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National Small Business Week Celebrates the American Entrepreneurial Spirit

Abrigo

The SBA offers the “three Cs” to help aspiring entrepreneurs start up and scale up by making counseling available, providing more choices and chances to secure capital, and by helping them seize market opportunities to commercialize their ideas.

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Banking's Total Return Top 5: 2014 Edition

Jeff For Banks

My method was to search for the best banks based on total return to shareholders over the past five years. capital appreciation and dividends. A summary of the banks, their strategies, and links to their website are below. #1. They are built as a relationship bank serving the Korean community in LA and surrounding areas.

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CRE Credit Risk – What You Need To Know Now

South State Correspondent

CRE Risk Background While ten years ago, community and regional banks use to make up some 55% of the CRE market, in 2023, these banks now compose approximately 72% (below). The risk here is that community banks continue to take on an above-average amount of CRE credit exposure. touched off a wave of bankruptcies.

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. How Banks Can Leverage: Niche markets abound in banking, and community banks are in the perfect position to create a following on a national level should they desire.

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The 2015 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Community bank marketing resources. With market opportunity heating up and big bank and big credit union competitors hitting hard, too many community banks lack marketing resources … or they have 2X more spending in sponsorships than the campaigns, analytics and digital sales improvements that actually bring in new business.

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Lenders Getting Ready for Second Round of PPP Funding

Abrigo

All of the [lenders] are in a holding pattern, but it will be like rush hour in New York or Los Angeles. Sound Community Bank AVP and Loan Systems Analyst Christian Fobian said his financial institution has been working since the first round of PPP funding ran out to get applications ready in case more money came through.

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