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How Crowdfunding Aims To Fill SMBs’ Community Banking Gaps

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Community banks are often the familiar faces of the financial services world, and when small businesses seek capital, their neighborhood financial institution can be a promising place to start. While they continue to play an important role in small business financing, the community banking market is drastically shrinking in the U.S.

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Flow of funds and the UK real economy

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Net lending represents the overall surplus or deficit, and it is theoretically the same whether you look at it from the income or financial account viewpoint. Evolution of the net lending positions of households and corporates The pre-GFC era was a period of strong growth and low inflation , which coincided with a large expansion of credit.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Commentary by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

As the stock market faltered in March, we saw the Federal Reserve step up with emergency rate cuts and Quantitative Easing to buy bonds. As stocks worsened and bond markets traded in a volatile and chaotic manner, the Fed once again stepped in with a surprise rate cut (on a weekend!) The actions taken by the Fed stabilized markets.

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Guest Post: Quarterly Financial Markets and Economics Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

His election has already brought change to the financial markets, sending stocks rising 6%, as measured on the S&P 500 index, and sending interest rates to their highest levels in years. Clearly, the markets expect change. The markets must think that GDP growth will soar on January 21 st. Maybe change will be coming.

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Community Banks Embrace Faster Payments’ Competitive Edge

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However, the number of banks has steadily declined over the years, partly driven by merger and acquisition (M&A) activity — with much of that consolidation occurring in the community bank market. has dropped from 8,000 in 2004 to about 5,400 in 2018.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 To fight inflation, the Fed raised rates aggressively (familiar?). What caused it?

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A Decline in Personal Savings

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By the 1990’s, improvements in technology and further changes to securities regulations made it easier for corporate customers to access financial markets directly. This forced banks to renew their focus on middle market commercial banking and consumers. From 1990-2004, US home ownership rose 7.45% to 69.2% from 1965-1990.

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