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 24, 2015

During my 20-plus years of dealing with community bankers, either as an investment strategist, sales rep or business-development manager, I have come to understand that certain buzz words fall on deaf ears. As a consequence, supply-siders, like your bank’s brokers, tend to avoid using them during a sales pitch. They are 1.)

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

AvidXchange processed more than $120 billion of invoices and payments across its network of more than 500,000 suppliers in 2018, transforming the way 5,500 customers in North America pay their bills, according to its website. Nashville community bank Studio Bank was the first FI to adopt the AvidPay solution.

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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. More often, the two operate independently. First, the average duration of a community bank bond portfolio is more than four years right now. Register here.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

The Social Bankers, a collective of community bank marketers, offers inspiration, information and professional development advice to community bankers focused on marketing and social media. Membership is open to non-competing community bankers throughout the United States. Tim Martinson, North American Banking Company.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Imagine one big party of more than 1,000 larger bank acquirers, smaller bank potential sellers, salivating investment bankers, and pen-in-hand attorneys full of big grins and big plans for 2018. Sarver grew Alliance from a small $700 million community bank acquisition to a $20 billion powerhouse in less than 15 years.

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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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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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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But as the prevalence of security breaches grows, so do the opportunities for community banks to position themselves as guardians of their customers’ personal data through compliance, technology and relationship building. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert. Data privacy and security is a hot topic and is only getting hotter. Bob Hickok.

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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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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The traditional relationship lending approach for business loans – personal attention and local connections – offered by community banks and credit unions provides a competitive advantage in winning small business loans. It is the backbone of what many community financial institutions do, and they do it well. Siems, Jonathan A.

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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. billion in 2018 to $26.9 billion in 2018 to $26.9 That share rose to 62 percent in 2018, according to the Mercator Advisory Group’s “U.S. The Federal Approach.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

By the end of 2018, the RTP network reached a little more than half of U.S. But this has been the domain of larger financial institutions, especially when community banks and credit unions are included. FIs do see the benefits, according to a survey by Citizens Commercial Banking. This is shifting, though.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 4, 2020

I like this bank-acquiring-fintech deal (similar to City National Bank’s August acquisition of FilmTrack and 2018 acquisition of Exactuals). And businesses that deferred moving online or had no reason to operate online have made the leap practically overnight.”. Moven Bank announced discontinued U.S.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In 2018, companies from 31 countries and 19 categories — spanning payments, digital banking, insurance, and more — made it onto the CB Insights 2018 Fintech 250 list. Today, 22 of those companies have become unicorns, 17 have exited, and none have shuttered operations. Highlights from the fintech 250 Class of 2018.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”)—released on October 3, 2018 an Interagency Statement on Sharing Bank Secrecy Act Resources (“Statement”). Such resource sharing contemplates reducing costs and increasing efficiencies in the ways banks manage their BSA and AML obligations.

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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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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

And finally, that the banks and the card networks are the big losers. Last week, NACHA issued an ACH operations bulletin announcing the delay of the rollout of a third Same Day ACH (SDA) processing window by six months, to March 19, 2021. This new window – which will allow banks to submit requests for SDA until 4:45 p.m.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

March 2017 - Failed the OCC's community lending test causing "significant harm to customers." February 2018 - Regulators limit WF growth due to "widespread consumer abuses and compliance breakdowns." April 2018 - Agrees to $1 billion in settlements for auto loan and mortgage abuses. Thirty million in fines and restitution.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

That was part of the story told in a new PYMNTS interview with Jon Zimmermann, senior product manager, electronic products at Fiserv. Earlier in June, for instance, payment company PayFi and The Clearing House (TCH) partnered to bring real-time payment technologies to community banks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Fifty-four percent of small business owners say they are optimistic about the national economy , found Bank of America’s 2018 Business Advantage Small Business Owner Report. Nearly half (47 percent) said they chose their bank because it’s the same institution with which they bank on a personal level.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

Payment scheme providers must consider how to encourage adoption, especially if operating in countries lacking a government mandate for financial institutions (FIs) to sign on. Banking association and payments company The Clearing House (TCH) has been confronting such concerns as it advances its real-time payment ( RTP ) offering in the U.S.,

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Each employee has an ownership stake in the bank through its Employee Stock Ownership Plan. 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. And there are two Puerto Rican banks. Welcome back!

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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? Jill is continually demonstrating just how loud a $300 million community bank can roar!

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 9, 2019

Online banks already use automated processes. The ability to deliver community banking services in the manner desired by your customers. If you look at the support center expenses branches must absorb for operations, technology, compliance, etc. In 2018, when the median branch deposit size was $62.2 Oh contraire.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

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. GonzoBanker of the Year – Large Banks. This year brought us: Mergers out the yin-yang.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 8, 2017

Incidentally, Chair Janet Yellen’s term at the Fed expires in February, 2018. Recently, we have seen ransomware virtually cripple company’s networks and Internet access, as criminals exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Dorothy has been with Penn Community Bank and its predecessor since November, 2004.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Takeaway 3 Community banks have seen less volatility in noninterest income, and many are still eyeing growth across the category. Since the financial crisis, noninterest income has transitioned from an important portion of a bank’s revenue to a much smaller piece of the revenue stream. Community banks target growth.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

While the Commerce implementation is still in progress, signings of Varo Bank and PayPal followed as well as the 2018 acquisition of high-end origination provider Avoka. Any overlaps between Akcelerant in loan operations and Avoka in sales/origination appear to have been sorted out in the Infinity product line. This third U.S.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

DBS Bank — DBS Asia X (DAX). Key people: Annie Ye, Head of DAX, Senior Vice President, DBS Innovation Group; Neal Cross, Managing Director & Chief Innovation Officer. DBS leaders expect to see more than 5,000 people actively innovating DBS’ services and operations at DAX each year. Founded: 2016. Founded: 2015.

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Abrigo

JULY 23, 2021

It is a concept that we have all heard of, however, the concept remains somewhat of a mystery in the community bank world. from the treaty and re-instated comprehensive sanctions in 2018. Now that there are new requirements in this area it’s time to unravel some of the mystery. Since the U.S. Distance is not a factor.

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