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TruSight will assess, far more likely to make those prohibited nancial companies validate and monitor vendors changes work for you, said from including mandatory on behalf of the consortium, Dave Martin, the founder of arbitration clauses. which is expected to expand. bankmechanics, in this op-ed. 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To register, please contact Ingrid Olsen ([email protected]) at 212-803-8456, Ron Senyor ([email protected]) at 212-803-8709 or visit us at www.americanbanker.com/conference/retail-2018 Brought to you by: EVENTS d35035_RetailBanking_ABMPrint_Ad.indd003_ABM0118 3 1 12/7/201711/29/17 11:12:53 11:45 AM AM Editor’s Note BY BONNIE McGEER CDFI Aims to Transform How Lending Gets Done Much like traditional banks, community development nancial institutions reach and impact, and traditional banks are trying to adjust to the digital revolution too. stand to be a big part of that growth, with The nonprot Excelsior Growth Fund in New York is further along in that e ort the opportunity to earn Community Re- than most, and its president, Steven Cohen, has some insight to share with others in investment Act credit in the process. the sector looking to modernize. “Forward-thinking, technoloy-driven He is a big proponent of technoloy and its potential to transform how CDFIs and CDFIs are sort of changing the way that banks work together. banks could conceivably serve their cus- Excelsior, which provides small-business loans and advisory services, focuses on tomers, retain their customers and get those that typically cannot qualify for nancing at a bank. The end goal is not to keep CRA credit all at the same time,” Cohen customers, but to help them move on to a bank eventually. said. Cohen also aims to keep small businesses away from more unscrupulous lenders. The Association for Enterprise Op- “The CDFI industry, like other segments of the nancial services industry, is going portunity, a trade group for microenter- through a process of adapting to the destruction that is going on,” Cohen said. “We’re prise loan funds, developed a platform seeing 20% of the market go to these online lenders,” which are largely unregulated it calls “myWay to Credit,” where banks and in some cases predatory.