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Now is a prime time for digital account opening

Independent Banker

How Americans bank has been changing for years, including how they start their banking relationships. Offering the ability to open an account online can be one way to reach customers who are unable to join your community bank in person. billion-asset IncredibleBank in Wausau, Wis.

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Banking-As-A-Service Takes On The Underbanked SMB

PYMNTS

’s latest numbers on the topic revealing the lowest level of underbanked individuals since the survey began in 2009. At the same time, bank branch closures appear to be accelerating, with small towns across the country losing a combined 14 percent of their banks between 2012 and 2017. .

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Consumers Still Drawn To The Branches Banks Are Trying To Shut Down

PYMNTS

Which is a bit of a problem, since there are objectively fewer banks now than there were even five years ago. According to the FDIC, banking branches are at their lowest level in a decade with only 93,283 left open. Physical banks reportedly hit their peak in 2009 and have declined 6 percent since then.

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Dem Bones, Dem Tech Bones

Independent Banker

estimates there will be 26 billion physical devices connected together by 2020, a nearly 30-fold increase from 900 million in 2009. It could provide valuable information about a community bank’s funding, revenues, profits, risks and opportunities in all sorts of new ways. The technology research think tank Gartner Inc.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2018 Edition

Jeff For Banks

is the parent company of Willamette Valley Bank, a community bank headquartered in Salem, Oregon. The Bank operates five full service offices. It also operates 13 Home Loan Centers in Oregon and Idaho. The bank operates twelve branches, eleven in California and one in Nevada. And to them I say.

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Good News from Gen Next

Independent Banker

And the great news, according to “American Millennials and Banking,” a major new study commissioned by ICBA, is that Bauhs and the 80 million other people in his generational cohort are prime potential customers for community banks. This is really the moment for community banks to show that they’re a fit for millennials.

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LendKey And Unlocking A Generation Of Borrowers For Small Banks And Credit Unions

PYMNTS

When you are talking about smaller [community] banks, regional banks and credit unions, there just aren’t the in-house resources to build their own digital lending solutions for products such as private student loans, student refinancing and home improvement loans.”. There are currently 13,000 community banks in the U.S.,

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