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Community Banks Embrace Faster Payments’ Competitive Edge

PYMNTS

Community banks are pushing for a stronger role with their small business (SMB) customers. However, through an embrace of FinTech collaboration and industry consolidation, community banks appear poised to further dispel assumptions of a lack of digitization. has dropped from 8,000 in 2004 to about 5,400 in 2018.

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What #Banking Trend Will Have the Greatest Impact on Your Bank?

Jeff For Banks

And then what happened in 2004-06 happened again. Depositors woke up and thought "what is my bank paying me?" 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.

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Why Banks Merge: Listen to the Sellers

Jeff For Banks

September 2004, driving from a meeting in New York, on the grossly miss-titled Cross Bronx Expressway, Nathan Stovall, a reporter from SNL Financial gave me a call. The question: What was up with an upstate New York bank? of Ocala, Florida on the bank''s sale to Heritage Financial Group, Inc. He printed it as I said it.

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Springboard to Excellence

Independent Banker

imberly Anderson, senior vice president and chief administrative officer of Cañon National Bank in southern Colorado, became her community bank’s loan compliance officer in 2003. In early 2004, examiners visited her $253 million-asset bank, an experience that revealed a need—someone with a stronger compliance background. “I

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2019 Edition

Jeff For Banks

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. Their vision is simple: "Build a great place to work and bank." It is the $888 million holding company for Plumas Bank. First Capital, Inc.

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How Crowdfunding Aims To Fill SMBs’ Community Banking Gaps

PYMNTS

Community banks are often the familiar faces of the financial services world, and when small businesses seek capital, their neighborhood financial institution can be a promising place to start. While they continue to play an important role in small business financing, the community banking market is drastically shrinking in the U.S.