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Community Banks and Our Retirement Problem

Jeff For Banks

I recently read a report by the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions titled The Retirement Crisis and a Plan to Solve It , led by Senator Tom Harkin (D: Iowa). The employee can save all of the needed savings tax deferred. The US Government already shares with Social Security. that reads. that reads.

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Food Stamps Online: The $75B Grocery Game-Changer?

PYMNTS

Low-income consumers are far more likely to find it difficult to secure mainstream credit sources and are thus much more likely to make use of high-cost alternative credit sources when financial emergencies hit, often in the form of a payday, title, tax refund anticipation or installment loan. Is there any way out of that?

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Cultivate a better ag lending process: 7 best practices

Abrigo

The most recent Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll on farmers’ use of communications and computing technologies found in 2020 that 66% of farmers said they use a smartphone, up from 30% in 2014. Farmers are mobile, and they are using the Internet to make decisions about their farms and their finances. Streamline document collection and management.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2 It is the holding company for Home Federal Savings Bank, a $715 million in asset thrift headquartered in Rochester, Minnesota with retail banking and loan production offices in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. million on assets of $1.4

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Fintech Fundings: 30 Companies Raised $330 Million First Week of August

Fintech Labs Insights

Self-employment tax payments. HQ: Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Tags: SMB, payments, tax prep, accounting. Source: Crunchbase. Online payment service. Latest round: $15 million Series B. Total raised: $15 million. Source: Crunchbase. Mobile insurance broker. Latest round: $14.75 million Series A. Total raised: $14.75 Incubator: FinLeap.