Abrigo

DECEMBER 18, 2023

WATCH Takeaway 1 Banks and credit unions are critical sources of capital for businesses in their communities, so how institutions assess CRE credits matters. Critical capital Should CRE lending be off the table? But that might not be the best move for your financial institution or your community.

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Risk Management Management Lending Capital 221

Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Independent Banker ’s annual Community Bank CEO Outlook survey reveals how community bank leaders plan to leverage today’s deposit-laden banking environment to grow this year. Janet Silveria, Community Bank of Santa Maria. So, what’s at the top of community bank leaders’ to-do lists? What changes will 2022 bring?

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Abrigo

AUGUST 28, 2019

Slow lending decisions and frustrating loan application processes are among borrowers’ biggest gripes with traditional financial institutions vs competitors such as online or alternative lenders. Importantly, the borrower can upload financial statements and tax returns from home or the office.

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Lending Analysis Taxes Data 150

Gonzobanker

MAY 31, 2019

Financial institutions that want to play in the small business lending sandbox need to bring their digital toys. article , former Small Business Administration administrator Karen Mills said community banks with strong small business customer bases that don’t find new ways to serve them digitally are going to face a “reckoning.”

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Banks involved in ag lending understand that the volatility of the industry – unpredictable weather patterns, variable commodity prices and more – can often lead to higher amounts of risk compared to other concentrations. By improving policies and procedures, banks can make better and more profitable ag lending decisions.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Financial institutions considering lending to nonprofits may want to be aware of these recent financial trends, as well as some of the ways lending to these organizations might differ from lending to for-profit businesses. Here are two mistakes to avoid when lending to nonprofits , according to the firm: 1.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Small business hiring may have petered out in January, but lending to SMBs certainly didn’t. The latest Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index found SMB lending among large financial institutions (FIs) continued to climb, reaching a 25.3 percent approval rate in January.

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Lending Taxes Regional Analysis 108

Jeff For Banks

APRIL 30, 2022

Me: Commercial Real Estate loans are the most profitable product in a community bank's arsenal and have been through various interest rate environments. Since I rely heavily on data, I poured through my firm's product profitability reports that aggregates the answers from all of our clients. The pre-tax ROA might not look great.

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Lending Massachusetts Taxes Community Bank 78

Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

Executive committee members tell us what advocacy issues they’ll be focused on during their terms, while board members share their words of wisdom for up-and-coming community bankers: themselves. To sum it up, these leaders are all in and all heart for community banking. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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Community Bank Community Industry Texas 239

Abrigo

MAY 1, 2020

Some borrowers are reporting they cannot maintain employee hiring or compensation levels while government stay-at-home orders are in effect. or who received annualized pay of more than $100,000 during any period in 2019; state and local employer taxes assessed on an employee’s compensation (i.e., Lending & Credit Risk.

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Taxes Lending Payments Report 195

Abrigo

APRIL 22, 2024

Recent dynamics of the small business lending market A deep understanding of the small business lending landscape and potential efficiencies can help banks and credit unions grow their portfolios. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending. Record new business formation and a wider gap between U.S.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 12, 2018

When I first read Standards Needed for Safe, Small Installment Loans from Banks, Credit Unions by the Pew Charitable Trusts that encouraged financial institutions to get back into small ticket consumer lending, I thought “what are they nuts!” So why would banks expand small-ticket, unsecured personal lending? Even the big banks.

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Lending Resources Community Metro 60

Abrigo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

You might also like this webinar, How the 2021 Roadmap for Producers will Influence Ag Lending. We always advise landowners to undergo an assessment to protect these funds from taxes and help them to create entity strategies or fund new equipment for the greatest value. Stay up-to-date on the latest on ag lending trends.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 20, 2017

and New York Community Bancorp called off their planned merger. Today, I read an American Banker article on how a multi-billion dollar bank is going to ramp up its business lending. To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending.

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Lending Regulation Community Community Bank 60

PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

Last month, reports in The Wall Street Journal , citing Federal Reserve data, found that nearly one-third of U.S. As online lending platforms proliferate among the SMB borrowing community, however, experts warn that a lack of regulation means these companies rarely publicly reveal interest rates and fees.

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Lending New York Online New Jersey 136

Abrigo

JANUARY 14, 2021

Takeaway 1 This round of PPP funding focuses on new borrowers in low- and moderate-income communities. . There is no doubt that the COVID-19 global pandemic has challenged communities across the country and has created a significant economic downturn, which has hit small businesses especially hard. PPP Fraud Spikes.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

and finance experts are celebrating with new data on the state of the entrepreneurial community. Fifty-four percent of small business owners say they are optimistic about the national economy , found Bank of America’s 2018 Business Advantage Small Business Owner Report. National Small Business Week is this week in the U.S.,

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Taxes America National Community 144

Abrigo

MAY 5, 2017

How are you going to know if the institution even lends to your industry unless it says it does? Providing information will help the borrower have realistic expectations and address some concerns with transparency and communication.” Imagine you are a business borrower looking for a loan,” he said.

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Survey Online Lending Taxes 150

PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The poll was conducted by a San Francisco-based advocacy group called Small Business Majority, and its CEO John Arensmeyer has been a proponent of community grants that exist outside of the formal banking system that has controlled government aid up to this point. Most small businesses don’t have a lending relationship with a bank.

