written by by Gregg Early, BankTalentHQ Let’s not talk about the past year. Let’s take the long view and talk about the past decade and a half. For nearly all of that time we lived in a “next normal” of quantitative easing, which brought along with it easy money and sustained low interest rates. It…
DetailsCapitala Group (Capitala) is an asset management firm that has been providing private credit and private equity capital to lower middle-market small businesses throughout North America for over twenty years. Since our inception in 1998, Capitala has invested over $2.2 billion in small businesses and strives to make an impact through responsible investing and a…
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By Neal Reynolds, President, BankMarketingCenter.com I was thinking… what better way to tell the “why ChatGPT” story than to, well, let ChatGPT’s AI writing assistant tell you himself… or herself… not sure about this… maybe “itself”? Anyway, when I prompted the assistant to “write a 750-word article on how to get the most of out…
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By Jim Reber, ICBA Securities If your responsibilities include your community bank’s bond portfolio, you’ve been confounded by several elements of its performance in the last 18 months. To the extent your portfolio has mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and government agency bonds, and the clear majority of all bonds owned by banks are in these two…
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