Banking

The middle market pursues growth through technology, better banking for small businesses, and seven other things that happened this past month.

Zach Gordon, a pioneer in serving the marijuana business and senior manager of the cannabis practice at Janover LLC, shares the issues facing this new niche, and how accountants can and should work with it.

The board aims to help community banks and credit unions with the new standard.

The service is offering a direct debit payment option to allow taxpayers to pay off their tax debts.

The Internal Revenue Service has built “cash rooms” to receive federal taxes paid by marijuana companies.

French lessons; our tax system, by the numbers; return of the 1099-NEC; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is calling on Congress to allow the Internal Revenue Service to give the Department of Education information on the income of student loan borrowers, warning that student loan applicants are misrepresenting their income and family size to qualify for reduced payment plans.

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders will propose canceling the nation’s outstanding $1.6 trillion of student debt and offsetting the cost with a tax on Wall Street transactions.

No one has better visibility into the finances of a small business than their accountant.

Man will serve as chief product officer for the online financing tech provider.

There’s a strategy that’s been useful to help many clients achieve their financial objectives, while providing the tangible security required by the lender.

A new program requiring the IRS to hire collection agencies is falling far short of its goals and putting taxpayers at risk of falling prey to scammers.

The web-based tool employs machine learning technology to estimate an incremental borrowing rate curve for the leasing standard.

A looming Swiss Supreme Court ruling could add to the bank's woes.

Financial institutions are scrambling to prepare for the imminent approach of the credit losses standard.

Bank Hapoalim Ltd., Israel’s second-biggest bank, set aside an additional $246 million to settle a lengthy tax evasion investigation by U.S. authorities. The shares fell the most in more than two months.

Foldable tech, higher prices for G Suite, and eight other things that happened in technology this past month and how they’ll impact your clients and your firm.

The private firms that contract with the Internal Revenue Service to collect overdue tax debts fell short, according to a new TIGTA report.

The software company will be folded into the firm's technology consulting division.

The company is now focusing on CECL and ALLL technology for community banks after being acquired by Accel-KKR.