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How To Do Better Against National Bank Lending Competition

South State Correspondent

Understanding the competitive banking landscape helps community banks set proper pricing, respond to rival marketing, and compete more effectively. Many existing community bank customers and prospects are also national bank customers. The largest 100 banks dominate the industry with almost 75% of the market share.

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Why Nations Fail

Chris Skinner

I was recently at a Capital Markets conference in Turkey where the main first day keynote speaker is Professor James A. Robinson from the University of Chicago and co-author of Why Nations Fail, a book that changed thinking about what makes for successful countries and what makes them fail.

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Bitcoin Daily: Nigeria’s Crypto Market Surges; Alleged Crypto Capital Operator Charged With Fraud

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Binance , Nigeria’s cryptocurrency market, has seen sign-ups surge 50 percent so far in 2020. The market is scrambling to provide users with a stablecoin. Reginald Fowler, “an alleged operator behind payment processor Crypto Capital , was charged with wire fraud” on Friday (Feb.

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If You Are Tired of Being Transactional, You Need A Hedge Program

South State Correspondent

Community banks’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times. In talking to community bankers, here are the main reasons provided: Improved Credit Quality : Banks can stabilize the borrower’s debt service coverage ratio (DSCR).

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If You Are Tired of Being Transactional, You Need A Hedge Program

South State Correspondent

Community banks’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times. In talking to community bankers, here are the main reasons provided: Improved Credit Quality : Banks can stabilize the borrower’s debt service coverage ratio (DSCR).

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Saving Main Street: Advocacy Groups Propose New Government Relief Programs

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The crisis is hardly over, but post-pandemic reality is setting in for Main Street retail. Patrice Frey, president and CEO of the National Main Street Center , is a proponent of supporting existing local economic development organizations like chambers of commerce, community foundations and Main Street programs.

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How Square’s Results Spotlight Main Street SMBs’ Resilience — And (Cash) Challenges

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And often, drilling down into business segments and management commentary provides insight into just how we as a nation are faring, depending on where you look. All eyes may be trained on Wall Street now, and Main Street too as the latest tranche of business lending gets underway. The Great Pivot. Customers stored more than $1.3

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