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Using digital lending helps to reach small businesses

Independent Banker

Digital lending capabilities are quickly becoming table stakes, particularly when it comes to small business lending. It’s critical for community banks to have online loan applications, process automation staff skilled in digitization and more. Benefits of digital lending. Ensure a more consistent lending process.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

Here, we highlight some of last year’s most successful loan producers in the areas of agriculture, commercial and consumer/mortgage lending. The score combines the average of the bank’s percentile rank for lending concentration and for loan growth over the past year in each lending category. By Ed Avis. Methodology. AGRICULTURE.

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Oportun Personal Loans Review: For Borrowers With No Credit

MyBankTracker

APRs are lower than predatory lending options. While the loans are very expensive, they offer a middle ground between traditional loans and potentially predatory payday lending. You can receive the money in the following ways: mailed check prepaid debit card direct deposit to your bank account Reporting the Loan to Credit Bureaus.

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2021’s Best Community Banks to Work For

Independent Banker

Within that tightly knit group, there’s the bank’s leadership team, comprising president and CEO Greg Dennis, chief lending officer Jon Girard, vice president of operations and compliance Kristine Hendrickson, and executive vice president and chief financial officer Michele Boeder. William Atkinson is a writer in Illinois.

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Best Personal Loans in Minnesota in 2020

MyBankTracker

Can Online Lenders Be a Good Alternative? While working with a local lender is often a good choice, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of online lenders that may be better alternatives. Many banks offer loans through their websites and there are a number of dedicated online lenders that are worth considering. Lending limits.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

Community banks will continue to have representation in the mobile payments field through the Visa and MasterCard networks, and ICBA Bancard, ICBA’s electronic payments services program for community banks, is working closely with the card networks on the launch of Apply Pay as well as on other digital developments. Fees follow.

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Major Medium of Exchange

Independent Banker

Debit and credit cards, direct deposits, paper checks, online and mobile bill payments and other technologies have changed the role of cash in our economy. The majority of our elderly customers still use all cash and checks, not debit cards. Ed Avis is a freelance writer in Illinois. By Ed Avis.