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Figure CEO: Figure Pay, National Bank Charter Will Boost Financial Inclusion

PYMNTS

While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments. Blockchain and a bank charter might do much to boost financial inclusion.

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Spilling Business Beans

Independent Banker

Treasury program that’s the well-kept secret in small-business lending. In Illinois, a loan participation plan by a community bank “insourced” jobs to the local area from overseas. In 2011, the company purchased a Costa Rica-based company with the intention of moving its operations to Rockford, Ill. By Jessica Milano.

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The benefits of small business relationships

Independent Banker

In many ways, we have always operated with the initiative to become a true advisor to our customers, but in the last few years, it has become a strategic focus to function this way on a daily basis,” says Joe Allen, senior vice president/central market leader. They can go ahead and operate and know that our bank is behind them,” Allen says.

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Banking's Total Return Top 5: 2014 Edition

Jeff For Banks

capital appreciation and dividends. Open Bank (OTCQB: OPBK) Open Bank commenced operations in 2005 as First Standard Bank in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles. The lion''s share of their growth, profitability, and capital have come since their re-branding to Open Bank in 2010. Congratulations to them.

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Best Community Banks to Work For 2022

Independent Banker

An entrepreneur with a background in accounting and finance, CEO and chairman of the board Thomas Swenson set up Montana Business Capital Corporation in 1998 with a focus on job creation and economic development lending. We don’t operate from a position of fear.”. —Tom Swenson, Bank of Montana. Reasons to stay.

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Amazon (And Others) Brace For India’s New eCommerce Tax

PYMNTS

firms operating on an international scale — is about to get more heated. Last week in India, the government proposed a tax on eCommerce transactions that will likely increase operating costs for sellers large and small. The jousting over eCommerce taxes — especially for U.S.

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How to Become an SBA Lender for the CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program

Abrigo

Speed is the operative word; applications for the emergency capital can begin as early as this week, with lenders using their own systems and processes to make these loans. The link to the form on the Treasury Department website was operable for a time Tuesday, then was not working later. Lending & Credit Risk.

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