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Community Bank Outlook: Challenges and Opportunities in 2021 and Beyond

Abrigo

How can community financial institutions thrive in 2021? Community banks provide unique and important banking services for their customers, but they also face significant obstacles. Takeaway 1 Community banks play an important role in the economy and their communities, but they face significant obstacles.

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Top concerns and growth strategies of community banks: Part I

Abrigo

This article is the first in a two-part series on top concerns and growth strategies of community banks. Regulatory compliance. These are all phrases that resonate with community bankers. Data from Bank Director’s 2014 Growth Strategy Survey in August confirms that these are bankers’ greatest concerns.

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Charles Potts: Back-office innovation

Independent Banker

Operations play a role across multiple facets of community banking, including account onboarding, payments and transactions, fraud analysis, compliance and regulatory guidelines. On a practical level, what steps can community banks take to strengthen their back-office operations? Minimizing friction.

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New York Department of Financial Services settles enforcement action with community bank over auto dealer fair lending allegations

CFPB Monitor

Following up on a threat it made back in 2018 , the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced on October 6, 2022 that it entered into a consent order with Rhinebeck Bank (“Rhinebeck”) to settle discrimination claims involving discretionary dealer markups on retail installment contracts with minority borrowers.

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Community bank and credit union trade groups raise concerns about CFPB’s payday lending proposal

CFPB Monitor

ICBA and CUNA state that the proposal “if finalized in its current form, would unquestionably disrupt lending by credit unions and community banks.” ” ICBA and CUNA indicate that the proposal’s exceptions need to be broader for community banks and credit unions to remain in the small dollar loan market. .”

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Big commercial real estate downturn could sink 300+ banks: Report

American Banker

Economic analysis from the real estate advisory CBRE finds that community banks are particularly imperiled by their exposure to commercial real estate loans. Others see looming risks in indirect lending.

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Analysis for Success

Independent Banker

Two steps to help manage for Bank Secrecy Act compliance. Time and again, banks struggle with complying with the data-intensive requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act. How can a bank get this area of compliance right? Compliance Corner General Highlighting Regulation & Compliance'