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How Community Financial Institutions Can Regain the Small Business Lending Market

Abrigo

In today’s banking world, community banks are focused sharply on shareholders’ expectations for growth in earnings and return on equity. So, how can community banks support earnings and ROE growth in the face of intense regulatory scrutiny and competitive pressures on profitability? Streamline With Software.

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Data privacy: How to keep customer data safe

Independent Banker

But as the prevalence of security breaches grows, so do the opportunities for community banks to position themselves as guardians of their customers’ personal data through compliance, technology and relationship building. Data privacy and security is a hot topic and is only getting hotter. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert.

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The Many Answers To ‘What Is A Bank?’

PYMNTS

Austere institutions that seemed impervious to change are reinventing themselves fast, as empowered consumers demand terms and services that banks would have found laughable in 2010. Examining sentiments around banks, PYMNTS polled nearly 1,300 U.S. percent characterize banks as institutions that store money securely, while 34.9

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Will "Plain Vanilla" Kill Community Banking?

Jeff For Banks

I was at a strategic planning retreat a few weeks back where a colleague lauded the concept of bankers getting back to plain vanilla community banking. In 2010, Mac-related sales represented a paltry 20% of total sales. But what about Bank of New York Mellon. Below is their segment reporting from 2001 and 2010.

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

PYMNTS

Much has been said about the wealth effect of those who held and hold stock market securities, and much has been written about income disparity. At the peak of the crisis, the delinquency rate was 10 percent in 2010, as underwater mortgages and foreclosures hit the headlines. The median household income in the U.S.

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SMB Underwriting Slowed As Demand Fell Off At The End Of 2017

PYMNTS

For 40 percent, the challenges came from paying operational expenses, while 30 percent said securing credit was a pressing issue. The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act loosened some of the regulations on small financial institutions, including community banks whose customers included many small businesses.

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

Jeff For Banks

The Bank has 61 branch locations throughout the Carolinas. In 2015, the Company was recognized as American Banker's #1 bank for three-year ROE. This is clearly a turnaround situation, as the bank lost over $12 million in 2010, over 20% of its capital (ouch). The Bank operates five full service offices. Pretty good.

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