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Community banks’ net income, loan balances increase in 2014

Abrigo

The latest FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile was just released and the industry continues to be led by the nation’s community banks. The positive trends from the third quarter of 2014 continued for the industry sub-set. During the fourth quarter of 2014, it rose $1 billion to reach $17.2 Small loans to businesses up 3.4

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Community banks’ net income, loan balances increase in 2014

Abrigo

The latest FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile was just released and the industry continues to be led by the nation’s community banks. The positive trends from the third quarter of 2014 continued for the industry sub-set. During the fourth quarter of 2014, it rose $1 billion to reach $17.2 Small loans to businesses up 3.4

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Banks Push Back On Possible Banking Charters For Big Techs Like Amazon And Facebook

PYMNTS

The House committee held a hearing on the idea after Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks in July proposed a new special purpose national banking charter for payments companies. The agency first proposed a special banking charter for FinTechs in 2014 that would limit pushback from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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U.S. Farming Has A Banking Problem

PYMNTS

Analysts note that today, the percentage of professionals working in the agricultural sector remains so low that including them in national jobs calculations would not have a statistically relevant effect on overall analysis. “As percent: the growth rate of FDIC-insured bank loans to farm borrowers as of March 2019.

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Community banks most likely to approve small business loans

Abrigo

Over the first half of 2014, these banks, with an approval rate of just under 60 percent, beat out large national banks (31 percent), large regional banks (45 percent) and online lenders (38 percent). In fact, its 2014 Survey of Credit Underwriting Practices noted that 2014 marked a third consecutive year of eased standards.

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Cabot Square Capital Sells 321 Crédito

PYMNTS

financial services firm, on Wednesday (July 25) sold its entire stake in 321 Crédito, a Portuguese consumer finance lender, to Banco CTT, the bank run by Portugal’s privatized national postal service. With a specialty in car loans, 321 Crédit has been a Cabot Square Capital company since 2014. Cabot Square Capital, a U.K. trillion U.S.

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Diversity reports at two federal agencies offer glimpse of regulatory review under impending Dodd-Frank diversity standards

CFPB Monitor

Two reports recently issued by the Offices of Inspector General at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) may provide some insight on the impending final standards. ( FDIC Report ; OCC Report ).

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