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Navigating the Loan Landscape: A Guide to Small Business Financing

Ublocal

Working capital is the lifeblood of any business, but it can be challenging for small business owners and entrepreneurs to get conventional financing. Below is a list of the core requirements: Must be an operating business, organized for profit Located in the U.S. and primarily operating in the U.S. Pay taxes to the U.S.

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Bank Investment: To De Novo Or Not?

Bank Innovation

Based in Bedford, New Hampshire, the new Primary Bank raised an astounding $29 million after obtaining approval for its charter on March 17th of 2015. It’s been a year since the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) conditionally approved a de novo charter for Primary Bank. But Primary Bank was not the Read More.

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Longevity Lessons From The Oldest US Credit Union

PYMNTS

Mary’s Bank of Manchester, New Hampshire, holds the distinction of being the nation’s first and oldest credit union. Membership could be obtained by spending five dollars on a share of capital stock. Mary’s was initially chartered in 1909 by the New Hampshire legislature. Founded in 1908, St. Membership to St.

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OCC outlines risk plan as Northeastern loan growth doubles

Abrigo

Credit Risk: The OCC states that the low interest rate environment, modest loan demand and lower revenue from fees is forcing banks to adapt and come up with new business models and increasing risk tolerances. The OCC plans to implement the following: • Risk management for new and high growth loan products. The OCC on Oct.

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Occupy Wall Street: Occupy This!

Jeff For Banks

Bankable" businesses typically have a profitable operating history or real estate with significant equity. So how can banks get capital to entrepreneurs with a great idea, solid business plan, and reasonable chance for success? The Nashua Bank in New Hampshire ran such a campaign and the CEO said it was a great success.

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Why It’s Time To Come Down On Bitcoin

PYMNTS

RaaS operations — Ransomware as a Service — now flourish and make it easy for the most amateur of cybercriminals to get into the game. Without bitcoin, they all say, it would be much harder to operate these massive cybercriminal rings, since they’d have no way to pay or be paid for their services. It’s a game with a pretty big payoff.

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24 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders

CB Insights

Brown, instead of managers getting stock options or guaranteed bonuses, every manager got paid $7,800 a year (the equivalent of about $14,500 today), plus “a designated percentage of the profits of the company after these are reduced by a charge for capital employed.”. The result of this type of plan was to make each manager at H.

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