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Five At Five: France Aims To Tax Big Tech

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Today’s coverage includes the latest European push to tax such companies as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. France’s Finance Minister Wants EU-Wide Digital Tax By Year End. The new tax would apply to Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon so that they are paying what the government sees as a fairer tax rate in the region.

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Lower taxes, more M&A: Behind a California bank’s move to Texas

American Banker

First Foundation is relocating its corporate headquarters to Dallas, where the tax burden is lighter and it sees more opportunity to beef up lending, add wealth management clients and pursue acquisitions of community banks.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Philadelphia.

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What Goes Up …

Independent Banker

Coping just fine, community banks in energy-producing regions manage the oil-price plunge. Yet community bankers serving the oil industry say they’ve been expecting a drop in the notoriously cyclical price of crude. billion-asset community bank based in Happy, Texas. By Howard Schneider. percent expansion last year.

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15 Minutes With—Les Leskovin

Independent Banker

Community National Bank & Trust of Texas. Leskoven: We’re about 45 miles southeast of Dallas. We have a very successful junior college, school district and hospital—the typical things that you would expect to see in a community. In a community bank, the trust officer is really kind of a jack-of-all-trades.

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Fintech Fundings: 36 Companies Raise $480 Million Week Ending March 18

Fintech Labs Insights

Community platform for investors. HQ: Dallas, Texas. Tax preparation technology. Tags: Consumers, tax prep, personal financial management. Total raised: $3.5 HQ: New Oreans, Louisiana. Source: FT Partners. Tradesocio. Latest round: $1.2 million Seed. Total raised: $1.2 HQ: Nicosia, Cyprus. Source: Crunchbase.

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Welcome To Alexa City

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But a little more surprisingly, the second city to do so lies 1,000 miles away from Silicon Valley, in a Dallas suburb called University Park. Down the road, she could provide information about the city budget and where taxes go, or connect people with resources to improve their community and help their neighbors.