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Clear Mountain Bank reaches new heights

Independent Banker

Consider, for example, its commercial lending approach. Commercial clients make up nearly 60% of the loan portfolio at the $850 million-asset community bank based in Bruceton Mills, W.Va. We’ve got different tools in our toolbox that we can use to help the borrower get the financing they need.”. Quick Stat. million in funding.

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AltFin’s Bumpy Ride Into An Uncertain 2019

PYMNTS

Charles Dickens’ famous starter to A Tale of Two Cities , as it turns out, is a pretty good way to sum up the year 2018 from the view of the alternative financial services segment. For a while now, we’ve been waiting for loan growth improvement, and it’s been slow,” said Barclays Analyst Jason Goldberg.

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B2B FinTech’s Unlikely Investment Winner

PYMNTS

Businesses across the globe operating in the blockchain, eCommerce-as-a-Service and alternative lending spaces (to name a few) all secured funding. Find out what it is, along with the rest of the week’s funding rounds, below. . It was also one of the most diverse. Blockchain . In its latest funding round, Fluent secured $1.65

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2019 Edition

Jeff For Banks

However, to exclude trading inefficiencies associated with illiquidity, I filtered out those FIs that trade less than 2,000 shares per day, 1,000 more than past Top 5's. Before we begin and for comparison purposes, here are last year's top five , as measured in December 2018: #1. Today they trade at sixty one bucks!

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How JPMorgan Is Preparing For The Next Generation Of Consumer Banking

CB Insights

This is in part because customers no longer need to rely on banks for financial services — 60% of US bank customers say they are willing to try a financial product from a tech firm they already use, and that number rises to 73% for customers aged 18 — 34. JPM is the first consumer bank to give free trades to all retail customers.

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8 Trends Shaping The Future Of Blockchain Technology

CB Insights

Specifically, we’ll talk about: Initial coin offerings. Initial coin offerings. Initial coin offerings (ICOs) are sales of tokens by blockchain companies looking to raise funds. Where VCs trade cash for equity, ICO investors trade cash for tokens. The encrypted messaging service raised $1.7B

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How 60+ Startups Are Disrupting Retail And Commercial Banking Around The World

CB Insights

What these startups share is the goal of creating customer-centric banking products that target underserved individuals and businesses. As a result, they can only offer limited services. Another challenge is that many of these startups grow fast by offering free accounts and services to lower-income customers.

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