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Trust and tax services: Worth offering?

Independent Banker

To satisfy the banking needs of some commercial and high-net-worth clients, some community banks provide trust and tax strategy services. Launching new services to cross-sell to existing customers is one path to organic growth for a community bank. For some banks, those services include specialty trust and tax strategy services.

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Rebeca Romero Rainey: Focusing on our communities

Independent Banker

Unlike our credit union counterparts, we pay taxes, and those tax dollars are spent at home to ensure our communities grow. As we kick off Community Banking Month, I can’t help but reflect on that statement and the changes of this past year. And community banks are the heartbeat of these efforts.

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Empowering Your Financial Advisors With Salesforce

Perficient

Through Salesforce, of course! Tax season was approaching, and Jane, a Financial Advisor employed by Faux Advisors Group, wanted to target clients and prospects that would benefit from using tax-aware asset allocation (moving high-yield assets to a tax-deferred or exempt account to help decrease taxable income).

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Treasurers Have Mixed Outlook On Tax Reform, TD Bank Survey Says

PYMNTS

tax reform on their organizations. Forty-two percent of professionals surveyed said they believe tax reform will lead to significant economic benefits for their organizations, TD Bank said. as a result of tax reform. A new survey from TD Bank suggests corporate treasurers have mixed outlooks on the impact of U.S.

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Tax Reform Not Enough To Convince Corporates To Spend, AFP Finds

PYMNTS

Tax reform played a key role for several corporate successes in the first quarter of 2018. “Together, these factors mean that companies could invest more funds, hire employees and generally spend on both their businesses and communities.”

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Relationship Pricing is Key to Performance

South State Correspondent

Community banks pride themselves on superior customer service. Approximately 90% of all community banks believe that they provide an above-average level of customer service (of course, the math cannot work that way, as half of all banks should be providing a below-average level of customer service).

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Loan Structuring with an Inverted Yield Curve

South State Correspondent

With the debt ceiling uncertainty, an undecided Fed Reserve, and concern about credit quality, this is a perfect opportunity for community bankers to be trusted financial advisors. Borrowers are currently desperately seeking a trusted advisor to help guide them through this period of uncertainty.

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