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Texas community bank and community bank trade groups seek leave to intervene in lawsuit challenging CFPB small business lending rule

CFPB Monitor

Texas First Bank (Texas First), Independent Bankers Association of Texas (IBAT), and Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) (collectively, Proposed Intervenors) have filed an unopposed motion seeking leave from the court to intervene in the lawsuit challenging the CFPB’s final small business lending rule (Rule).

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Helping Community Banks Turn On The Innovation Switch

PYMNTS

Innovation has always been important for community banks, but the driving force of digitization over the last decade has greatly sped up the pace, said Kevin Tweddle, chief innovation officer for the Independent Community Bankers of America ( ICBA ). Community banking is no exception.

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Community banks balance tech, human aid

BankInovation

SAN FRANCISCO — Community banks are looking to technology to support human interactions rather than replacing them. When it comes to technology investment, community banks and credit unions “are not going to outdo JPMorgan [or] Bank of America,” Rilla Delorier, a board member at the $3.45

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Podcast: The Community Bank Cycle of Opportunity

ABA Community Banking

When Gilda Nogueira's family immigrated to the United States, East Cambridge Savings Bank in Cambridge, Massachusetts, helped them land on their feet and begin their new life in America. Today, Nogueira pays this opportunity forward through community banking as president and CEO of ECSB.

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Mnuchin: Community Banks Processed Almost All $875M+ In Relief

PYMNTS

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said community banks have helped process many of the small business Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. Mnuchin said in a tweet , “#PPPloan now over $875,000,000 processed almost all from community banks! Big banks taking applications and will submitting them shortly.”

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Giving Community Banks The Contactless Card Boost

PYMNTS

However, there may be an opportunity to get more contactless cards into the hands of consumers — an opportunity that involves community banks and is backed by financial incentives. ICBA Bancard’s 1,600 community bank customers have issued more than 7.3 ICBA Bancard’s 1,600 community bank customers have issued more than 7.3

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Countering The Aging Community Bank Customer Base

South State Correspondent

There was a time when the average community bank customer was the same age as the adult general population. Over time, due to the urbanization of America, immigration and lack of targeted marketing, this has changed.