Dental practices and other privately-owned medical practices have long been attractive to banks for both financing and deposit products. Big picture, while dental practices need financing for initial capital expenditures and ongoing updates, and have operating costs that can reach 75 percent, they also have extremely low failure rates,...

The Wells Fargo fiasco has put the words “sales” and “banking” together like oil and water– bankers now are scared to even imply that they are salespeople or selling something. After all, when one of the largest banking institutions in the world opens millions of bogus accounts unbeknownst to their customers so that people could make...