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For many small businesses, whose owners spend on consumer credit cards and put up personal assets as collateral, the distinction between retail and business banking is blurry. Detra Miller, a veteran of M&T Bank’s retail side, noticed this when working with female and non-white entrepreneurs.
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Housing starts increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.530 million in October, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The increase was 4.6% above the revised September estimate of 1.459 million and is 14.2% above the October 2019 rate of 1.340 million. Single-family home starts increased 6.4% from last month.
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A community bank finds multiple ways to build relationships across a diverse region.
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The OCC is continuing its efforts, working with other agencies, to facilitate banks’ ability to engage with digital currencies, Acting Comptroller Brian Brooks said during a recent press event.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has finalized a rule that exempts from clearing requirements certain swaps entered into by financial holding companies with less than $10 billion in assets.
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The current murky picture delivered by traditional data has forced an increased focus on new methods that better capture credit risk.
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A new study from Freddie Mac shows that mortgage forbearance has played an important role in helping mortgage borrowers remain in their homes during COVID-19.
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Financial regulatory reforms implemented since the last crisis, including the Basel III framework, helped the global financial system absorb shocks related to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report released by the Basel, Switzerland-based Financial Stability Board.
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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, 85% of financial institutions said they have increased digitization efforts, according to a new survey from BAFT, ABA’s global transaction banking subsidiary, and CGI, an independent IT and business consulting firm.
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A few days shy of a court-ordered Nov. 19 deadline for the Small Business Administration to release the names, addresses and precise loan amounts for all Paycheck Protection Program loan recipients and all COVID-19-related Economic Injury Disaster Loan recipients, the federal judge who issued the order temporarily stayed it.
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ABA joined a broad coalition of groups from various industries in a letter to the Small Business Administration and Treasury Department raising concerns about the loan necessity questionnaires that SBA is using to evaluate borrowers’ good-faith certification of their economic need for Paycheck Protection Program loans.
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