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Widening Borrower Protection’s Scope To SMBs

PYMNTS

When it comes time to apply for financing, he said, it’s often because there’s an emergency – they must make payroll or find cash for an upcoming tax bill, for instance. Indeed, thanks to their digital-first approach, financing via one such platform can offer a convenient, strategic source of capital for growing SMBs.

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Bankers: Five Ways to Use Profitability Data to Move You Forward

Jeff For Banks

On a recent Pennsylvania Institute of CPA podcast , Bob Kafafian from my firm was asked how to use management information. It should be part of your capital plan. The same for ROE improvement for lenders, or pre-tax profit improvement by branch managers. I'm sure at one point of the word's evolution it wasn't this way.

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The eCommerce Bachelor: Which City Will Get The Rose?

PYMNTS

Others are offering standard fare such as tax credits — although even that can’t be viewed as “standard” in this race. New Jersey, for instance, is offering more than the price of Amazon’s investment in tax credits, to the tune of $7 billion, if the company puts HQ2 in Newark. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Doña Ana County.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2018 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. This is clearly a turnaround situation, as the bank lost over $12 million in 2010, over 20% of its capital (ouch). But once they turned things around they took their deferred tax asset back onto their books and did three acquisition. And to them I say.

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Microsoft Marketing Vet Jeremy Korst Joins Avalara as New CMO

Fintech Labs Insights

Starting in 2017 former Microsoft executive Jeremy Korst will be the man driving the message at tax compliance innovator and FinDEVr alum , Avalara. He has a BA in Economics, Politics, and Government from the University of Puget Sound, and a MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

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The social responsibility of banks is to increase profits.

Jeff For Banks

Franklin Financial Services Corporation, parent company for F&M Trust Bank in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, invests in the Franklin Future Fund, a non-bank investment company that makes venture capital investments in the Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, and Southern Huntingdon counties. Let me explain. Could it work for you?

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The social responsibility of banks is to increase profits.

Jeff For Banks

Franklin Financial Services Corporation, parent company for F&M Trust Bank in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, invests in the Franklin Future Fund, a non-bank investment company that makes venture capital investments in the Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, and Southern Huntingdon counties. Let me explain. Could it work for you?