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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Philadelphia.

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From Farce to Menace

Independent Banker

Even as nearly one-third of Americans are already members of a credit union, it seems there’s almost nothing the NCUA still won’t try to further expand the market reach and special tax-exempt privileges of the credit unions it supervises. Talk about your captive regulator! When credit unions say “jump,” the NCUA says, “how high?”.

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Excited To Help People

Independent Banker

His collection of shot glasses, each bearing a particular state’s name or emblem as tangible evidence of his visits to those states, is complete after a recent trip through the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and then, lastly, Alaska. In rural communities like ours, the consumer has a lot of needs,” he explains.

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All Pain, No Gain

Independent Banker

Community bankers offer real-world reasons for more Basel III relief. Nearly one year after the Basel III capital rules went into effect, community bankers say that now recognize just how much more complex and how much more difficult this new set of capital rules will make life and business for them if they remain in place.

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How the OCC is building Crypto America

Lex Sokolin

They have not been distributed by fiduciaries to the mass market. Selling a diversified, cheap asset allocation as your core investment is a stable market equilibrium. This is why the OCC has spent so many calories on defining special purpose fintech charters , and why the local community bodies hate it. It is logic.

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How the OCC is building Crypto America

Lex Sokolin

They have not been distributed by fiduciaries to the mass market. Selling a diversified, cheap asset allocation as your core investment is a stable market equilibrium. This is why the OCC has spent so many calories on defining special purpose fintech charters , and why the local community bodies hate it. It is logic.

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Chime, Uniswap, and the future of finance could soon struggle

Lex Sokolin

To the extent it pipes people to banking product, that goes to a $500 million market capitalization public company that makes prepaid cards. Instead, it is replacing payday lending as an industry. This model gives visibility in the public markets to what Chime may try to sound like. Just in 2019, Chime raised at a $1.5

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