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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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The banks serving active duty personnel

Independent Banker

Under Larry Wilson’s leadership, First Arkansas Bank and Trust’s branch on the Little Rock Air Force Base was named the 2020 Air Force Bank of the Year. Community banks operate on a majority of the country’s military installations. Community banks comprise more than two-thirds of the 66 banks operating on U.S.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

To you, manage your interest rate risk. percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. Although community banks did not lend to sub-prime borrowers in any meaningful way, did we participate?

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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?" Although shadow banking mostly serves larger corporations, think money market funds buying commercial paper, bankers fear the trend will continue going downstream to more traditional community bank customers.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets & Economic Update 4Q23 by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Jaworski 10/28/23 Dorothy Jaworski has worked at large and small banks for over 30 years; much of that time has been spent in investment portfolio management, risk management, and financial analysis. Dorothy has been with Penn Community Bank and its predecessor since November, 2004.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update - First Quarter 2024

Jeff For Banks

DLJ 03/15/24 Dorothy Jaworski has worked at large and small banks for over 30 years; much of that time has been spent in investment portfolio management, risk management, and financial analysis. Dorothy recently retired from Penn Community Bank where she worked since 2004.

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Washington Watch

Independent Banker

The good news is the law compels the federal banking agencies to review regulations they have issued to identify those that are outdated, unnecessary or unduly burdensome. The bad news is the first review, conducted from 2004 to 2006, was a bust. Community Bankers Chosen as CFPB Advisors. in Lowell, Mass.; in Lowell, Mass.;