PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

Frankly, whenever miners arrive, communities aren’t so willing to roll out a red carpet — because, as neighbors go, miners are kind of a fizzle. Read, bitcoin is something of a public nuisance for the community, as miners have started showing up in droves to set up companies that can make use of the town’s unusually low power costs.

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ABA Community Banking

JANUARY 31, 2022

The outgoing FDIC chairman discusses bank innovation, FDITech, post-COVID exams and the agency's COVID response in part one of this interview. The post Podcast: Exit Interview with Jelena McWilliams, Part 1 appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Ublocal

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The money is saved before taxes, so it can grow without being taxed until you take it out. The money can grow without being taxed, or you can pay taxes now and not later, depending on the type of IRA. It lets you keep all the tax benefits without having to start over.

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Independent Banker

JULY 29, 2016

Around the Table—Wisconsin community bankers work with legislative staff members on Capitol Hill during ICBA’s Washington Policy Summit. Keeping community banking interests front and center. Rally more than 3,000 community bankers each year who support ICBPAC, ICBA’s federal political action committee for community banking.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

When the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 passed, the top capital gains tax rate was lowered, providing yet another incentive for equity speculators to pour money into the fledgling internet industry. Although community banks did not lend to sub-prime borrowers in any meaningful way, did we participate? We took a serious reputational hit.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 25, 2015

Sure, if you cite studies that say these banks' loan books are predominantly small, as the FDIC measures them. I'm also skeptical that small community banks in general are financing startup businesses. See the accompanying chart for the loan composition for all FDIC-insured banks and thrifts with less than $1 billion in total assets.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As the FDIC said recently: Exceptions to policy should be few in number and properly justified, approved, and tracked. and property tax payments. Get details in "A guide to implementing credit policy." There probably should be no more than 3-5 exception types in each of those major categories.

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ABA Community Banking

MARCH 23, 2020

today joined the chorus of voices—including FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams—calling for the Financial Accounting Standards Board to suspend and delay its Current Expected Credit Loss standard amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a bipartisan letter, Reps. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) The post Reps.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 20, 2017

and New York Community Bancorp called off their planned merger. To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending. It shows the pre-tax profit as a percent of the loan portfolios measured. And regulators are getting anxious.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 23, 2016

According to a 2015 FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households , seven percent of US households were unbanked, meaning they had no account at an insured financial institution, and 19% were underbanked, meaning they used non-traditional financial providers like pre-paid cards and/or payday lenders. But the tax thing.

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American Banker

JANUARY 24, 2020

Bankers may not want to hear this, but communities benefit when credit unions buy banks.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

in Coldwater, Ohio, and ICBA’s incoming chairman, held fast to his community bank’s conservative lending practices. What concerned me most wasn’t that the customer was upset with me,” recalls Hartings of the homebuyers who ignored his community bank’s cautiously pragmatic approach. “I Jack got us through that just fine.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

In June, five federal agencies (including FDIC, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve) announced approval of a final rule that modifies regulations applying to loans secured by properties located in special flood hazard areas. There is an exception that will be key for many community banks to understand.

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 22, 2014

My firm measures line of business and product profitability for dozens of community financial institutions, and hardly any of them make real money in retail investment sales, if they make any money at all. The most profitable program that we measure, on a pre-tax profit as percent of revenue basis, is one that is totally outsourced.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But not all community development advocates are convinced that the changes are for the better. The proposed changes laid out by banking regulators would clear up confusion about what qualifies for CRA credit within so-called Opportunity Zones.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 26, 2015

Community banks and their customers don’t need to be concerned about the legality of digitally signed documents. Webster says FDIC officials had “no issue” with the mortgage company’s use of electronic signatures during a recent exam of PrivatePlus Mortgage. Legal aspects.

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Filene

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Earlier this summer, Filene released a research report that examined a systemic problem we face in this country—the lack of accessible financial service options in many low-income, urban communities. They produced a “Don’t Tax My Credit Union” video for Congress in support of credit unions. Project Teen Money.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 5, 2021

Shouldn't the CFPB work to address the impediments to starting a bank in LMI markets rather than punish community banks who scrambled to serve their customers when the economy shut down? 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.

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American Banker

JULY 8, 2020

Backers say a bill to limit asset growth instead of restricting brokered funds addresses concerns about expanding balance sheets at troubled banks. But skeptics worry it would open the door to greater risk.

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Long Lasting Ideas

JULY 25, 2018

When Congress passed the White House-backed tax reform legislation late last year, we at BankMarketingCenter.com tried to strike a positive chord, pointing to community banks that had increased wages and bonuses for employees. Continue reading Trump Tax Cuts – Benefiting Wall Street or Main Street?

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Nothing seems to put a bounce in a banker’s step more than a tax break and regulatory relief, and this bountiful energy was radiating at Bank Director’s annual “mecca” for bank M&A in Phoenix last week – Acquire or be Acquired. For those in the know – simply AOBA. The chatter at AOBA centered on three important topics: #1: The Breaks.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Such prohibition could involve limiting FDIC protections for those deposits, for example, or trying to prevent loans to those businesses. The speakers told stories of violent armed robberies, money laundering and tax evasion, among other negative impacts of a cash-based industry. Cash Dangers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Such prohibition could involve limiting FDIC protections for those deposits, for example, or trying to prevent loans to those businesses. They told stories of violent armed robberies, money laundering and tax evasion, among other negative impacts of a cash-based industry. Cash Dangers.

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