Abrigo

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Many community banks and credit unions are turning to small business loans as a source of loan growth. In their Spring 2016 Semiannual Risk Perspective , regulators have publicly acknowledged increasing risk in commercial real estate lending, so small business lending seems like it may be an alternative path.

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Lending Community Bank Community Analysis 186

Gonzobanker

MAY 31, 2019

Financial institutions that want to play in the small business lending sandbox need to bring their digital toys. article , former Small Business Administration administrator Karen Mills said community banks with strong small business customer bases that don’t find new ways to serve them digitally are going to face a “reckoning.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

One area of impact is small business finance and lending, with small businesses and lenders seeing a slowdown in demand. Small business lending platform Funding Circle commented on this effect in its latest earnings data, noting that there has been “some deterioration” in its higher-risk small business loan bands in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

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. The traditional banking model may be disrupted, or about to be disrupted, depending on where you look. Necessity is the mother of invention. Invention can become necessity.

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Abrigo

JULY 13, 2017

In September 2016, more than 240 bankers and industry experts from both community banks and credit unions attended the Risk Management Summit in Austin, Texas. Here are the 2016 Summit Takeaways. The agenda fully embraced the “Year of CECL” and covered the accounting change in detail. “The

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

There’s been a big rebound in lending to big businesses, but there’s been a very small recovery in lending to small businesses,” said Rebel Cole, Ph.D., In its report, the SBA outlines several recommendations for policymakers to encourage an expansion of small business lending among the traditional financial services industry.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In a survey of community banks and credit unions at the 2016 Sageworks Risk Management Summit, 42 percent of respondents said Commercial Real Estate, or CRE, lending was their primary focus for loan portfolio growth. For many, commercial real estate lending may be the ticket. This reflects a larger industry trend.

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Community Bank Handbook Lending Risk Management 150

Abrigo

MARCH 22, 2017

In September 2016, more than 240 bankers and industry experts from both community banks and credit unions attended the Risk Management Summit in Austin, Texas. Here are the 2016 Summit Takeaways. The agenda fully embraced the “Year of CECL” and covered the accounting change in detail. “The

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Risk Management Management Denver Conference 186

Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

New Military Lending Act regulations kick in next fall. Following a three-year study on predatory lending, the U.S. Department of Defense has now issued the final rule to implement the Military Lending Act. 3, 2016, compliance date. By Mary Thorson Wright. The effective date of the final rule was Oct. Beginning Oct.

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Lending Compliance Regulation Virginia 70

Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Observing the gap in pandemic relief in south Florida due to a lack of local community banks, a trio of banking veterans teamed up to form a digital-first community bank—and were granted a charter in record time to support local businesses. Name: Locality Bank. Keith Costello, Locality Bank. “We

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Derek Williams, president and CEO of Century Bank & Trust in Milledgeville, Ga., wanted to be a financier before finding his way to community banking. He has also served on ICBA’s executive committee for many years, including a term as treasurer from 2016 to 2018. That love of community has defined his career.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The CARES Act extended the CECL implementation deadline for many larger community banks until the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Community bankers tell us that while the extension is welcome, they’re already down the road to implementation. ICBA tells FASB CECL isn’t feasible for community banks. February 2016.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

Financing of all sorts was on the downswing, and SMB owners began dipping into their own piggy banks before seeking a lending agreement. That finding comes care of data gathered by 12 regional Federal Reserve banks in a survey conducted over the third and fourth quarter of 2017.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

As in past years, community bankers will continue to contend with a dynamic, highly competitive lending environment in 2016. Several trends have arisen that are likely to continue shaping the commercial lending market. Here are five commercial lending trends from some of the industry’s top commercial lenders.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

What does small business (SMB) lending look like? seems to be kicking off, showing evidence of surpassing traditional bank lending at many times. In Mexico, small business lending is muted across the board. In Mexico, small business lending is muted across the board. For example, alternative finance in the U.K.

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American Banker

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Mission Asset Fund has helped people build their credit by formalizing the informality of lending circles. Quiñonez, one of its 2016 Fellows. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently named Mission's CEO José A.

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Lending Community Bank Community Technology 50

Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We asked both leaders and staffers to tell us what makes their community banks stand out as employers. Key Community Bank: Leading by example. Key Community Bank. At the heart of Key Community Bank’s work culture is connection. Greg Dennis, Key Community Bank. “We

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Fines against companies were up 2 percent between 2016 to 2017 and over that same period were up 23 percent against individuals. Banking, Eyed by the Fed. community banks and small business lending. community banks and small business lending. As has been reported, the U.S.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Just about every community bank makes commercial real estate loans. A whopping 95 percent of ICBA members are active commercial real estate (CRE) lenders, according to the latest ICBA Community Bank Lending Survey. Responsible lending. Regulators warn once again about rising CRE concentrations and risks.

