Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

Fortunately, community banks have greater access than ever before to advanced solutions and technologies to meet those needs. economy, accounting for 99% of companies with paid employees and 65% of net job creation from 2000 to 2017, according to the Small Business Administration (SBA). By Charles Potts, ICBA.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

One word can summarize this action-packed banking year, GonzoBankers – tiring. Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. THE BANKING AWARDS.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

Executive committee members tell us what advocacy issues they’ll be focused on during their terms, while board members share their words of wisdom for up-and-coming community bankers: themselves. To sum it up, these leaders are all in and all heart for community banking. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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Community Bank Community Industry Texas 239

South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2022

In our previous article ( HERE ), we reviewed the banking industry’s cost of funding earning assets (COF), and we compared how community banks’ COF behaves relative to national banks in a rising interest rate cycle. The Fed will surpass the total of the entire 2017-2019 balance sheet tightening by early 2023.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 19, 2023

Further, some bankers are taught early in their careers that they are in the business of taking risks, and banks would not earn profits without it. In this article, we’ll consider the risk-return tradeoff for bank credit risk, and in a future article, we will compare different community bank business models.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

million households were underbanked in 2017. At the same time, bank branch closures appear to be accelerating, with small towns across the country losing a combined 14 percent of their banks between 2012 and 2017. Regional Banks, Credit Unions Compete. The bad news, however, is that it still means 8.4

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Community Bank Community Innovation Regional 188

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This developing world of payments and the fierce competition offered by non-traditional providers of financial services presents big challenges to smaller and community banks – those financial institutions (FIs) with less than $10 billion in assets. Those operations manage and own 50 percent of [U.S. Deposit Trends.

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Community Bank Community Operations Leadership 116

NCR

APRIL 6, 2017

Given the number of regulations they are required to follow when it comes to areas such as data protection – and the high consequences that security breaches can lead to – in past years, many banks may have felt that moving operations to cloud tools would have constituted too high a risk. But things are changing.

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Tools Technology Operations Community Bank 75

PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

percent only taking one month in 2017. Community banks (45.6 percent or commercial banks at 32.4 Community banks (45.6 percent or commercial banks at 32.4 This makes sense, since commercial banks would appear to have larger budgets than community banks, and more revenue at the ready for investments.

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Fintech Innovation Community Bank Study 193

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

AvidXchange previously raised $300 million in 2017 at a $1.4 Investment bank Financial Technology Partners is advising AvidXchange on this fundraising round, according to sources. Nashville community bank Studio Bank was the first FI to adopt the AvidPay solution. 9), citing sources.

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North Carolina Nashville Charlotte Boston 130

Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

What this has to do with community bank investment management may not be readily apparent. Belly of the curve matters to community banks. More often, the two operate independently. First, the average duration of a community bank bond portfolio is more than four years right now. Education on Tap.

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Community Bank Community Memphis Security 91

Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Academy Bank COO Tom Kientz notes that the community bank was eager to expand its deposit and loan services. Looking for an avenue to increase its deposit base, Academy Bank tapped into a market it hadn’t explored before: homeowners associations. One of the very quick things we turned to were HOAs,” he says.

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Kansas City Kansas FDIC Community Bank 91

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

SMBs using the WePay platform can now see funds deposited into their Chase bank accounts the same day without extra fees, a feature resulting from JPMorgan ’s acquisition of WePay in late-2017. Community Banks Go Real Time.

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Payments Community Bank Community Survey 109

Celent Banking

JUNE 22, 2017

In a May 2017 survey of Celent’s Branch Transformation Research Panel, we found that a significant majority of smaller institutions (those with assets less than $10 billion) are planning to increase the number of operational branches over the next two years – just the opposite among larger banks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

The survey was conducted in November and December of 2017 and included 22 financial institutions (FIs) that represent 78 percent of the ACH Network origination volume. million in 2017, with the payments adding up to $87.1 In a 2017 interview, Mike Herd, senior vice president at NACHA, noted 43 percent of 125 U.S.-based

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Survey Community Bank Fraud Community 108

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. By Stephanie Vozza.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

For community banks, there’s power in numbers. According to the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), a trade group that advocates on behalf of about 6,000 community banks of various sizes in the U.S., But community banks still face tough competition from larger financial institutions.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

William Mills Agency will be live blogging at FinovateFall 2017. Digital banking solutions for community banks and credit unions. I checked out their web site and they are promoting their IOS/Google Play mobile apps (no surprise) and I found this: This website is operated and maintained by Collective Returns, Inc.

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Samsung Mobile User Experience Google 69

Jeff For Banks

APRIL 4, 2024

And, according to some EDP students that are lenders, are turning to the shadow banking market that do not have deposit demands. Shadow Banking refers to banking-like operations that take place outside of the mainstream banking industry. and 53% indirect costs: operations, IT, human resources, etc.