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Maine Groups San Francisco Lending 142

PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

The breach of a tool that parents and students can use to streamline the student lending process has allowed information for 100,000 taxpayers to get out into the wild, according to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen on Thursday. The scam led to about 8,000 fraudulent refunds — worth about $30 million.

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Tools Data Taxes Fraud 100

Abrigo

APRIL 15, 2020

Community financial institutions have worked non-stop since learning of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to understand the details, take applications, and get loans through the SBA E-Tran system so that fellow business owners in their communities can retain or bring back workers. Lending & Credit Risk. SBA Lending.

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Lending Philadelphia Payments Community 221

Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. Corporate relocations and expansions—influenced by factors like affordability, low corporate tax rates, no personal income tax and a rich talent pool—have contributed to a momentum that isn’t likely to subside soon. Photo by Dennis Burnett. By Mindy Charski.

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Texas San Antonio Community Bank Community 182

Abrigo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Now is the time for community financial institutions to pay attention. T he CBOT enforcement action states that the bank failed to report hundreds of suspicious transactions to FinCEN even after the bank became aware that specific customer s were involved in criminal investigations. Fundamentals of BSA.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Absent a boot from tax benefits that lifted earnings by 23 cents, adjusted earnings were $2.59, better than the $2.50 In tandem with other financial sector firms that reported uneven results from non-consumer segments, JPMorgan said fixed-income trading garnered $3.7 Revenues were up 4 percent year on year to $29.6 billion expected.

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Mobile Cards Community Bank Conference 108

Jeff For Banks

JUNE 30, 2017

There were ideas in the book to accomplish this that I must report to you: a) Subsidize banks to serve customers with financial instability who are not profitable. Dodd-Frank, the CFPB, and regulators "disparate impact" doctrine are pushing community financial institutions out of consumer banking. They pay no Federal income taxes.

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America Report Pennsylvania Regulation 60

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

LendingClub reported double-digit loan origination growth in the third quarter, outpaced by a jump over the same period for application. Overall, the company reported a top line that was up nearly 20 percent to $184.6 million, beating consensus by about $2.6 The company said it had loan originations of $2.9

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Taxes Management Risk Management Capital 159

CFPB Monitor

MARCH 17, 2020

FHFA describes PACE transactions as being part of residential energy retrofitting programs that are created through special state legislation and result in the financed part of the transaction resulting in a tax assessment on the home, which is a ‘‘super-priority lien’’ over existing and subsequent first mortgages. (As

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Reports in Accountancy Daily on Monday (April 29) said the Corporate Finance Network is calling on U.K. Reports in Accountancy Daily on Monday (April 29) said the Corporate Finance Network is calling on U.K. But the scheme faced some of its harshest attacks yet at the hands of the Corporate Finance Network, a U.K.

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Policies Capital Lending Report 148

Abrigo

OCTOBER 21, 2019

It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but for many community financial institutions, a spectrum of different customers and banking needs is something that they see every day. A farmer, a university student, and a business owner walk into a bank. However, they’re probably seeing fewer of these customers walking into a physical branch.

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Oklahoma Millennials Innovation Technology 218

PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. Then, there’s IBM and its most recent earnings report.

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Fintech blockchain Lending Digital Banking 183

Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

But there are ways community banks can help mortgage-seekers get on the property ladder. According to the 2022 Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends Report published by the NAR, there are some clear generational trends in the homebuying market. So how can community banks help? By Beth Mattson-Teig.

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Community Bank Community Millennials Resources 143

Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Competition and regulatory risk in car lending race off. Vehicle loan originations reached almost $120 billion during the second quarter of 2015, states the New York Fed’s Household Debt and Credit Report. Indirect auto lending has played a major role for Security Federal Savings Bank in Jasper, Ala. By Howard Schneider.

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Community Bank Lending Community Security 70

Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Competition and regulatory risk in car lending race off. Vehicle loan originations reached almost $120 billion during the second quarter of 2015, states the New York Fed’s Household Debt and Credit Report. Indirect auto lending has played a major role for Security Federal Savings Bank in Jasper, Ala. By Howard Schneider.

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Community Bank Lending Community Security 70

PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2017

In an interview with The Associated Press , McMahon pointed to a divide in the SMB community: feelings of both optimism and frustration over lack of access to finance. In particular, regulations around taxes and healthcare are a challenge to small business owners today, she said.

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Training Community Taxes Resources 101

PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

Below, PYMNTS breaks down some of the most important data points from a range of research reports on the state of the U.S. Of them, just 19 percent have opened a line of credit, a figure that causes concern for Bank of America Head of Small Business Sharon Miller, who said the data point is “too low,” Reuters reported last week.

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Survey America Analysis Data 115

PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

Hong Kong is known for its simple and predictable tax system, making it an attractive place for investment. FinTech startups in particular must jump through tough regulatory hoops, making it difficult to establish payment firms, crowdfunding platforms, peer-to-peer lending schemes and even obtain secure operating licenses.

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Taxes Fintech Marketing Regional 100

FirstInternet

JUNE 30, 2020

SBA makes funds available to non-profit, community-based lenders to extend to eligible borrowers. Possible additions to the basic timeline could include a client list; detailing past successes and community involvement can also be advantageous. Credit reports : Here’s where your previous check of the credit rating services pays off.

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Taxes Lending Community Capital 98