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Trust and tax services: Worth offering?

Independent Banker

To satisfy the banking needs of some commercial and high-net-worth clients, some community banks provide trust and tax strategy services. For some banks, those services include specialty trust and tax strategy services. is one community bank that offers a wide range of trust and tax services. By Don Sadler.

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The Millennial Real Estate Boom Beckons?

PYMNTS

In the 2020 National Housing Forecast from Realtor.com , a number of predictions stand out, among them that home price growth will flatten, to a rate of about 80 basis points. Meanwhile, shoppers from expensive Northeast markets will find the warmer options in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida attractive.

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Fintech Fundings: 13 Companies Raise $900 Million Week Ending Nov 12

Fintech Labs Insights

Other than Blackstone’s $820 million bet on what is likely the oldest financial technology company on the planet, NCR founded in 1884 as National Cash Register, just $82 million flowed to the under-100-year-old crowd. HQ: Duluth, Georgia. HQ: National, Maryland. It was a quieter week in fintech fundings. Source: WSJ.

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Fizzle Of The Week: Bitcoin — The Bad Neighbor

PYMNTS

For those not used to thinking about electricity by the gigawatt, the estimates mean this: Even at the low end, bitcoin mining uses as much power as a nation state. The debate is whether that nation state is small (Lithuania-sized), medium (Morocco-sized) or medium-large (Israel-sized). Use of power is not very evenly distributed.

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Advocacy: Election Returns

Independent Banker

With congressional candidates and incumbents across the nation in full campaign mode this summer, this is an excellent opportunity to share how ICBA is affecting what is already a dramatic election season. Familiar Friends—Georgia community bankers meet with Sen. Keeping community banking interests front and center.

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10 Lessons We Learned at the Nacha Smarter Faster Payment Conference

South State Correspondent

Its ability to detect and uncover money laundering and fraud at scale, including those perpetrated by organized crime, terror financing, and nation-state actors, is unparalleled. The FDX library touches deposits, cards, consumer loans, investments, insurance, small businesses, tax reporting, fraud, treasury, and payroll.