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Crowdfunding, Deferred Loan Payments Jumpstart SMB Relief

PYMNTS

As more government entities introduce measures to aid SMBs, banks and FinTechs have launched their own programs this week to accelerate access to much-needed capital for their SMB customers. have launched new crowdfunding programs to support SMBs’ need for capital. Below is a roundup of some of the most recently announced measures.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Philadelphia.

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All Pain, No Gain

Independent Banker

Community bankers offer real-world reasons for more Basel III relief. Nearly one year after the Basel III capital rules went into effect, community bankers say that now recognize just how much more complex and how much more difficult this new set of capital rules will make life and business for them if they remain in place.

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From Farce to Menace

Independent Banker

Last month the NCUA’s sweeping, 167-page proposal to hand federal credit unions virtually unlimited freedom to serve almost any person of any means anywhere rightly drew an avalanche of letters from infuriated community bankers. Basically, all air-breathing mammals in the United States would qualify to be credit union members.

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How the OCC is building Crypto America

Lex Sokolin

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing This is why the OCC has spent so many calories on defining special purpose fintech charters , and why the local community bodies hate it.

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How the OCC is building Crypto America

Lex Sokolin

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing This is why the OCC has spent so many calories on defining special purpose fintech charters , and why the local community bodies hate it.

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Chime, Uniswap, and the future of finance could soon struggle

Lex Sokolin

To the extent it pipes people to banking product, that goes to a $500 million market capitalization public company that makes prepaid cards. It doesn’t have an ILC charter from Utah, or a crypto bank charter from Wyoming, or a straight-up bank charter like Varo, nor has it acquired any banks like Lending Club or Jiko. No shenanigans.

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