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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? Changing Lending Environment.

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Best Community Banks to Work For 2022

Independent Banker

Community Financial Services Bank, Benton, Ky.; In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. Clockwise from top left: Grand Ridge National Bank, Wheaton, Ill.; Bank of Montana, Missoula, Mont.;

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

PYMNTS

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Necessity is the mother of invention. Mortgages ?

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Let's retake the mortgage market!

Jeff For Banks

Community financial institutions are grappling with the recent and pending mortgage rules. New rules aside, we were not that significant in the mortgage market anyway. So we opened the door, let the competition through, and we ceded the mortgage market to brokers, specialists, and the government. A note on the data.

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

PYMNTS

Financing of all sorts was on the downswing, and SMB owners began dipping into their own piggy banks before seeking a lending agreement. 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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Community banks are thriving in Texas

Independent Banker

Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. The 2020 Census quantified the growth many residents were already sensing: Austin grew by 33% between 2010 and 2020, earning it the rank of fastest-growing large metro. Some clients who have relationships with ANB have expanded their businesses into downstate markets.

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What SEC Filers Have Learned About CECL Implementation

Abrigo

Ours, who is Senior Vice President and Director of Credit Administration of Summit and its 32-location bank subsidiary, Summit Community Bank Inc., Ours said that for Summit Community, which decided to use the cohort methodology, which is a loss migration approach, the choice came down to the availability of quality data. “We