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Guest Post: 2013 Economic Year in Review and Outlook by Banker Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

She will continue your zero rate policy and will “taper” your QE 3 program, because the markets have already dismissed its impact and tightened long term rates despite your wishes. Mortgage rates rose just as much and they may potentially damage the housing market recovery. Stocks are supposed to have more risk. once again.

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Guest Post: 2012 Economic Year in Review by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

more “promises,” and a constant flow of new money into the markets. The biggest beneficiary of all this Fed activity has been the stock market—which ended the year at some pretty good “handles,” with the Dow above 13,000, S&P 500 above 1,400, and the Nasdaq above 3,000. Oh, wait, our Congress!

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Teach clients to treat their business like an investment

Abrigo

“Your marketplace, if you want to look at strategic valuations, is open to about everyone who has a business, so there’s a huge market,” McDaniel said during a recent webinar hosted by Sageworks. There’s a huge opportunity for all of us in the valuation field to assist our owners in valuations and in succession and exit planning.”

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AscendantFX Makes The Case For Wire Transfer

PYMNTS

billion via business wire fraud between October 2013 and December 2016, the FBI calculated. “More than ever, though, KYC [Know Your Customer] and risk management are critical to protect a financial institution and its customers.” Thieves attempted to steal $5.3 counterparts are not available.

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Guest Post: Second Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

On June 28th, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act as constitutional, calling penalties on individuals for failing to purchase health insurance a “tax.” This decision sets in motion a series of steps to implement the law over the next few years along with the estimated $813 billion in taxes and levies over the next ten years.

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What's With Regulator Agita Over Bank Commercial Real Estate Lending?

Jeff For Banks

They need a marketing person to title their reports. To summarize, banking institutions exceeding the concentration levels should have in place enhanced credit risk controls, including stress testing of CRE, and may be subject to further supervisory analysis. The OCC did an excellent analysis of the impact of this guidance in 2013.

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Guest Post: Third Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Another Volatile Quarter I know I risk sounding too negative, but we cannot seem to shake the crisis mentality that keeps whipsawing bond and stock markets. There has been a lot of talk about rescues from the European Union, but the markets want action. So why were the markets disappointed in the Fed’s forward guidance?

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