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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. How Banks Can Leverage: Niche markets abound in banking, and community banks are in the perfect position to create a following on a national level should they desire.

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Advocacy at the Grassroots: A Lively Legislature

Independent Banker

The Independent Bankers Association of New York State has been actively advocating for several initiatives to enhance community banking and the communities and customers our members serve. These increased burdens and costs have had an impact on the number of community banks.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

I along with countless other managers and investors were finally happy. in 2018, but about equal to the average growth since 2011. The impact of the tax cuts has faded. However, don’t count on the usual spending boost from personal tax refunds as they are down by over $6 billion from this time last year. Yes, M2 matters.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2018 Edition

Jeff For Banks

This is clearly a turnaround situation, as the bank lost over $12 million in 2010, over 20% of its capital (ouch). But once they turned things around they took their deferred tax asset back onto their books and did three acquisition. is the parent company of Willamette Valley Bank, a community bank headquartered in Salem, Oregon.

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Guest Post: Quarterly Financial Markets and Economics Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

In the past ten years, the economy has not managed even one year of 3.0%+ growth. Since 2011, productivity has fallen by -.4%. Corporate and personal tax cuts were promised, with the corporate rate dropping from 35% to 15%. I saw an estimate that 50% of the effect of tax cuts flows through to growth in the first eighteen months.

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Guest Post: FInancial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

This is because the economy has been gaining momentum, however modest, from the tax cuts and deregulation. As well as the economy has been doing from the momentum of tax cuts and reduced regulation, there are always looming issues. Dorothy has been with Penn Community Bank and its predecessor since November, 2004.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

That got regulator's attention in the form of a May 2011 Consent Order (CO). Today, NPL/total loans is a manageable 0.94%, and the Bank ROA/ROE year-to-date is 1.22% and 11.61% respectively. It is a turnaround story because the bank was hammered with credit problems between 2008-11, when it lost over $200 million.