2017 Lending National Regional 
Independent Banker
AUGUST 31, 2021
ICBA’s National Community Bank Service Award winners for 2021 demonstrate that when their local areas need support, community banks are there with innovative, compassionate and thoughtful responses. The KSB Lends a Hand program took anniversary funds totaling $20,000 and distributed them to more than 100 local organizations. “We
PYMNTS
MARCH 19, 2019
percent from the end of 2017 and hitting its lowest level since 2016. However, while regulators are happy to see shadow lending fade, the sector’s main borrowers — private companies — are feeling the strain. Private firms rely on shadow lending, since state-owned banks favor lending to government-controlled companies.
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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 28, 2020
In Mercado’s home nation of Brazil, he describes the last eight months as a “fundamental transformation” in a conversation with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster. I mean, throughout the Latin American region that has happened, but it has been massive in Brazil. Brazil at the beginning of last year was a different Brazil, for sure,” he said. “We
Independent Banker
JANUARY 31, 2022
This region has the kind of energy that draws people to a place and helps them and their businesses thrive. That year, installations further south, in the region that includes Brownsville and Corpus Christi, supported an estimated 41,000 jobs and contributed about $4.6 Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment.
PYMNTS
JUNE 18, 2018
Biz2Credit’s latest Small Business Lending Index found that loan approval rates at alternative lenders stagnated – and at credit unions, they actually fell. Thirty-four years have passed since SMB optimism was this high , according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). But the story doesn’t end there.
PYMNTS
JULY 16, 2019
Regional banking firm KeyCorp disclosed a massive instance of fraud on Tuesday (July 16) that could potentially cost $90 million, according to a report by CNBC. Shares fell on the news. In a K-8 filing, KeyCorp, which is based in Cleveland, said the fraud involved a “business customer” and that it was discovered “on or about” July 9.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 9, 2018
With big banks pulling back from small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending in the wake of the global financial crisis, the market was ripe for someone else to fill the credit gap. Community banks approved 49 percent of SMB loan applications in November, according to the latest data from the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index.
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