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Should Congress Increase FDIC Insurance Limits?

South State Correspondent

In the wake of regional bank failures, one potential answer to equity shorting and bank runs is having the FDIC increase deposit insurance. private and public lending markets are the world’s envy, with a wide availability of financing options for many capital seekers across the entire capital stack. economy needs.

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New York Sees Most Bank Branch Closures In US

PYMNTS

The area encompasses New York City, its suburbs and parts of New Jersey, “a very dense urban market in most instances, so there’s a lot of potential duplication of bank branches,” said Walter Bialas, director of research at Jones Lang LaSalle , the world’s second-largest commercial real estate services firm. markets in the study.

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Chase Tries To Win Over More Unbanked Consumers

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recently fell to the lowest rate since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, but a new product launch from JPMorgan Chase & Co. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the percentage of unbanked Americans fell to its lowest level since the 2007-2009 financial crisis. households remain unbanked. In 2017, 6.5

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CFPB turns attention to college banking agreements in annual report on college credit card agreements

CFPB Monitor

The new report represents a return to the Bureau’s pre-2016 practice of including in the annual report not only the information on college credit card agreements mandated by the CARD Act but also information on other financial products marketed to students. College Deposits Market. College credit card agreements.

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Why Better Data Is The First Step In Curing The Startup Slump

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When the economy crashed in 2008, and fully bottomed out in June 2009 credit across the board froze. What is as true today as it was in the year 2009, she said, is small businesses aren’t starting, lasting, expanding and thriving — because of inadequate access to capital. The rising tide, it seemed, was lifting all boats.

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Bank Customers Lose Real Money

Jeff For Banks

You've been conservative, preferring the stability and security of bank deposits versus the gyrations of the market. Sure, your home value declined, but what does that mean to someone with little to no mortgage and isn't in the market to sell? Forcing savers into equities, which has driven markets up. Taxes go down?

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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

Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose 800%, only to fall 740% from its peak by October 2002, giving up all its gains during the bubble. We knew there was tremendous hubris in the subprime market. The Y2K scare also had companies pouring money into tech firms. What caused it?

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