Evaluating credit risk, after all, is part of a banker's trade: they should know better than insurers how likely a borrower is to default.

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Store credit card issuers as a whole have taken flak from the Fed over the past couple of years because of the way they instantaneously approve consumers at the register, rather than truly evaluating their credit and the likelihood that they will be able to pay back their debt.

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"You are committed to consummating an insider deal that prioritizes and monetarily benefits Cole Holdings and its management, " Mr. Schorsch wrote in an April letter to Cole Credit's three independent directors who were charged with evaluating the Cole merger and American Realty's unsolicited bid.

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