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As the United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York to discuss global development, delegates must not overlook the importance of financial services for small businesses in emerging economies.

Dawson Her Many Horses, a commercial banker at Wells Fargo, is a pivotal player in an effort among tribal leaders, the federal government and the private sector to improve the availability of economic data about Native American communities to encourage outside investment there.

The $223 billion-asset bank said it will train its commercial bankers to work with clients to develop decarbonization transition plans. It also committed to reaching carbon neutrality within 12 years.

Denver-based InBank will expand into Georgia and Arizona, part of a wider plan to seize market share and build what one executive called a top-tier SBA lender.

The combination would create a company with $27 billion of total assets, $18 billion of loans and $22.6 billion of deposits.

The service was created to meet institutional clients' needs for real-time payments.

Matthew Posner is Clean Energy Advisor to City First Enterprises and Principal at Court Street Group.

Dawn Wagenaar is a brand strategist and principal of Ingenuity Marketing Group, LLC, serving accounting firms across the U.S. Since 1992, Ingenuity Marketing has been helping CPAs, attorneys, financial service professionals, engineers, consultants and other professionals develop their practices. Wagenaar has worked in professional service marketing since 1993 when she began coordinating marketing programs for a regional office of a large national insurance and financial services company. Since then she has directed the marketing efforts of a small local and a large regional CPA firm. Wagenaar has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Augsburg College in Minneapolis as well as a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a member of the Edina Chamber of Commerce, member of the Legal Marketing Association, past chair of the AAM Conference Committee of the Association for Accounting Marketing, member-at-large for AAM National Board of Directors, and president for AAM Minnesota. Reach her at dawn@ingenuitymarketing.com.

As cannabis becomes more and more commonplace, reasonable people might wonder why Congress hasn't made it easier for banks to serve legal cannabis businesses. But maybe giving big banks and capital markets a green light to dive into cannabis with both feet is an outcome worth avoiding.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued guidance on the use of artificial intelligence in credit underwriting, saying that creditors are relying too heavily on a CFPB checklist and sample forms when they should provide specificity to explain why a consumer is denied credit.