South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

Moving all customers to digital statements, restructuring compliance reviews and employee onboarding are just some of the more popular efforts that banks are undertaking in 2023. Lending Focus – Interest Rate Sensitivity and Credit Accuracy. Many banks, for example, are still hyper-competitive in multifamily lending.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 6, 2015

Next week I will be moderating a panel discussion at American Banker´s Retail Banking Conference in Austin about the competitive pressures of community institutions. It’s an important topic that Celent discussed in a report published last year: And Then There Were None: The Disappearance of Community Banks.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

With the record growth of San Antonio, Houston and Austin, southern Texas is becoming a hub for business. Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. Samsung plans to build a $17 billion chip plant in town about 30 miles away from its existing facility in Austin. Photo by Dennis Burnett. By Mindy Charski.

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William Mills

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Customer experience, automation, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), ease of use, flexibility – all of these were part of the discussions at this year’s SourceMedia’s Small Business Banking Conference in Austin, Texas. Think Quicken Loans® on steroids but for small business lending. www.miradortech.com. www.rcgiltner.com.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company. Oh, by the way, that Fintech darling of two years ago Lending Club?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

A Texas court ruled on Tuesday (June 12) against delaying the compliance date for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ’s rule on payday loans. The consumer bureau, under the direction of Mick Mulvaney, should never have made this transparent attempt to destroy an important consumer protection around payday lending.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Four Finovate alums were among the bunch: CBANC Network took in $4 million for it’s community bank information network. BankersLab received an undisclosed investment towards its commercial lending training & compliance tools. Real estate lending marketplace. Community financial institution research network.

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