Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Ken Finley, president of Johnson City Bank, in downtown Johnson City with Shannon Sultemeier, executive vice president (left); and Brenda Haynes, vice president/cashier (right). Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. These include family-owned businesses, community businesses and operating companies.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2018

Wells Fargo, weeks after it was hit with a rare enforcement action from the Federal Reserve, is overhauling its risk management processes and announced internally that four top risk management executives would be retiring. All are retiring in April, May or June.

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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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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. First, the average duration of a community bank bond portfolio is more than four years right now. In fact, the tone is about to improve. Education on Tap.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

One word can summarize this action-packed banking year, GonzoBankers – tiring. Endless CRM and data management projects that shook our foundations and gutted our PMOs. THE BANKING AWARDS. Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. Payments chaos.

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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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South State Correspondent

MARCH 19, 2023

While every bank will take some level of credit, interest rate, liquidity, and operational risk, the question is this: Are banks in the business of taking risk to earn higher revenue, or are banks managing relationships and should avoid risk (and the higher return) when possible?

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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. By Stephanie Vozza.

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ABA Community Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Industrywide, and among community banks, fourth-quarter tax moves affect annual performance Bank Performance Management Financial Trends Community Banking.

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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. According to the companies, speed is a crucial benefit of such a tool.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

This year’s winners: Left: Central Valley Community Bank, People’s Choice Award; Middle: Kennebec Savings Bank, Exceptional Community Bank Service Award; Right: Cross River Bank, Emerging Service Program Award. Exceptional Community Bank Service Award. Kennebec Savings Bank.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 6, 2022

While most banks hold community cocktail parties, lunch receptions, and host chamber of commerce events, one of the most underutilized events is for banks to attend statewide industry-specific functions. These are primarily annual trade association events for the profitable industries that your bank targets.

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Abrigo

MARCH 6, 2017

The ABA has a new report out on how banks are using social media, and much of the report focuses on using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the like to boost customer service, make connections in the community and recruit staff. 13) @BAI_Info – BAI (Bank Administration Institute) provides research, training and industry news.

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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. They make the engine run,” said Mike Butler, CEO of community FI Radius Bank.

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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. 5) that it is integrating AvidPay into its BankTEL product suite, which is designed for financial institutions (FIs) to manage accounting and expenses.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 4, 2024

Although shadow banking mostly serves larger corporations, think money market funds buying commercial paper, bankers fear the trend will continue going downstream to more traditional community bank customers. EDP students think this could have a significant impact on their banks.

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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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ABA Community Banking

JANUARY 12, 2017

In Q4 '16 earnings season, Street anticipates brighter outlooks from banks Bank Performance Management Community Banking.

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Gonzobanker

APRIL 10, 2017

Strategic planning conversations for 2017 and 2018 are focusing more intently on funding/deposit gathering and fee income. And, increasingly, mid-size and community banks are looking to take on the Big 5 banks in corporate banking, particularly in offering cash management services. They find niches.

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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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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. Each employee has an ownership stake in the bank through its Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

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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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ABA Community Banking

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Key considerations for your 2017 budget Bank Performance Management Community Banking Risk Management Rate Risk.

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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. Community banks and credit unions also offered their backing.

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ABA Community Banking

AUGUST 17, 2017

Unusual deals, still rare, tick up in 2017 Management CSuite Community Banking M&A.

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Independent Banker

JULY 29, 2016

The demand for professional development opportunities for community bankers has never been greater. Last year Community Banker University’s eight certification programs provided more than 4,000 community bankers with highly tailored training.

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ABA Community Banking

JANUARY 6, 2017

On the bank M&A front, watch for more MOEs in 2017 Management CSuite Community Banking M&A.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

is set to see its first new community bank in decades, as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) lent its approval for MOXY Bank to launch in Washington, D.C. MOXY Bank, for example, aims to introduce corporate treasury management services, as well as offerings for small business (SMB) owners.

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 14, 2022

This was an obvious attempt to bully banks into making it so risky to do business with disfavored industries that many banks, under fear of enhanced regulatory scrutiny, stopped doing business with them. OPC formally ended in 2017. But the bad taste lingered. Because we are going after "climate related businesses."

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Banks and credit unions had to fundamentally change their delivery, support and relationship management models at scopes and speeds that were unheard of. And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Bad things about the banking industry. Everything. Bravo Brett and team!

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2017

18) suggests that small businesses (SMBs) are likely to reduce borrowing activity in the second half of 2017. The latest data from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management, along with Dun & Bradstreet, found that small businesses surveyed expected slower annual revenue growth for the second half of the year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Bank branch closures have some analysts, and even the banks themselves, on high alert. bank branches in 2017, and some are concerned that, as the trend continues, small business (SMB) owners will not have access to the in-person services that a customer relationship manager (CRM) can provide. Researchers found a 2.2

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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. Old Second Bancorp, Inc.

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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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American Banker

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Regulators have warned about the dangers of high commercial real estate concentrations despite bankers' assertions that they are managing risk better than they did before the financial crisis. Still, CRE concerns could influence M&A and loan diversification in 2017.

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Independent Banker

JULY 28, 2016

Establishing a comprehensive Compliance Management System. The demands of managing regulatory compliance are uncontested, and depending on the disposition of the participants inside and outside of the bank, compliance management exists with varying degrees of problems and adversity. By Mary Thorson Wright.

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