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Highlights From Federal Bank Regulators’ Joint Statement on Cryptocurrency Assets

Perficient

As always, the regulators’ main concern was to promote safety and soundness, consumer protection, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including anti-money laundering (AML) and illicit finance statutes and rules. Ancillary custody services. Facilitation of customer purchases and sales of crypto assets.

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Banks are Flush With Cash, For Now

TrustBank

In its most basic form, a bank takes in money from savers (depositors), agrees to pay them a certain interest rate and then uses those funds to lend to borrowers at a higher interest rate, thus earning the difference as their income. Sometimes, banks do not lend out all that they can. The net result is very low interest rates.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. I want to read to you the FDIC’s conclusion from their An Examination of the Banking Crisis of the 1980’s and Early 1990’s. Who would’ve thought lending $1 million to a San Francisco cab driver to buy a house at 100% loan to value would go bad? What caused it?

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E-Signature Approval

Independent Banker

Legally and operationally, digital John Hancocks come of age in lending. Electronic signatures “absolutely” have helped PrivatePlus Mortgage expand its residential mortgage lending reach nationwide, says Lia Webster. Initial loan disclosures and closing statements are the main mortgage documents using e-signing. Fewer errors.

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The Thinker

Independent Banker

Thoughtful lending and an open mind keep profits strong for incoming ICBA chairman Jack Hartings. in Coldwater, Ohio, and ICBA’s incoming chairman, held fast to his community bank’s conservative lending practices. s main office in Coldwater. Jack Hartings Photo by Michael Nemeth. By Kelly Pike. The Peoples Bank Co.

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Pew Talks Payday Loans

PYMNTS

These days, payday lending is not a subject that lends itself to much in the way of rational discourse. Opponents of the practice note that, in its most vicious form, payday lending is an expensive predatory scourge on the class of borrowers it attracts, drawing them into a confusing and protracted cycle of debt. Bourke asked.

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