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The Biggest Banking, Regulatory Challenges For Today’s Entrepreneur

PYMNTS

The FI said this statistic is two percentage points higher than last year’s report, and a whopping 25 percentage points up from 2016 levels. More than half of small firms also say their local economies are going to improve this year (56 percent), up from 50 percent in the spring of last year, and just 38 percent in 2016.

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The Time Is Now

Independent Banker

Happy New Year, fellow community bankers! I hope you enjoyed the holidays and are looking forward to a prosperous 2016. This upcoming year has a lot of good in store for our industry, because ICBA continues to pursue even more successes for community banks nationwide. Never before has it been more important.

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Is Small Business Lending Facing a ‘Moment of Reckoning?’

Gonzobanker

article , former Small Business Administration administrator Karen Mills said community banks with strong small business customer bases that don’t find new ways to serve them digitally are going to face a “reckoning.” Source: DeBanked ) Square Capital lent about $1.6 In a recent American Banker. Source: DeBanked ).

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How Small Biz Plans To Finance Their Growth

PYMNTS

Some need working capital to grow; others are bracing for working capital fluctuations or economic uncertainty. Working capital fluctuations and the need to grow as a result of increasing demand were also top motivators behind seeking external financing, researchers said. Adding to the evidence that the U.S. ”

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

Jeff For Banks

Bank lending has not been the catalyst it used to be for improved growth in this recovery compared to prior ones; maybe we can point at regulation after regulation being forced onto banks and higher, more restrictive capital requirements. In the early 1980s, the Reagan tax cuts took two years to push GDP growth above 3.0%

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

Jeff For Banks

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. In 2007, the Bank had $1.1

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Bank Consolidation Enters Period of Uncertainty

American Banker

There is optimism that consolidation could bounce back from a lackluster 2016 as bank stock rally. At the same time, expectations of regulatory easing and tax reform could entice more banks to stay independent, at least in the short term.

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