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Small banks: Big challenges and big opportunities

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Relationship focus helps CFIs Small banks can leapfrog competitors and better serve their communities by combining their unique advantages with smart management and partnerships. How can community financial institution leaders manage their challenges and seize their opportunities at the same time?

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Onward Financial’s Employer-Backed Payday Loan Alternative

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Regulators can ban payday loans – but no one can ban cars that break down, heating systems that drop dead in the middle of the winter, medical crises or any of the myriad unexpected financial events that send consumers running to the embrace of short-term lenders. In other words, a payday loan from the source of the paycheck.

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Congress Presses Fed On Real-Time Payments Plan

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Despite some previous pushback, the Fed, represented by Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President and Chief Executive Officer Esther L. George, was met with widespread support from her fellow witnesses. Accessibility Beyond Big Banks.

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