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More PPP Funds Would Help CDFIs Lend Money To Micro Businesses

PYMNTS

Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) are hoping more Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funding is passed by Congress soon so that smaller businesses left behind can stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Tuesday (April 14) report in the Wall Street Journal.

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Entering the cannabis banking market

Independent Banker

Neil Zick, president and CEO of Twin City Bank, helped Tim Norris obtain financing to start The Link Cannabis Co. When Oklahoma legalized the sales of cannabis for medicinal purposes in 2018, executives of $550 million-asset Blue Sky Bank in Tulsa, Okla., It’s a strategy that an increasing number of community banks are embracing.

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