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Remembering 9/11 – A Pivotal Day for BSA/AML Professionals

Abrigo

September 11, 2001 will stay with Americans forever. T he events that unfolded in that bright blue sky on September 11, 2001 will stay with Americans forever. BSA was intended to detect illicit activity through cash and monetary instruments to catch tax evaders using secret foreign bank accounts. Never Forget.

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Data Enablers: Spreadshirt, Data-Driven T-Shirts

PYMNTS

Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6 We automate complex payment and tax regulations in over 180 countries and offer a variety of payment checkout options,” said Smoter. million items last year. “[Our

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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 dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. Most of the more than 500 financial institutions that failed were community banks.

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Guest Post: FInancial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

We have one year to go to match the longest expansion since World War II, which was the prosperous period engineered by Maestro Greenspan from March, 1991 to March, 2001. This is because the economy has been gaining momentum, however modest, from the tax cuts and deregulation. The economy has grown 2.2%

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Consumer Lending: Should Banks Do It?

Jeff For Banks

Ever since we formed our company in 2001, this has been the case. Most community financial institution strategies has some sort of “community” focus. It’s implied whenever someone says “we’re a community bank”. pre-tax profit as a percent of the portfolio. And it wasn’t an anomaly. Fixed home equity loans… nope.

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The Election That Misplaced Small Businesses

PYMNTS

This week opened with Hector Barreto — the current Chair of the Latino Coalition and a former SBA Administrator from 2001-2008 – wondering what on Earth had happened to the economic message during this particular election season. million businesses that line the main streets and side streets of the local communities across the U.S.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Economic growth picked up strongly in the second quarter, with a reading of +4.2%, as momentum from the tax cuts and deregulation pushed spending and investment higher. The longest expansion on record was from March, 1991 to March, 2001, with growth of 3.6%, engineered by Maestro Greenspan. Economy The economy is on a roll!