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CFPB: Are They Coming to Get You?

Jeff For Banks

Knowing this, very large financial institutions operate branches where they can have greater scale to drive greater profitability, which frequently excludes LMI neighborhoods, creating what is termed "bank deserts." Another challenge is imposed by the very government that tries to assist LMI households: regulation.

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Why Banks Merge: Listen to the Sellers

Jeff For Banks

." - Gregory Schreacke, President of First Financial Service Corporation in Elizabethtown, KY on his bank''s sale to Community Bank Shares of Indiana, Inc. Read: We need to be bigger and have more capital to keep up with regulation and the industry. Read: We only have $10 million in capital and can''t get more on our own.

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Deposits: Do you want a relationship or fries with that?

Jeff For Banks

Regulators have been particularly harsh to those banks whose business plans call for other-than-traditional deposit acquisition. If your bank has brokered deposits, Internet deposits, jumbo CDs, rewards checking, and in some cases CDARs, a regulator near you may be calling to order you to seek more traditional funding.

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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. We’re not scared of that.

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Autopsy Report: 9 Startup Failure Stories And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

After soaring to a multi-billion-dollar valuation behind an iconic founder, a team of prominent backers, and a promise to revolutionize blood testing, Theranos officially ceased operations in 2018. That July, it banned Holmes from owning or operating a lab for two years. The rise and fall of Theranos. Total funding : $161M.

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Payments’ Stranger Things

PYMNTS

The first two seasons of “ Stranger Things ” were all about the efforts of Eleven — a paranormal psychic — and the townspeople living in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, to keep the hive mind from turning the real world into their upside down. Overstock as Bitcoin/Blockchain Unicorn. Scooters as Billion-Dollar Babies.

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‘Stranger Things’ And Starcourt Mall Teach Us About Big Tech And Innovation

PYMNTS

By the turn of the century, department stores had become the cornerstones of entirely new ecosystems that drove consumer consumption to record levels that, in turn, created new manufacturing, wholesale and supply chain opportunities for producers eager to capitalize on that demand.