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Growing a new branch

Independent Banker

community bank during the pandemic. The community bank, which was started de novo in 2006, already had numerous commercial clients in the city; they had been referred by existing customers of Providence Bank’s five existing locations, clustered about 45 minutes east of Raleigh. Ted Whitehurst, Providence Bank. “We

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

PYMNTS

Before this year, the last time that happened was in 2006, when Walmart made a move on an ILC. Ultimately, that effort was pushed back by a coalition of unions, consumer groups, community banking groups and legislators that did not trust Walmart’s business plan or intentions once they had the license and FDIC deposit insurance in hand.

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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

bank failures per year between 1996 and 2006, and 3.6 The old borrow short, lend long strategy. Economists cite as the main culprit the collapse of the subprime mortgage market — defaults on high-risk housing loans — which led to a credit crunch in the global banking system and a precipitous drop in bank lending.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. trillion; on security-related hardware, software and services at 10 percent a year from a 2018 base of $91.4

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FinTech’s Bright Future Marred by Hype

PYMNTS

A few days later, one of the founding fathers of FinTech, Renaud Laplanche , was forced out of Lending Club, the peer-to-peer lender he founded in 2006, following scandals over loan disclosures and conflicts of interest. The really interesting, though less juicy, story is what got Lending Club into trouble.

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All Pain, No Gain

Independent Banker

Community bankers offer real-world reasons for more Basel III relief. Nearly one year after the Basel III capital rules went into effect, community bankers say that now recognize just how much more complex and how much more difficult this new set of capital rules will make life and business for them if they remain in place.

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Four Reasons for the 2007-08 Financial Crisis

Jeff For Banks

It should be noted that in 2006, 40% of purchase mortgages were for investment or vacation property. Community financial institutions make their debut here, as they purchased bonds, typically highly rated, backed by mortgages that also had insurance applied to them. Note the absence of anything resembling a community bank.