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FinTech Plaid Teams With Banking Platform Jack Henry

PYMNTS

Our partnership with Jack Henry helps us bring Plaid Exchange to hundreds of regional and community banks, and helps ensure millions of people can access digital finance apps and services no matter where they choose to bank, invest and manage their money,” Karvounis added.

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Which loan types are fueling bank growth?

Abrigo

Community banks (under $10 billion in assets) and regional banks (between $10 and $50 billion) represent 21 percent and nine percent, respectively. Regional banks had the most diversified portfolios, but community banks generally had higher concentrations in CRE and agriculture loans.

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Banks Keep SMB Lending Gains Rolling

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Regional and community banks also saw their small business loan approval rates increase, with small banks approving 49.8 According to Biz2Credit, this is the highest approval rate for small banks since November 2014. percent approval rating in March of 2012, Biz2Credit noted.

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Training Employees to Soar at Community Bank in Mississippi

American Banker

Roughly once a quarter senior executives at Community Bank in Brandon, Miss., The trips are part of a management training course known as the Falcon Program that took flight in 2012. take a select group of up-and-coming managers on a three-day retreat.

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Stress testing revisited to avert risk and improve risk ratings

Abrigo

Avert Risk The OCC’s October 2012 Supervisory Guidance notes that financial institutions that perform stress testing “have the ability to minimize the impact of negative market developments more effectively” than those that do not have a stress testing process in place.

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Fed Looks To Small Banks To Bail Out SMBs

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The Federal Reserve is looking toward a time-worn source to help with bailing out many smaller businesses and individuals as they enlist smaller regional and local banks for the job. One such bank is New Jersey-based OceansFirst, with its 118-year-old history and assets numbering $10.2 billion in the small town of Toms River.

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Flagstar's Profit Improves on Drop in Value of Legal Settlement Liability

American Banker

Flagstar Bancorp's quarterly profit increased after a decline in the value of a 2012 legal settlement liability tied to its mortgage lending practices.

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