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Bankers Are Navigating a Brave New World with Mergers and ESG

Gonzobanker

Cornerstone Advisors estimates $145 billion of pre-tax revenue has disappeared for bankers via margin compression in only the past two years. Whatever the good intentions of these new mandates, any new compliance orders require resources, change management, and an understanding of the unintended risks that could arise.

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Community banks are thriving in Texas

Independent Banker

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. Edlund adds that ANB also does working capital lending, energy lending and real estate and development lending.

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Bankers: Just Do It!

Jeff For Banks

Imagine, holding lenders accountable for the continuous pre-tax profit and ROE improvement of their loan book, like the table below. A bank CEO recently asked me if I thought using branch pre-tax profit rankings amongst all of his bank's branches would be an incentive that is consistent with the bank's strategy.

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Dodd-Frank, And Deregulation, Is In The House (Maybe)

PYMNTS

Tax season lurches to its end, and thoughts turn to who spends what and where and how. Lower capital thresholds, he said, should lower operating costs associated with regulatory compliance. In the most recent news, acting director Mick Mulvaney is using the actual agency structure to parry questions about his own leadership.

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Community Bank CEO Outlook 2022: Your priorities for the new year

Independent Banker

That’s followed by residential mortgage lending (36.3%), small business lending (32.1%), commercial and industrial (C&I) lending (30%) and agricultural lending (23.6%). For example, we don’t do mortgage lending right now, because we don’t have the compliance expertise and staff knowledge,” Silveria says.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

million gets the vaunted consumer lender a much-prized bank charter, low-cost deposits to juice current earnings, and a business lending capability to drive future growth. Lifetime Leadership Achievement Awards. SoFi’s March acquisition of Golden Pacific Bancorp for $22.3 GonzoBanker of the Year – Bank. The Bank That Gets Fintech.

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Fizzle Of The Week: The Activist CFPB

PYMNTS

And, under his leadership, the new CFPB seems bent on doing things very differently than it has in the past. percent related to prepaid cards and 2 percent to payday lending. In fact, this week, Mulvaney circulated a new mission statement for the organization, which was later leaked to The New York Times.

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