South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

In addition, they may consider focusing on these five critical areas: Improve Operating Leverage. To improve the quality of their earnings, banks need their number one focus to be on making their operations more efficient. To the extent projects improve operating leverage and the total experience, so much the better.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2018

The toolkit provides owners, operators and developers of multifamily buildings with resources for long-term tenants who want to rent out their space. Now RealtyShares will provide the building’s owners and operators with financing to buy, refinance, and renovate their properties.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. We are in awe. Seriously in awe.

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American Banker

JANUARY 9, 2020

Alaska USA Federal Credit Union will nearly double its operations in Phoenix after it buys the locations.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 4, 2016

There is strength in numbers, and there’s absolutely no reason for community bankers to try to compete against players a hundred times bigger on their own. For the most part, these channels are flooding executives with high-level “what” observations and doing nothing to help them make strategic “how” decisions or adopt new operating tactics.

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Independent Banker

JULY 29, 2016

The demand for professional development opportunities for community bankers has never been greater. Last year Community Banker University’s eight certification programs provided more than 4,000 community bankers with highly tailored training.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. All of this while knocking out a stellar 1.35% ROA and leading industry, community, and philanthropic efforts everywhere. The New Name for Community Award. merges with Lakeland Bancorp.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

The Other Bets unit also reported an operating loss of $732 million, a 16 percent increase from the second quarter of 2017. Though most testing takes place in California, those operations also are conducted in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Michigan and Washington State. Stock Compensation Growth. Investor Impatience?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

Entrepreneurs value the in-person advisory relationships they get when they visit bank representatives in person, some industry experts say, and more branch locations will bolster their local communities’ small business landscape. A report from JLL published earlier this year found the number of branches in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

Even so recent news does show that the brand — now owned by a France-based operation after Atari all but faded out after the late 1970s and early 1980s video game craze and the massive industry crash that followed — is making a play to take part in the emerging trend of making hotels more attractive to gaming-minded consumers.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But what if you’re a $500 million community bank that wants to operate core in-house? than for its core products – namely Phoenix in Cornerstone’s market. So, what’s stopping Phoenix from duking it out with Symitar and DNA in the CU world and Premier and IBS with banks? Almost no one has ever heard of it.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Mark Turner, Executive Chairman of the Board, WSFS Bank – We have to give the nod to an early 2019 retirement of Turner, who had one hell of a run in 12 years at the helm of a great community and wealth bank. It was always clear how much Jones loves his credit union, his team and his community. Credit Union Lifetime Achievement Awards.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Industry-specific tech talent is consolidating and migrating to programmer and megabank community hotspots in San Jose, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta and Phoenix. Attracting and keeping technology talent at a regionally based financial institution is a constant struggle.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The startup operates an online gaming platform across Greater Southeast Asia (GSEA) that focuses on game curation, localization, user community building, and eSports activities. Sea also operates a separate e-commerce platform, as well as a digital financial services platform.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Nothing seems to put a bounce in a banker’s step more than a tax break and regulatory relief, and this bountiful energy was radiating at Bank Director’s annual “mecca” for bank M&A in Phoenix last week – Acquire or be Acquired. For those in the know – simply AOBA. Source: Federal Reserve.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Vodafone is the third-largest mobile operator in the U.K. “You want to get into as many use cases as possible,” said Greg Weed, director of card performance research at Phoenix Marketing International. Operator East Japan Railway Company alone served 17.4 And The Brits Are Already Well On Their Way.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs. The luxury brand operates under the umbrella of the Volkswagen Group, so developments within the division could have broader implications going forward.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sidewalk Labs (a subsidiary of Alphabet), for example, is working on creating a community that “combines the best in urban design with the latest in digital technology,” as part of a larger initiative in the city of Toronto.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Today, more than a century later, that credit union is still operational and is now focused on serving a new type of member: millennials. a Phoenix, Arizona-based CU is providing a financial lifeline to aspiring business leaders in that community. Beyond recent developments in Washington, D.C.,

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