Facts and Stats

May 01, 2013
47% of loans for start-up funding comes from small Community banks
Entrepreneur *

May 01, 2013
82% of capital for start-ups is self-funded, 41% from Loans, 41% Lines of Credit, 24% friends and family, 3% crowdfunding, 1% venture capital
Entrepreneur *

May 05, 2015
Over 31,000 companies were created between January and March of 2015. That is an increase of more than 50 percent on last year's figures.
SME Insider *

Mar 24, 2015
Community Banking is the primary source of lending for small business and farms
Independent Community Bankers of America *

Mar 24, 2015
Community Banking gives 2.4 million trillion in loans to consumers small business and the agricultural community
Independent Community Bankers of America *

Mar 24, 2015
Community Banking has $2.9 trillion in deposits
Independent Community Bankers of America *

Mar 24, 2015
Community Banking holds $3.6 trillion in assets
Independent Community Bankers of America *

Mar 24, 2015
Community Banking employs 700,000 Americans
Independent Community Bankers of America *

May 01, 2015
80% of retail CEOs say that technological advances will significantly impact business in the next five years.
CCE *

Oct 31, 2014
By 2018, more than three quarters (78 percent) of workloads will be processed by cloud data centers; 22 percent will be processed by traditional data centers.     
Cisco *