Community Banks Increase Lending to Small Business

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We know the broad outlines of starting a business. You have an idea, find an investor or lender for funding, then go at it. Around Birmingham community banks are increasingly getting in on that small business lending action. That’s where we start the conversation in this week’s Magic City Marketplace.

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