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Remembering 9/11 – A Pivotal Day for BSA/AML Professionals

Abrigo

September 11, 2001 will stay with Americans forever. T he events that unfolded in that bright blue sky on September 11, 2001 will stay with Americans forever. BSA was intended to detect illicit activity through cash and monetary instruments to catch tax evaders using secret foreign bank accounts. Never Forget.

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Where People Spent Stimulus Payments – And Where They Didn’t

PYMNTS

A recent report by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) finds that recipients of the initial $2.2 In one example, with the 2001 tax rebates, households spent roughly 20 percent to 40 percent of those funds in the first quarter after receiving them, with two-thirds spent over the first six months.

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Prepare for stronger C&I lending demand: A $1.7 trillion “wave”

Abrigo

Indeed, measuring C&I balances from the low to the high of an expansionary period shows commercial lending grew by the following amounts during recent upcycles: 1993-2001: 87.5% Commercial loan balances historically fall during economic slowdowns, then increase substantially during the growth cycles that follow downturns. 2004-2008: 82.6%

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Can Non-U.S. Residents Open U.S. Brokerage Accounts to Trade Stocks?

MyBankTracker

Additionally, you’ll likely end up being asked to sign a W-8BEN (also known as the Certificate of Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding and Reporting form). If it does, you might end up paying higher taxes. Unfortunately, after 2001, laws were passed to make sure that no non-U.S. Taxes to Consider.

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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

The BEA calculates the personal saving rate by subtracting taxes from personal income to arrive at “disposable personal income” and then subtracts personal outlays. Adding to the observation is the fact that from roughly 2001-2006, a devastating housing price bubble formed due to lax lending standards.

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Guest Post: FInancial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

We have one year to go to match the longest expansion since World War II, which was the prosperous period engineered by Maestro Greenspan from March, 1991 to March, 2001. This is because the economy has been gaining momentum, however modest, from the tax cuts and deregulation. The economy has grown 2.2%

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24 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders

CB Insights

It also owns 50 subsidiary companies that have 200 more subsidiaries themselves, including Geico (acquired in 1996), Dairy Queen (1997), and Fruit of the Loom (2001). You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” ( 2001 ). In spring 2001, Cisco’s shareholders had lost a total of 28.6%

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