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Small banks: Big challenges and big opportunities

Abrigo

Relationship focus helps CFIs Small banks can leapfrog competitors and better serve their communities by combining their unique advantages with smart management and partnerships. How can community financial institution leaders manage their challenges and seize their opportunities at the same time?

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Federal Reserve To Launch FedNow Instant Payments System 

PYMNTS

The move was described by Kansas Federal Reserve President Esther George as the biggest infrastructure upgrade embraced by the Federal Reserve since the ACH system went online in 1972. The Federal Reserve has officially announced it will create a real-time payments service, to be called FedNow. banks.

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Agricultural Alert!

Independent Banker

However, the farm community already is being forced to defend even this scaled-back safety net. million farms and the community banks that lend to them each growing season, Scanlan points out. Community banks also are likely to see increased regulatory scrutiny of agricultural loans this year. Ongoing concerns. Mitchell, Ky.

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Congress Presses Fed On Real-Time Payments Plan

PYMNTS

Despite some previous pushback, the Fed, represented by Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President and Chief Executive Officer Esther L. would not operate a single, unified real-time payments service; rather, FedNow would operate in conjunction with other services in the private sector, including The Clearing House’s RTP network.

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Why The Fed Will Create Its Own Real-Time Payments System

Tech and Finance

It also has a regulator that takes a far more active role in promoting consumer interests vs. banks than the Fed does. If the Federal Reserve banks don’t develop and take an operational role in faster payments then their competency will further deteriorate. The UK implemented a faster payments system 10 years ago.

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