PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Charles Dickens’ famous starter to A Tale of Two Cities , as it turns out, is a pretty good way to sum up the year 2018 from the view of the alternative financial services segment. However, as 2018 wore on, headwinds started to blow back on the segment, most especially in the form of rising interest rates.

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Millennials Lending System Data 145

Abrigo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Now is the time for community financial institutions to pay attention. Millions of dollars in suspicious activity were not reported to FinCEN in a timely or accurate manner, including those connected to tax evasion, illegal gambling, money laundering, and other financial crimes. . Lending & Credit Risk. Learn More.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

Despite the optimism, 64 percent revealed they did not benefit from recent tax reform, and more than one-third are concerned about the health of the national economy. SMBs turned to online lenders when seeking funding in 2018 , the latest analysis from Funding Circle and Oxford Economics found. Thirty-two percent of U.S.

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Survey America Analysis Data 115

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Taxes, minimum wage, global trade tariffs — there are a lot of regulatory changes weighing heavily on the minds of U.S. With prescription drugs representing 92 percent of sales revenue, according to the National community Pharmacists Association, thinning margins — and frequent losses — from this side of the business can be fatal.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2018

The store will open in Fall 2018. From concept to its launch in January of 2018, Amazon Go took five years to make it to market with its first location, found on the ground floor of the firm’s new headquarters. is growing, tax reform put a few more bucks in consumers’ pockets and wages are increasing.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

US stocks erased all gains in 2018 and ended the year down 4% to 6%. For the month of December, 2018, the major indices were down about 9%, which was the worst December stock performance since 1931. 19% at year-end, 2018, down from.52% 23% at the end of 2018, from 1.02% one year earlier. 52% at the end of 2017.

Marketing 60

Marketing Community Bank Community Risk Management 60

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. Business lending and corporate cards. Most recently, Stripe has launched a Corporate Card and a Lending product geared towards small businesses. Fraud prevention tools. Supporting merchant partner growth. Source: Stripe.

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Online Company Retail Payments 98

Jeff For Banks

JULY 8, 2019

Which is becoming more challenging for the community financial institution due to heavy competition from money center and super-regional banks, credit unions, and fintech firms. I don't think community financial institutions can fund themselves solely from their commercial customers. My focus today is on consumer banking.

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Retail Community Taxes Strategy 60

William Mills

DECEMBER 12, 2017

business owners indicated continued growth for 2018, with 90 percent of respondents saying they plan to hire one or two new employees next year. For banks, small business and commercial lending can be bogged down by tedious application processes, sluggish response times and frequent delays. www.miradortech.com. RCGILTNER Services, Inc.

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Conference Innovation Lending Customer Experience 40

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company. Here’s hoping a final remodel of the stage coach occurs in 2018.

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Conference Industry Community Bank Community 101

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Even though Bitcoin’s mid-November price this year is similar to last year’s, it is pretty unlikely that 2018 will see a repeat of what happened in 2017 as November and then December wore on. At its lowest point the price of bitcoin dipped below $6,000 in June — but its price has been between $6,000 and $7,000 for most of the fall 2018.

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Bitcoin Lending cryptocurrency Taxes 108

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

GonzoBankers, 2018 has been a troublesome year. about the best and worst in banking for 2018 and get fired up to start again in ’19. Ladies and gentlemen, we bring you the 2018 GonzoBanker Awards ! Although all banks faced stock headwinds in 2018, we give the nod to William Demchak at PNC Financial Services.

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Fintech Conference Innovation Community 105

Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Nothing seems to put a bounce in a banker’s step more than a tax break and regulatory relief, and this bountiful energy was radiating at Bank Director’s annual “mecca” for bank M&A in Phoenix last week – Acquire or be Acquired. For those in the know – simply AOBA. The chatter at AOBA centered on three important topics: #1: The Breaks.

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Taxes Video Analytics Arkansas 76

Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

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. If bank regulations are lifted, lending and thus growth can improve. and 2018 at 1.8%

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Marketing Taxes Regulation US 60