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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. Another challenge is imposed by the very government that tries to assist LMI households: regulation. Since a bank can't cut regulation, they trim their branch network to lower those costs.

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Wells Fargo’s Q2 Disappoints After Scandals

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The current quarter included a 10-cent per share income tax expense. . Wayfair, which impacted how states may collect taxes on sales made by out-of-state sellers. . The San Francisco-based bank had a total of 5,751 retail branches by the end of the second quarter, citing 114 branch consolidations during the first half.

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‘Stranger Things’ And Starcourt Mall Teach Us About Big Tech And Innovation

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Unfortunately, caught up in the “Big Tech is bad” frenzy , they seem to be ignoring the innovations those platforms have created – all of them – which democratize the retail field of play to be more inclusive of small merchants in ways that were never before possible. Taxes and other measures put in place years earlier were even rolled back.