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Emclaire Financial in Emlenton, Pa., has raised $8 million in a private placement of its common stock.
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Summit State Bank in Santa Rosa, Calif., has exited the Small Business Lending Fund.
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A fifth of the financial institutions that participated in the Small Business Lending Fund have fully left the program and an increasing number of banks are joining them before the dividend rate jumps to 9% next year.
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Emclaire Financial in Emlenton, Pa., has exited the Small Business Lending Fund.
The $597 million-asset bank paid about $5 million to redeem 5,000 shares of preferred stock, a spokesperson for the bank said. Emclaire issued its original 10,000 shares to the U.S. Treasury Department in August 2011 and redeemed half of those shares in 2013.
A large number of small banks have exited the SBLF program in recent months, as low interest rates provide an
Banks also have an incentive to exit the SBLF program soon, as the dividend rate is scheduled to rise to 9% on Jan. 1, up from its current 2% rate.
