by Jennifer Dixon | Mar 29, 2021 | Commercial Banking, Local Economies, National, News
Photo by throgers, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Scott Horsley, NPR | March 26, 2021 A NM Public Bank would support and grow our local banks through loan partnerships George Holland, the mayor of Moorhead, Miss., remembers the feeling when he heard that Regions Bank was...
by Jennifer Dixon | Feb 24, 2021 | News, Commercial Banking, National, Public Bank, Public Banking
A row of Chase bank ATMs in New York City is pictured in this March 24, 2020, file photo, Citing their concerns about inequitable home mortgage lending by Chase and other banks, members of a Chicago City Council committee refused to vote on a measure this week to...
by Jennifer Dixon | Oct 2, 2020 | News, Commercial Banking, Economics, Local Economies, National
Image by Eric Perlin from Pixabay By Saqib Bhatti and Brittany Alston, Action Center on Race & the Economy | September 4, 2020 As the nation adjusts to the new reality of life in a pandemic, it has become clearer than ever before that a robust social safety...
by Jennifer Dixon | Sep 15, 2020 | News, Commercial Banking
Photo by Oscar Perry Abello By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | September 15, 2020 When two banks merge, it’s often bad news for at least one of those bank’s communities. They could be merging because one of the two banks has failed, and regulators from the...
by Jennifer Dixon | Jun 15, 2020 | News, Commercial Banking, Economics, New Mexico, New Mexico News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Image courtesy occupy.com By Paul Gibson, Retake Our Democracy | June 13 2020 Like the gas & oil industry, the banking industry was teetering on the verge of collapse well before COVID-19. Many feel a recession worse than 2008 lies ahead. A public bank could...
by Jennifer Dixon | May 12, 2020 | News, Commercial Banking, COVID-19, Economics, Small Business
Photo by Phil Trease / CC BY-NC 2.0 By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City| May 12, 2020 To bolster the local economy and support small businesses, we need institutions that support small banks. Local economy advocate Stacy Mitchell saw reports about how the...