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Community Bank Lending Community Regulation 70

Abrigo

AUGUST 3, 2017

The FDIC paper The Entry, Performance, and Risk Profile of De Novo Banks published in April 2016 reports that the number of de novo bank failures and acquisitions annually has drastically declined since 2010, primarily due to the fact that new bank formations have become nearly inexistent.

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Oklahoma City FDIC Handbook Oklahoma 150

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Earlier this month, the Federal Reserve released new data that found the average merger review time for deals in the banking sector declined to 3.8 The average merger review time at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) declined between 2016 and 2018, too, reports in The Wall Street Journal said.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 28, 2016

Anticipating safety and soundness exam issues in 2016. As in past years, community bankers will have a dynamic regulatory environment to contend with in 2016. Safety and soundness concerns will remain a prominent driver of that supervisory dynamic for community banks. What should community banks anticipate here?

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Community Bank Community Regulation Lending 70

Independent Banker

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency published its supervisory priority objectives for midsize and community banks for 2016. But the potential risks and repercussions of banks’ introduction of new products and services are recurring chords throughout. By Tim Cook. Governance and oversight. Cyberthreats.

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Community Bank Compliance Community Lending 70

Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In 2021, the bank expensed over $530 thousand to the ESOP to benefit employees. Twenty-six percent of the bank is owned by the Board, Executive Management, and the ESOP. Since 2016, over 50% of total deposits are non-interest bearing, driving superior cost of funds and net interest margin. billion of total assets, $36.7

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CFPB Monitor

MARCH 30, 2020

Section 4011 – Temporary Lending Limit Waiver. Section 4012 – Temporary Relief For Community Banks. Pursuant to the EGRRCPA, Bank regulators had announced the Community Bank Leverage Ratio at 9% of Total Assets.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. This is an extension of business services, powered by a local community bank. A mobile wallet powered by a local bank, built on the Malauzai platform. This certainly adds a lot of technological capacity to the community bank.

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NCR

DECEMBER 1, 2017

For smaller community banks and credit unions in the US, it might seem like a difficult time to do business, with so much change, intensifying competition and regulatory compliance to contend with. “Most small business owners prefer to be a strong customer at a smaller bank,” Krista Morgan, chief executive of P2Bi, said.

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Community Community Bank Michigan Lending 56

Independent Banker

JULY 28, 2016

For more than 30 years my community bank has offered college scholarships to local high school students. Through this process we at Centinel Bank of Taos have the opportunity to learn about their dreams and goals for the future. Our future is bright because community bankers recognize the importance of investing in our people.

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Community Bank Community Denver Leadership 70

Abrigo

MAY 5, 2017

Instead, applicants have more gripes about the process they encountered at financial institutions than about the financial aspects of their transactions, according to the 2016 Small Business Credit Survey by the Federal Reserve. How are you going to know if the institution even lends to your industry unless it says it does?

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Independent Banker

JULY 29, 2016

These in-depth and timely professional development programs are designed exclusively for community bankers and led by nationally recognized industry experts who know the issues community banks grapple with. Each certification course is designed to prepare bank professionals to handle essential tasks and responsibilities.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The similarities between the mortgage crisis and subprime auto lending in 2016 are all too obvious, with constrained cash flows, defaults and investor losses all likely.

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Lending Community Bank Community Strategy 28

CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2016

The CFPB has announced the appointment of new members to its Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, Credit Union Advisory Council, and Academic Research Council. In January 2016, the CFPB published a notice in the Federal Register soliciting applications from individuals interested in becoming members.

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San Antonio Kansas City Groups CA 60

Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Coping just fine, community banks in energy-producing regions manage the oil-price plunge. Yet community bankers serving the oil industry say they’ve been expecting a drop in the notoriously cyclical price of crude. Pat Hickman, chairman and CEO of Happy State Bank, a $2.6 It’s nothing that banks here can’t handle.”.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 2, 2014

• Leverage ratio – Includes off-balance sheet exposures and will serve as a “backstop to the risk-based capital requirement,” but could lead to reduced lending. • Liquidity Coverage Ratio – Will require banks to have “sufficient high-quality liquid assets to withstand a 30-day stressed funding scenario.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

The FI said this statistic is two percentage points higher than last year’s report, and a whopping 25 percentage points up from 2016 levels. More than half of small firms also say their local economies are going to improve this year (56 percent), up from 50 percent in the spring of last year, and just 38 percent in 2016.

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Taxes America National Community 144

CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 19, 2016

The CFPB has published notices in the Federal Register announcing that it is seeking applications from persons interested in becoming members of its Academic Research Council (ARC), Consumer Advisory Board (Board), Community Bank Advisory Council (CBAC), or Credit Union Advisory Council (CUAC).

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Far more than any other issue, regulatory compliance is the biggest challenge community bankers experienced in 2015, with 43 percent naming it as such in ICBA’s State of the Community Banking Industry survey. First Security, a $180 million-asset community bank in New Salem, N.D., Making adjustments.

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North Dakota Community Bank Community Compliance 70