Credit Quality in a COVID World: It’s All About the Shape of the Recovery
Stress Testing and Planning for the Current Environment “The world has a habit of going on.” – Woodrow Wilson Backdrop Investors spent the last few years debating the cause of…
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Updates on the PPP – Insights, Forgiveness and Unknowns
It’s been up to our nation’s banks – small and large – to administer the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Plan and deliver aid to small businesses, by keeping their workforces gainfully…
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Stepping Up for the PPP – A Day in a Banker’s Life
Community banks were handed a seemingly insurmountable task in late March: design and implement processes to execute the US Treasury and SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program. Some banks lacked the requisite…
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A Bridge Over Troubled Water: A Timely Q&A with the CEO & the Marketing Communications Director of Washington Federal, A True Innovator In Community Banking
Washington Federal ($16.4B; Seattle, WA) has made news recently for its Small Business Lifeline loan program, designed to help both current and new customers get through current economic turbulence. Recently,…
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