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Welcome to the Lending Brief Podcast, brought to you by the GovNavigators and sponsored by Allocore. Allocore brings the precision and expertise of commercial banking technology to the public sector from preventing fraud in small business loans, to reimagining how treasury…
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Lending Brief Podcast: USDA Rural Development Leapfrogging Federal Lending Modernization (Ep. 20) (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Center for USA Lending's The Lending Brief, sponsored by Allocore, we're joined by Victoria Collin, Acting Administrator of USDA's Rural Business-Cooperative Service, for a look at one of the most ambitious modernization efforts in federal lending. Victoria brings a rare vantage point, from standing up Treasury's emergency rental assistance program during the pandemic, to years at OMB overseeing cross-government financial management policy, to now running an agency that se
Lending Brief Podcast: The Case for Mission-Driven Performance Data (Ep. 19) (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Center for USA Lending's The Lending Brief, sponsored by Allocore, we're joined by Sarah Cunningham, partner at Summit Consulting and founder of its financial management practice, and Shelley Metzenbaum, founding president of the Volcker Alliance and director of the Better Project, for a conversation about the question federal credit has never fully answered: are these programs actually doing what they were designed to do? Both are co-authoring a chapter on credit program
Lending Brief Podcast: The Golden Age of Federal Credit (Ep. 18) (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Center for USA Lending's The Lending Brief, sponsored by Allocore, we're joined by Anthony Curcio, founder of Summit Consulting and a 20-year veteran of federal credit policy, for a practitioner's guide to what it takes to stand up a new federal loan program. Drawing on his time at OMB and decades advising agencies across the credit spectrum, Anthony makes the case that we're living through a golden age of new credit programs, and that the stakes for getting program design
Lending Brief Podcast: Building the Infrastructure for Federal Lending Reform w/ the Team (Ep. 17) (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Center for USA Lending's The Lending Brief, sponsored by Allocore, we turn the mic inward. Doug Criscitello is joined by Center teammates Jay Hurt and Kate Aaby for a progress report on what the Center has been building, and what's coming next. From the launch of its first quarterly forum on student lending to a Capitol Hill briefing on the Federal Loan Systems Modernization Act, the Center has hit its stride in its first full year of operation. We've got a great team on o
Lending Brief Podcast: Connecting Federal Credit to Workforce and Economic Development (Ep. 16) (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Center for USA Lending's The Lending Brief, sponsored by Allocore, we're joined by Joanna Mikulski, founder of Mikulski Strategies and former policy advisor at the Biden White House Domestic Policy Council, for a conversation that bridges the worlds of federal credit, workforce development, and economic policy. Drawing on her time at OMB, the White House, and years working in international development, Joanna brings a rare ground-level perspective on what happens when well
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