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PPP is Not a Free Lunch for Banks

During the post-prohibition era in the 1930s, bars offered free lunches to their patrons to get them to buy drinks. 40 years later, Milton Friedman famously summed up the study of economics with the quip – “There is no such thing as a free lunch” or...

Should Community Banks and Credit Unions Worry About Blockchain?

There is more hype, discussion and disagreement about Blockchain than any other technology impacting financial services today.

Fintech in 2017: Risk management takes center stage

A day in the life of the gentleman banker was once described by the 3-6-3 rule – accept deposits at three percent, loan money at six percent and tee off at the golf course at 3 p.m. The financial services industry can rightfully state that it has...