ABA Community Banking

JANUARY 14, 2021

On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, ABA Government Relations Council Chair Jim Rieniets outlines policy areas where ABA will focus in 2021. The post Podcast: The Year Ahead in Banker Advocacy appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Policies Leadership Community Bank Community 59

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Financial institutions went from having no PPP lending program at all to funding their first loan in 90 days – and this with literally last-minute regulatory guidance. Expect more cost-driven MOEs in 2021! BCU has worked tenaciously to create a near-lights-out lending process with its consumer originations. Lucky 2021?

Idaho 170

Idaho Community Industry Strategy 170

Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

ICBA’s National Community Bank Service Award winners for 2021 demonstrate that when their local areas need support, community banks are there with innovative, compassionate and thoughtful responses. The KSB Lends a Hand program took anniversary funds totaling $20,000 and distributed them to more than 100 local organizations. “We

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

So we’re careful when we lend out commercial real estate loans. Sills: We are currently an SBA 7(a) lender, and we participated in the PPP program in 2020 and 2021. Drentlaw: We signed with Teslar Software in late December 2021 and have been working with them to implement workflows and exception tracking.

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Community Bank Community Tampa North Carolina 91

Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As a point of reference, the S&P US BMI Bank Total Return Index for the five years ended December 27, 2021 was 60.4%. billion at September 30, 2021. What is unique is, after reviewing the management team and board, there are people of Korean, Malaysian, Indian, and Chinese descent in leadership positions.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Financial institutions, fintech companies, and other small business lenders will need to begin collecting a wide array of small business lending data under the Consumer Financial Protection Board’s (CFPB) proposed small business lending data collection rule. Prepare for change to data collection practices. Points of Note.

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Lending Data Regulation Community 195

Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Here, we highlight some of last year’s most successful loan producers in the areas of agriculture, commercial and consumer/mortgage lending. Using FDIC data for 2021, we calculated a lender score out of 100 for each community bank. Ag lending in the South: Relationships matter. It also indirectly benefits our lending business.

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Community Bank Community National Philadelphia 172

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2021, there were more than 120 fintech IPOs in the U.S., 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Acquisition of the Year: Bank Acquiring a Fintech. Acquisition of the Year: Fintech Acquiring a Bank.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. That’s enough to send normal people into the fetal position.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Consumer Bankers Association has sent a letter to Rohit Chopra, the incoming CFPB Director, in which it urges the CFPB to adopt a larger participant rule for fintech consumer lenders. CBA contends that non-supervised fintech lenders pose a “threat to consumers.”.

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