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Market your community bank with first-party data

Independent Banker

Community banks own an enviable amount of data, but not all are leveraging it to its fullest extent. By Mindy Charski People share important data about themselves with their community bank in myriad ways. Data about existing customers can even help community banks improve their efforts to find new customers.

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FinCEN AML/CTF Priorities Part 8: Drug Trafficking Organizations

Abrigo

Danielle Austin-Rios , CAMS also contributed to this article From drug cartels to street gangs, the illegal drug market has been a consistent moneymaker for drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), and there is no end or slowdown in sight. Start with Part 1: Implications for Community Financial Institutions. BSA Rules and Regulation.

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Lime Raises $310M For Micromobility Expansion

PYMNTS

The company also plans to focus on safety issues , and pledged to work with regulators around the world on the issue. It’s only through new and existing partnerships with local governments that we are helping communities to elevate micromobility in public policy development,” the company said. Louis Scooter Safety Task Force.

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Texas Court Rules Against CFPB’s Payday Lending Act Delay

PYMNTS

The restrictions are scheduled to take effect next year, but lenders — along with the CFPB — sued to have that deadline delayed while the agency takes a closer look at the regulations. In fact, earlier this year CFPB’s acting director Mick Mulvaney revealed that the agency was going to “reconsider” rules regarding payday loans.

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Upcoming Celent discussion at the American Banker Retail Banking conference

Celent Banking

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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Can Data Give Small Banks An Edge Over The Big Boys?

PYMNTS

For community banks, there’s power in numbers. According to the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), a trade group that advocates on behalf of about 6,000 community banks of various sizes in the U.S., But community banks still face tough competition from larger financial institutions. trillion in assets.

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Thoughts from American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015

Celent Banking

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. The conference was full of community bankers discussing evolving business models and the pressures its placing on their ability to gather deposits. How do community banks grow deposits in a climate of shrinking deposit share?