Banner Corporation, which owns Banner Bank, is acquiring Pacific Financial Corporation, the holding company for Bank of the Pacific. Bank of the Pacific is a 55-year-old bank with 18 branches and o...
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore recently signed into law two new consumer protection bills. One is the Earned Wage Access bill (SB94), which closes regulatory loopholes for app-based payday loans that allo...
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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek recently signed legislation that provides up to $1 million per year in state tax credits for three years to newly chartered Oregon banks. The tax incentives apply to Oregon-...
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Fintech OppFi is buying BNC Corp. and its subsidiary BNC National Bank in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $130 million. OppFi is a tech-enabled digital finance platform that pa...
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A new report from the Mortgage Bankers Association has found that commercial real estate mortgage borrowing and lending increased 40 percent to $706 billion in 2025. The estimate exceeds the $505 ...
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The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is urging the Trump administration to continue to make the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) online tariff refund portal efficient for sma...
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Pennsylvania-based PNC Bank recently expanded its Treasury Management insurance payments offering to include property and casualty insurance payments. Treasury Management insurance payments help i...
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The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation that exempts wildfire relief payments made to victims from federal income tax. The bill is called the Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster ...
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U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) expressed concerns over a recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) interpretive release that grants exemptions from federal securi...
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Legislation that would require the IRS to use scanning technology to speed up paper return processing has passed the U.S. House of Representatives. The legislation, Barcode Automation for Revenue ...
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