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The $300B Employee Financial Stress Tax On Employers

PYMNTS

It’s estimated through various studies that close to 50 percent of employees in the workforce today would not be able to meet a $400 financial need without having to borrow money or sell an asset that they own today. The company has established a lending relationship with an FDIC-insured bank.

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Stablecoin Outlook Anything But Stable As Regulation, Legislation Loom

PYMNTS

Companies that seek to issue stablecoins will have to get approval from the Fed, the FDIC and other regulators at least six months prior to launch. Recently, a BIS study concluded that embedded regulation might offer a solution for stablecoins.

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A Solution for Closely Held Banks

Jeff For Banks

The ESOP is funded with tax-deductible contributions by the employer in the form of company stock, or in the case of the Old Fort ESOP, with cash that was used to purchase company stock. The bank can then make tax-deductible contributions to the ESOP to service the loan. Their may be tax benefits to the selling shareholder.

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De Novo Banks: Only Apply If You Intend to Matter

Jeff For Banks

Sure, if you cite studies that say these banks' loan books are predominantly small, as the FDIC measures them. See the accompanying chart for the loan composition for all FDIC-insured banks and thrifts with less than $1 billion in total assets. I'm skeptical. So the bank necessarily hunts for smaller relationships.

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CFPB: Are They Coming to Get You?

Jeff For Banks

According to my firm's profitability peer group, a branch with $74 million in average deposits made a mere pre-tax profit of three basis points. If we lose 4% of FDIC-insured institutions per year, which was pre-pandemic pace, we will have ~ 3,300 institutions in 10 years. There are benefits to scale.

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The Thinker

Independent Banker

FDIC Advisory Committee on Community Banking, member. He studies and is a no-nonsense kind of guy with high expectations of himself and others. ICBA Services Network Board of Directors, member. Large Community Bank Council, member. Regulation Review Committee, vice chairman. Membership-Marketing. Committee, member. Kelly Pike.

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