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Where People Spent Stimulus Payments – And Where They Didn’t

PYMNTS

A recent report by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) finds that recipients of the initial $2.2 In one example, with the 2001 tax rebates, households spent roughly 20 percent to 40 percent of those funds in the first quarter after receiving them, with two-thirds spent over the first six months.

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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

The bank, First National Bank of Keystone, was $1.1 billion in assets, had 87 full-time equivalent employees, and accounted for two-thirds of the town's tax revenue. She effectively ran the bank and its operations. And so went the birth of First National Bank of Keystone's meteoric rise. That was Church and Cherry.

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The Gig Economy Gets Its Props

PYMNTS

It may sound like 2008 all over again, but this is different. Seamless, self-service processes to bring on new gig workers — including capturing tax and payment details — is mission-critical in terms of payment processing,” Tipalti’s Todd McGuire told PYMNTS. Platforms will prove their worth during this trying time.

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Happy Returns

Independent Banker

Greg Steverson (left) successfully manages a $100 million institutional investment portfolio for Ledyard National Bank in Norwich, Vt. All investment environments have their challenges,” Plunkett says, “but this one [since 2008], especially so.”. Greg Steverson, Ledyard National Bank.

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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

The BEA calculates the personal saving rate by subtracting taxes from personal income to arrive at “disposable personal income” and then subtracts personal outlays. As of October, the US ranked 32 nd according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) data. What’s left is an estimate of personal savings.

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Too Big to Bail Out?

Banking 2020

That refers to the perfect storm that drenched the entire system faced in 2008, and the occasional downpours specific institutions have faced since then. Besides, FSB proposals are not binding on any particular nation—technically, banks can keep doing what they do without running afoul of international law.

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How the OCC is building Crypto America

Lex Sokolin

But regardless of all that, $1 trillion of value has indeed materialized and grown on blockchain-based financial networks since 2008. Like taxes. On July 22, 2020, the OCC publishes Interpretive Letter #1170, on the Authority of a National Bank to Provide Cryptocurrency Custody Services for Customers. It may even go to $0.

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