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Accounting About-Face

Independent Banker

She explained why lawmakers should exempt community banks from Basel III capital rule. Community bankers score big changes in final credit-loss standard. To their credit, federal regulators have already showed they are on board with the approach laid out in FASB’s final standard. Senate Banking Committee.

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Why Banks Merge: Listen to the Sellers

Jeff For Banks

"Our combined financial institution will offer a wider array of products and services while continuing our long-standing personal commitment to our customers and community." - Gregory Schreacke, President of First Financial Service Corporation in Elizabethtown, KY on his bank''s sale to Community Bank Shares of Indiana, Inc.

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Accounting Liabilities

Independent Banker

A New Accounting Twist—ICBA’s accounting expert James Kendrick tells community banks to closely watch for the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s pending new standards for recognizing credit losses, much earlier than currently required. IB: How would this affect community banks? IB: What is being proposed by FASB?

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Bridging Banking Gaps For Cannabis Companies

PYMNTS

Nowhere does that ring truer than in the nascent and growing legal cannabis industry, where billions of dollars flow the old-fashioned way — hand to hand, because of the clash between federal and state regulations over its legality. It’s about small business loans, mortgages for facilities, and funding for capital improvements.

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