South State Correspondent

APRIL 15, 2024

We feel that as community bankers, we can learn from Jamie Dimon (Chairman and CEO of JPM) and from Warren Buffet’s annual shareholder letters. As usual, it was full of insight that every community banker should consider. Our focus is on information that pertains to the community banking industry.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 14, 2022

Community banks have solid competitive advantages when competing against insurance companies (primarily life insurance companies or “Lifecos”) and commercial real estate securitization conduit lenders (CMBS) for commercial borrowers. How Banks Can Compete Against Insurance Companies and CMBS. Solution Parameter. Differentiation.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Southern Bancorp partners with other community banks to increase loan accessibility and financial literacy to low-income customers. As CEO of Southern Bancorp, Darrin Williams wants to promote relationships between community banks and CDFIs to create more prosperous communities. Better serving its communities.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 5, 2022

In response to a request from three Democratic House members, the GAO recently issued a report on its review of fair lending oversight conducted by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. In three of the five examinations, examiners did not find the banks’ responses disputing their findings to be satisfactory.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

One Community Bank’s 30-year relationship with All-Color Powder Coating is carried on by banker Steven Erickson (left) and Dan Anderson. Whether achieved by internal or external resources, community banks provide valuable support for small businesses. To achieve this, community banks use a number of strategies.

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ForwardBanker

JANUARY 30, 2019

Just a few short years ago, banking experts encouraged community banks to tie variable rate loans to LIBOR. They said the switch would help smaller banks compete with big banks, while reducing their basis risk, operational overhead, and more. The post Should you be doing something with reference rates?

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Abrigo

MARCH 6, 2017

The ABA has a new report out on how banks are using social media, and much of the report focuses on using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the like to boost customer service, make connections in the community and recruit staff. His recent research reports have covered SMB lending, alternative lenders and automating commercial lending.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 4, 2024

And, according to some EDP students that are lenders, are turning to the shadow banking market that do not have deposit demands. Such as direct lending funds, and insurance companies. Shadow Banking refers to banking-like operations that take place outside of the mainstream banking industry.

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Abrigo

MAY 21, 2020

Key Takeaways The PPP forgiveness process is a major concern among community financial institutions, and many worry about having the resources to handle it. The PPP forgiveness process is a major concern among community financial institutions. Lending & Credit Risk. SBA Lending. Lending & Credit Risk.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 28, 2023

It’s what one of my Fintech Hustle podcast guests (serial fintech entrepreneur Tom Shen ) referred to as “meat and potatoes” fintech. Deep expertise in sound business lending has value , which showed up in the market both directly helping community banks and through partnerships.

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Abrigo

MAY 11, 2020

Key Takeaways The coronavirus has propelled FIs and customers to embrace digital offerings Work from home schedules, sheltering in place, and urgent financial needs have changed customers' expectations of bank response times. Hershberger referred to PPP loans as a “bonding experience” between the borrower and the lender. SBA Lending.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

“For Ron, giving back to the community is part of the essence of who he is. With vigor and a strong commitment to service, Ron Paul leads a rapidly growing community bank in Maryland. Ronald Paul first encountered community banking as a real estate developer in the early 1980s. Laurence Bensinger, EagleBank.

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Abrigo

APRIL 18, 2020

“We were able to provide funding for 95% of those customers that completed the application process and were approved internally,” said Andy Hunter, President of SaviBank in Burlington, Washington, another customer of Abrigo’s Sageworks SBA Lending solution. “We A lot of banks are sitting on a lot of applications right now.” Dan Berger.

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ABA Community Banking

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Heated competition for bank funding is an increasingly important focus for community bank leaders, according to an annual survey released today by the Federal Reserve, the FDIC and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Perry's perspective is clearly focused on shareholder value and may be viewed as shareholder primacy, a sometimes derogatory term because pursuing shareholder value could be done at the expense of other stakeholders, such as employees, customers, and communities. billion bank from Moline, IL, and CF Bancshares, Inc. CFBK) a $2.1

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Independent Banker

MAY 31, 2022

Ted Whitehurst, Providence Bank president and CEO, led the charge to open a new brick-and-mortar location of the Raleigh, N.C., community bank during the pandemic. Providence Bank chose to open a new brick-and-mortar site during the pandemic, when many other businesses were ceasing operations or shutting down altogether.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Technological innovation has enabled FinTech start-ups to compete in a field previously dominated by banks and credit unions. At the same time, early adopters of new technologies, like mega banks, are edging out community banks and credit unions in the fight for customers and creating a rapidly consolidating industry.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

That overture, he said, will allow the combined firm to compete against the largest banks. During questioning by lawmakers, and in reference to scale, Rep. Community banks and credit unions are likely to go out of business, he said, “and they do not have the money to launch these mobile banking platforms.”