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Banking Trends Trends Millennials Oregon 113

Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Nasdaq: OSBC) Old Second is a single-bank holding company headquartered in Aurora, Illinois. billion of assets and operates twenty five branches in the western suburbs of Chicago. The Bank, Old Second National Bank, lost a whopping $156 million in 2009 and 2010. Summit also operates an insurance subsidiary.

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Minnesota West Virginia Virginia Iowa 60

Abrigo

JUNE 14, 2017

Donald Musso, president at FinPro, and Martin Henderek, senior financial analyst, suggest an easy-to-follow tech plan in their article Navigating the Fintech Landscape , published in the May 2017 issue of BankNews. By automating business loan operations with Sageworks, banks and credit unions make good loans faster and optimize risk.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

Separate data from Biz2Credit from its Small Business Lending Index found earlier this year that, for several months in a row, large banks have increased their loan approval rates for small businesses — meanwhile, small banks and alternative lenders’ approval rates dipped. The 2017 report from FIS surveyed nearly 500 SMEs in the U.S.

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Survey Community Bank Community Regional 112

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Ultimately, that effort was pushed back by a coalition of unions, consumer groups, community banking groups and legislators that did not trust Walmart’s business plan or intentions once they had the license and FDIC deposit insurance in hand. That lending operation has been fairly successful for Square, and has lent out over $1.8

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Industry Fintech FDIC Community Bank 108

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Twenty-five of them were operational worldwide in 2017, and that number had swelled to 40 by September 2018, with 16 more expected to debut by 2020. The Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Task Force established a goal in July 2017 that any consumer or business with a U.S. billion in 2018 to $26.9 billion by 2023 — a CAGR of 30.9

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2018

Solopreneur, independent contractor, freelancer, gig worker – regardless of the name, micro-business owners can largely agree that, when it comes to traditional banking, they’re often left out in the cold. ” The community bank-FinTech collaborative strategy will be instrumental in that journey, noted Butler.

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Community Bank Community Fintech Survey 101

Gonzobanker

MAY 31, 2019

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.” billion to small businesses in 2018, up nearly 36% over 2017 and double that of 2016. Source: DeBanked ).

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

back in 2017, they haven’t yet hit ubiquity. But this has been the domain of larger financial institutions, especially when community banks and credit unions are included. Last month, payment company PayFi and The Clearing House (TCH) partnered to bring real-time payment technologies to community banks.

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Payments Survey Community Bank Fraud 167

Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As a point of reference, the SNL US Bank & Thrift index total five year return was 45%. Before we begin and for comparison purposes, here are last year's top five , as measured in December 2017: #1. Independent Bank Corporation (Nasdaq: IBCP) #3. The Bank operates five full service offices. Nasdaq: OSBC) #2.

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Oregon Ohio California Community Bank 101

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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Minneapolis Community Bank Community San Antonio 70

Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 16, 2022

I also filtered for anomalies such as recent merger announcements as a seller, turnaround situations (losses suffered from 2017 forward), mutual-to-stock conversions, stock dividends/splits without price adjustments, and penny stocks. Prior to starting CCBX and for the year ended 2017, the Company had $806 million in total assets and $5.4

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Community Community Bank 78

PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2018

Those that are retiring include Jim Richards, head of financial crimes risk management, Kevin Oden, head of operational risk and compliance, Keb Byers, enterprise risk head and Vic Albrecht, community banking risk group head. All are retiring in April, May or June.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Potential bank use cases of generative AI, aside from the questions above: Research on certain industries to help determine credit risk, such as "How did the hotel industry perform in the 2008 recession?"; Vendor management due diligence, such as "Where can I find third-party reviews on the nCino loan operating system?";

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2018

FinTech : “From 2010 to the third quarter of 2017, more than 3,330 new technology-based firms serving the financial services industry have been founded, 40 percent of which are focused on banking and capital markets,” read the report, issued under Treasury Secretary’s Steven Mnuchin’s name. FinTech Growth.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

March 2017 - Failed the OCC's community lending test causing "significant harm to customers." Wells maintained its market share from June 2017 to June 2018 in both New Jersey and nationwide. Notice the bigger banks all held serve and maintained leading market share. Some of whom were deployed overseas.

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New Jersey Compliance Community Meeting 60

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Other increases in 2017 occurred by using a loan to pay down existing debt or to refinance, as well as to upgrade infrastructure. small businesses, instead, first turn to national or community banks, credit unions or online lenders, the research showed in U.S. In the U.S., News reports last week.

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Lending Survey Data National 115

Abrigo

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

With just weeks left to complete CECL implementation, how are banks and credit unions doing? How has CECL implementation impacted their operations and reserves for credit losses? CECL's impact on operations. For community banks specifically, they’re already reserving for a lifetime of credit losses,” he said.

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Survey Software Resources Meeting 195

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

It didn’t name Apple or Apple Pay specifically, but it impacts all digital payment operators. recorded its fourth bank failure this year — the first collapse of financial institutions since 2017, per Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) data. 1 when City National Bank of New Jersey closed its three branches.

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