Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 28, 2023

I work for The Kafafian Group, a community bank consulting firm based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Many of my readers might not know what my firm does, so I want to dedicate this post to the problems we help community bankers solve. We feed customer profitability systems. If product profitability, we follow their product list.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 1, 2016

The quote, “You can't manage what you can't measure,” attributed to both American statistician W. Edwards Deming and Austrian management consultant Peter Drucker, has seen significant play as data management has increasingly become more important to professionals in all industries.

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FICO

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The annual exercise of staring into our crystal balls and making predictions for the coming year has begun. In our current rising rate environment, any bank that can’t grow (or at least sustain) its deposits base will face shrinking net interest margins and a competitive disadvantage in their consumer lending businesses.

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Filene

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

After monitoring the ongoing conversation around the CFPB proposed regulations on Payday lending and other types of high cost installment loans, Filene takes a unanimous stance on the issue: Educate yourself on the proposed regulations, form an opinion, and submit a comment! The need for small dollar lending is huge. What To Do.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Regulatory communities and auditors want to see that CECL and stress testing remain as consistent as possible across the organization. Additionally, it is important to remember that CECL is an accounting exercise while stress testing is a regulatory or institution risk management process. Portfolio Risk & CECL. Learn More.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The joint complaint filed by the CFPB and DOJ in federal district court in New Jersey states that the action resulted from a joint investigation by the agencies of the bank’s lending practices following the CFPB’s referral of the bank to the DOJ pursuant to the ECOA.

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FICO

AUGUST 19, 2022

Fighting back against the FinTech disruption isn’t an exercise in total war – it’s about carefully picking one’s battles. While this is a good start, banks cannot lose sight of the value that intentionally used overdraft protection (or similar short-term lending products) can have for customers with cash flow imbalances.

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FICO

JULY 29, 2020

In poker, a game can change significantly with the fourth community card laid out by the dealer. Is this the event that will turn the way we interact, learn, play, communicate, run our businesses, and our lives in general? As an exercise, I thought I would explore some of these changes to daily life with my daughter.

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BankUnderground

MARCH 1, 2021

It was no secret that the new government wanted to exercise more influence over the banking sector. The danger the Bank foresaw was that depositors would lose confidence in banks if they thought they were being forced to hold assets they didn’t want or to funnel lending to favoured industries. Figure 1: Lord Catto.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

For humans, the key to a longer life involves a healthy diet, exercise and a commitment to healthy living. BECU and other credit unions have also had to address the emergence of new FinTech companies, firms which are disrupting financial services by offering consumers innovative new options for managing their money.

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 27, 2011

Past experience of Board members and/or Management; 2. Entitlement structure… making management positions and reporting lines to promote key managers; and 4. Regulatory requirements… maintaining certain Board and management committees, processes, and policies. Legacy structure… the way it has always been; 3.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Fallout from recent global events presents an obstacle to generating revenue for community banks. Since COVID-19, profitability planning for community banks has mainly hinged on how the government was coping with the pandemic and the key role financial institutions played in keeping the economy afloat. By Elizabeth Judd.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 12, 2021

The Taskforce identified the following three “overarching principles” as animating its drafting of the report: Consumer protection policy should be particularly attentive to the consequences for inclusion and access by previously underserved communities. Bureau reorganization. enforcement, rulemaking and supervision). Fintech regulation.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Decentralized Finance, Blockchain, and CBDCs Why Peer-to-Peer models fail against oligopoly, with Lending Club shutting down p2p platform, Seedrs/Crowdcube merging, and Morgan Stanley buying Eaton Vance for $7B. the Lending Clubs) end up becoming banks and seeking the thing it looked like they would disrupt. They all (i.e.,

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Decentralized Finance, Blockchain, and CBDCs Why Peer-to-Peer models fail against oligopoly, with Lending Club shutting down p2p platform, Seedrs/Crowdcube merging, and Morgan Stanley buying Eaton Vance for $7B. the Lending Clubs) end up becoming banks and seeking the thing it looked like they would disrupt. They all (i.e.,

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Exercise enthusiasts must thus avoid gyms and fitness clubs, causing income shortages for fitness firms that traditionally rely on membership subscriptions, training revenues and retail sales during customer visits. The club can still provide education, training, community, inspiration [and] motivation.”.

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Abrigo

MARCH 17, 2022

However, community financial institutions can incorporate the new scenarios for their own stress tests to help determine how their capital levels will fare in severe economic situations. Prudent stress testing as a risk management tool helps the enterprise see where the potential pitfalls are in their plans. Relevant Loss Rates.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 8, 2020

So far, bankers have taken comfort in the soundbite that “this crisis is different” because of the strong capital levels and risk management rigor that has developed since the Great Recession. Practice the art of surgical lending. For instance, Wells and Chase just shut down all home equity lending. costs can be reduced.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

IB: Who should use LinkedIn at your community bank and why? There is no reason to discount the positive effect employees can have in the Internet market, provided they exercise the appropriate regulatory and internal protocol standards. Gemmill: The way I look at it, every employee is a bank ambassador.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

There is a lot of soul searching happening in the executive suites and boardrooms of community financial institutions (FIs). I recently spoke at a Financial Managers Society meeting packed with FI CFOs and controllers and asked the crowd what they thought "evaluate strategic alternatives" meant. In unison, they responded "sell".

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Three years later, for many, it is now rightly recognised as perhaps the most important pillar of our health and wellness, alongside exercise and diet. Twenty months of my absence have allowed the “professional” top managers to kill the company using the money of rich oligarchs. Majority shareholders abandoned it.

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