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Gonzobanker

MAY 8, 2015

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, said it best in his recent letter to shareholders with his reference to emerging digital lenders. The annual LendIt conference was held last month at Times Square in New York City and GonzoLender descended boldly on the scene to evaluate the mysterious underbelly of digital lending. THE PLAYERS.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The first bank to crack the Top 5 over $50 billion did so in 2020. As a reference, the best SIFI bank in five-year total return this year was JPMorgan Chase at 82nd overall. My method was to search for the best banks based on total return to shareholders over the past five years. Triumph Bancorp, Inc. Nasdaq: TBK) #4.

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Abrigo

JUNE 5, 2023

In addition, even before the recent banking troubles, regulators have emphasized the financial institution’s responsibility to provide leaders with information on key areas of planning, operations, and risk management. the Community Bank Leverage Ratio (CBLR) and the minimum Tier 1 leverage ratio).

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

That then limits how many PPP loans any bank can process for their SMB customers who are interested in the program. For Speight and Planters First Bancorp, they’ve hit capacity already and are now referring SMBs to others. Bankers want to lend this money out; small businesses desperately need it. Edwards said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

Also in Australia, and apropos to small business lending, Prospa delayed issuing additional shares on the country’s stock exchange, in part due to pressure from financial services regulators in that country. community banks hailed some changes to the Dodd-Frank regulations, particularly in regard to how small to medium banks are treated.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This is not the first brush Facebook has had with regulators on the continent in reference to data privacy. The United States Federal Reserve, through Loretta Mester, president of the Cleveland Federal Reserve, has said that there should be an overhaul of regulations on small business banking that would in turn give a lift to U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In reference to loans, there was a $611 million provision in credit costs in the period, compared with $10.5 The bank’s roughly $34 billion in reserves is testament to the fact that it is prepared for something “worse than the base case” for its economic outlook (which assumes low single-digit percentage declines in GDP into 2021).

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Waters and the subcommittee chairs to understand and examine developments in the Fintech industry, “including marketplace lending for consumers and small businesses, partnerships with traditional financial institutions, cryptocurrency, blockchain, alternative data utilized in credit underwriting, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.”.

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Jack Henry

JULY 29, 2022

As someone who reads this blog and follows the industry, you’ve likely heard a lot of talk about open banking recently. Headlines with references to “Open APIs” and “Shared Data” continue to appear in inboxes and popular topics with industry reports. Consumers clearly want freedom, flexibility, and choice.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

The main concern, according to Waters, is to balance the needs to protect investors and consumers, as well as the community banks that she believes are at risk as a result of their entry into the market.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2018

Those that are retiring include Jim Richards, head of financial crimes risk management, Kevin Oden, head of operational risk and compliance, Keb Byers, enterprise risk head and Vic Albrecht, community banking risk group head. However, the FI can still lend and take deposits. All are retiring in April, May or June.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These days, community banks and credit unions are mostly clear about where their IT dollars went over the past few years and where their institutions will spend their technology dollars in 2021 to achieve their priorities. Money: It’s a Hit.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2017

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency accused Wells Fargo of an “extensive and pervasive pattern” of discriminatory and illegal lending practices for years. Notably, most of the cases referred to by the OCC had already been announced and, in some cases, were over a decade old. Maxine Waters, U.S.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

As a group, community banks spend substantial funds hiring outside consultants to help with various management functions, and a substantial share of dollars are spent to help oversee their risk management and compliance activities. Community banks often already have the expertise handy in-house, they say.

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Abrigo

APRIL 7, 2022

At recent Abrigo CECL Kickstart webinars, consultants demonstrated CECL implementation practices with an emphasis on the needs of community banks and credit unions. What if our lending footprint is very small and not affected by macroeconomic factors such as unemployment? Reasonable, defensible, data-based CECL models.

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Jack Henry

AUGUST 21, 2019

As someone who reads this blog and follows the industry, you’ve likely heard a lot of talk about open banking recently. Headlines with references to “Open APIs” and “Shared Data” continue to appear in inboxes and popular topics with industry reports. Consumers clearly want freedom, flexibility, and choice.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

IB: What’s your favorite thing about being a community banker? Gilfeather: The bank started as a trust company 122 years ago, and we’re often still referred to as the “trust company” rather than OCTC. We have a very significant network of attorneys and accountants who refer trust candidates to us.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 7, 2019

As a point of reference, the SNL US Bank & Thrift index total five year return was 65%. It is the Mountlake Terrace, Washington holding company for 1st Security Bank, a $1.7 billion in assets community bank with 22 branches that encircle the Seattle Sound. It is the $888 million holding company for Plumas Bank.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The first bank to crack the Top 5 over $50 billion did so this year. As a reference, the best SIFI bank in five year total return was JPMorgan at 33rd overall. My method was to search for the best banks based on total return to shareholders over the past five years. This bank lends to startups without positive cash flow.

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