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Five At Five: France Aims To Tax Big Tech

PYMNTS

Today’s coverage includes the latest European push to tax such companies as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. France’s Finance Minister Wants EU-Wide Digital Tax By Year End. The new tax would apply to Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon so that they are paying what the government sees as a fairer tax rate in the region.

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Banks Keep SMB Lending Gains Rolling

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“When you combine a strong economy, healthy retail demand and the willingness of small business owners to reinvest their savings from tax cuts, it creates a positive atmosphere for small business lending ,” said Rohit Arora, Biz2Credit CEO, in a statement. Business owners are bullish on the economy.”. percent.

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Why Target Is Better For Home Price Than Walmart

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Which retail store do you live closer to — Target or Walmart? Fortune shares that a new report from online real estate company RealtyTrac analyzed the value (including appreciation and property taxes) of homes located in U.S. The answer could affect the worth of your home.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. Early customer acquisition came in large part from the buy-in of online developer communities like Github and Stack Exchange. The company reached unicorn status in January 2014 at a $1.8B Get the full report.

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Rebounding from the Downturn

Independent Banker

Community First Bank & Trust. Retail locations: Eight. Community First Bank & Trust had an extraordinary 2015. The largest component of Community First Bank’s earnings in 2015 was a reversal of a $10.6 million valuation allowance on the bank’s deferred tax assets. Columbia, Tenn. ROAA in 2015: 3.63

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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

More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. Although community banks did not lend to sub-prime borrowers in any meaningful way, did we participate? trillion failed. Then depositors woke up.

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My Fantasy Banking Team

Jeff For Banks

Chief Retail Officer. Chan came as part of the recap, and rose to Chairman in 2014. Since his joining the Board, the bank has stabilized, returned to profitability, recaptured it's deferred tax asset, and NPAs/Assets have declined to less than 3%. Selection: Mitch Englert, EVP of Community Banking, Capital City Bank Group, Inc.