When Black business owner Jennifer Kelly applied for an emergency loan for small businesses through a major bank last spring, she found herself shut out. Kelly, who runs a clinical psychology practice ...

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Community banks consistently outperform big banks in customer satisfaction, scoring 83 out of 100 compared to 79 for national banks in 2025. Local banks often offer better deposit rates and lower fees ...

About ten years ago, Charles Mark Hall, a Raleigh, N.C.-based advisor, started linking up with local community banks in North Carolina and offering the customers there financial advice. It’s not ...

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- When money-market funds emerged in the 1970s as a higher-yield alternative to conventional savings accounts, Americans raced to their local banks in droves to pull their ...

When it comes to government-backed small business loans, a little known $14 billion tech-focused bank in North Carolina called Live Oak dominates. Unfortunately Wall Street pays it no respect. Ifsmall ...

Sarah Gillis switched from a national bank to a local one in New Jersey as a matter of principle. "I feel like my voice matters more in a smaller bank," says Gillis, who closed her account at a ...