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Small banks: Big challenges and big opportunities

Abrigo

Relationship focus helps CFIs Small banks can leapfrog competitors and better serve their communities by combining their unique advantages with smart management and partnerships. How can community financial institution leaders manage their challenges and seize their opportunities at the same time?

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. How Banks Can Leverage: Niche markets abound in banking, and community banks are in the perfect position to create a following on a national level should they desire.

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The Beginning Of The End For Bitcoin?

PYMNTS

Diehards, however, are still crying “ hodl ” — the cryptocurrency community’s rallying cry, inspired by an enthusiastic misspelling of “hold” in a 2013 Reddit thread. What goes up must come down, as they say, and many are predicting that bitcoin’s time has come (or at least they’re hoping that’s the case).

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

Jeff For Banks

But once they turned things around they took their deferred tax asset back onto their books and did three acquisition. is the parent company of Willamette Valley Bank, a community bank headquartered in Salem, Oregon. Founded in 1980, Plumas Bank is a full-service community bank headquartered in Quincy in Northeastern California.

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Wading Through the Waters

Independent Banker

In June, five federal agencies (including FDIC, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve) announced approval of a final rule that modifies regulations applying to loans secured by properties located in special flood hazard areas. There is an exception that will be key for many community banks to understand.

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Lending Club, Amex, Airbnb And PayPal: Why Payments Never Bores

PYMNTS

Chargeoffs — loans that a lender has written off as noncollectable — are up 38 percent since 2013 for Lending Club — a curious outcome, since consumer credit on the whole during that time period was on the uptick and chargebacks declined for those loans, according to Federal Reserve data. PayPal’s Latest SMB Play.

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Four Ideas on Bank Retail Investment Sales

Jeff For Banks

My firm measures line of business and product profitability for dozens of community financial institutions, and hardly any of them make real money in retail investment sales, if they make any money at all. The most profitable program that we measure, on a pre-tax profit as percent of revenue basis, is one that is totally outsourced.

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