how information is requested

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    FileInvite raises $10 million Series A to change how information is requested

    JULY 4: New Zealand-headquartered FileInvite has raised $10 million in Series A investment to fast-forward the extinction of email for requesting and collecting documents online.

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    10 Reasons Why Credit Unions Need Automated Data & Document Collection

    Customer service innovation, automation, digital transformation? No problem! As customer expectations peak, credit unions are well-positioned to meet the increasing demand for personalization and expediency. A credit union’s selling point has always been: “We are your friendly, local alternative to the big banks. Here, you’re more than a number.” Of course, success is a double-edged sword. As your credit union grows, so does your paperwork volume. It becomes harder to deliver on those promises....

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    The 4 Key Features a Bank's Document Collection Platform Must Have

    In nearly every industry, the pace of digital operations has accelerated during the last two years. Despite their traditionally risk-averse and innovation-resistant posture, even lending institutions have felt the pressure to give clients more of the online, self-service, and mobile options they’ve come to expect in customer experiences. Adapting to evolving customer preferences for technologies such as client portals while maintaining secure document collection practices has become a timely...

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    What is SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance?

    Data breaches are on the rise. Incident reports jumped by 68% in 2021, marking the highest single-year increase on record. The trend in data breaches tracks a generalized surge of 300% in cybercrime since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

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    Integrating Your Financial Systems with a Document Automation Platform

    Is your team bouncing off the walls with new ideas about strategy and better serving your clients, but they’re stuck spending crucial work hours manually filling out documents? Your problem is not unique in the business world. Data suggests that staff productivity falls by 21% due to document issues.

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    7 Benefits of Automated Document Collection for Banking Institutions

    In a period of intensely accelerated digital transformation, organizations in all industries and sectors struggle to reshape previously fragmented, ad hoc processes – straddling different eras of technology – into streamlined, efficient workflows. For banking institutions, the challenges of secure document collection remain at the top of the stack.

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    3 Reasons Why Your Document Collection Tool Needs an Open API

    An application programming interface (API) enables two or more applications to communicate with one another. This is essential for data collection services because clients often use more than one system in their business operations. APIs enable these systems to work together seamlessly. Organizations worldwide use them to streamline workflows, enhance productivity, and provide increased data security, among other things.

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    5 Ways to Improve Commercial Lending with a Secure Client Portal

    Financial institutions that manage commercial property deals face the same challenges residential lenders do, only on a larger scale. These deals are often worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and involve the sensitive data of individuals and business entities.

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    Everything You Need to Know About B2B Online Document Storage

    The distinction between B2C and B2B online document storage may seem negligible on the surface. However, there are substantial differences that you need to keep in mind when selecting the technologies and solutions for either B2B or B2C operations. In the business world, you’ll encounter many different actors with particular motivations and concerns. The way you interact with these personas is what will determine your long-term success or failure.

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