Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 2, 2021

In June 2021, we were up to six locations, $327.6 In 2021, we are up to over $70 million, mostly investment properties. He exemplifies the best of next generation bank leadership, with eyes wide open to the next iteration of banking in our rapidly changing environment. It was so awesome I asked if I can reprint here. million in loans.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is a $350 billion segment of a $2 trillion federal stimulus package signed into law under the CARES Act earlier this month. On April 3, the federal government launched a heretofore unprecedented program to funnel money to U.S. small businesses hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Bankers started the year with good business plans, strong balance sheets, and optimism. Even George Bailey would have given you the thumbs up. “I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.” ” – Hunter Thompson. Well, HST and Big Bird had it right. Everything.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

On September 17, 2021 in the Scottsdale, Arizona desert, I delivered a speech to a ballroom full of bankers titled: 5 Things I Wish We Did Better. It was well received and was recently picked up by a banking school as an elective class. PPP urgency must be our norm. Number 1 on that list: Project Management.

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FluentBanking

APRIL 18, 2020

Banking diploma is a very common and recognized professional certification from The Institute of Bankers, Bangladesh (IBB). Though there are so many contradictions about this course, every banker wants to pass this certification. Today we are going to provide you a better insight into IBB, Bangladesh, and their banking diploma course.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Under CECL, Dyer said recently at the 2015 Risk Management Summit presented by Sageworks, “We’re required to make forecasts of the future – that’s the big hang-up.” He also reassured bankers that the process may not be as complicated as they fear. This question is a major one for U.S. Dyer said. There’s some math,” he said.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 29, 2015

So, I picked up the phone, called the branch and left a message. Alas, the banker assigned to us was running late. The only info the banker asked them for was their birth date. I think it’s a little more tangible and easier to teach them about debits and credits using the book. It was all downhill from there.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Customers love digital self-service—right up until they don’t, and then they want a live person. In our work with banks and credit unions around the country, an unavoidable truth comes up again and again: Even the flashiest digital strategy falls flat without the backing of a strong contact center. Phone menus dead-end.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 24, 2023

This article gives bankers a background on what it is, its risks, and how it will change everything from your infrastructure to your hiring practices. In addition, you can limit the tasks so that it only books using Open Table or Delta Airlines (using your login) or by giving it a list of brands to choose from.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 16, 2022

I call this "pulling into the pits" in my book: Squared Away-How Can Bankers Succeed as Economic First Responders. And I am weary of the persistent "get big or get out" mentality of many industry pundits. If their platitudes about scale are correct, then the largest FIs should logically demonstrate better shareholder returns, right?

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

The Garb: Despite the exhortations in the conference guide that attendees should be in resort casual, it never ceases to amaze me that bankers still take themselves so seriously. Bankers, it’s time to think about a bit more diversity, with the board room being a good place to start. Spoiler Alert: All the attendees are in on the game.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 7, 2024

While it is tempting to sign the contract for Copilot at a starting cost of $30 per person and distribute the technology bank wide, bank management should understand the greater context of the strategy and investment. This tight integration allows bankers to boost productivity, be more accurathave more creativity.

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Gonzobanker

JULY 21, 2016

The key vendors in banking technology have never been known for having list or book pricing. In fact, up until the late ’90s one of the largest vendors didn’t have a list price. In fact, up until the late ’90s one of the largest vendors didn’t have a list price. I’ve seen it all.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company. Endless CRM and data management projects that shook our foundations and gutted our PMOs. Well, you can cross the last one off your list, because THE AWARDS ARE HERE.

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FICO

JUNE 9, 2022

It is a kiosk game with a waist-high playing surface with five holes, where plastic “moles” reside; these moles randomly pop up out of their holes, but quickly drop back down into them. But, as in Whac-A-Mole, it seems like every time you nail one problem in the digital transformation journey, another pops up. Tue, 07/02/2019 - 02:45.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Following some respite in 2022, community bankers are bracing for a tougher economic landscape ahead in 2023. Illustration by Jack Hudson. We recently spoke with community bank CEOs from across the country to gain insights on how they’re proactively positioning to manage risks and take advantage of growth opportunities in the coming year.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 31, 2023

The concept that we allow the customer to choose how they want to bank often enables the bank to be passive in its position and give up agency. Branching, for example, is too expensive to be all things to all people. That said, branch profitability has come roaring back, given the value of deposits. This fact, however, is rapidly changing.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

On the eve of Yahoo’s acquisition of social networking platform Tumblr, then Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote a Tumblr post promising “not to screw it up.” Below, we look at some the worst mergers and acquisitions undertaken by large corporations, and how the good times went bad. The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. Microsoft and Nokia.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 28, 2022

Develop better ag lending workflows before demand picks up. Efficient and profitable ag lending will be critical as ag loan demand and competition pick up. Forty-one percent use a tablet computer like an iPad that has mobile access to the Internet, up from 19% when the question was first asked in 2014. Efficient processes.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

Samantha and Nick would boot up “Jack” every couple of days. And he wrote a brilliant book a few years ago on the history of financial crises – “ This Time Is Different.” The storyline, of course, seems a bit at odds with the title of the show (which not surprisingly lasted only one season) but it stayed with me.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

There is an understanding that technology and fintech are going to cause radical change, but the how, how big and when are still very unclear. Brutal competition is an everyday affair, as are product and price commoditization. They have a very simple answer to all of these headwinds: Bring. But that’s for next year. First, find a comfy chair.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

After the collapse of Lehman and Bear Stearns and the global financial crisis that ensued, the business models of the world’s biggest investment banks needed to change. In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2014

I learn a lot from bankers and industry experts as I visit their offices, speak to them on the phone or at industry events. And very difficult for bankers to put on their books. Occasionally they will offer an insight that I think my Twitter followers would find interesting. I quote people anonymously to protect the innocent.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

All of you with your hands up… … uh huh. It would have required a few trips to the local dispensary to dream up what bankers have endured this year. 1 issue raised by CEOs in our surveys, bankers had to craft a new and compelling post-Covid value proposition to attract it. OK, show of hands. Pull ’em down. Nobody did.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet. THE BANKER AWARDS The Bank Acquisition of the Year – goes to the unique PacWest and Banc of California deal. Employees are back to work. We are in awe.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In this report, we round up the industries where the real “chatbot revolution” is taking place — and highlight the most important lessons for companies hoping to leverage the technology. That year, Facebook made the Messenger bot platform the centerpiece of its F8 developer conference. There are many reasons why chat didn’t take off in 2016.

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Abrigo

APRIL 23, 2020

During a webinar hosted by Abrigo, Walter Lara-Figueroa, a Lender Relations Specialist from the North Carolina District Office of the SBA, said lenders should plan to book loans very soon after President Donald Trump signs the bill approving new funding. To sign up for lender notifications from the SBA, use this link.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

While everyone is gearing up for the Oscars, some of us may be in La La Land blithely ignoring smoke coming from the auto industry. Turns out numbers are popping up in other places that corroborates the bigger picture. Mobile is the wave of the future in payments, and the wave shows no sign of cresting. From Ring comes ca-ching.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Long-time Free-Space Optics (FSO) player AOptix has shut up shop and is selling off its assets at auction next week… the company is currently trying to shop around its intellectual property. For those who’ve been reading, we’ve had failure on the brain recently. Some of the fail-related research we’ve issued includes: The Downround Tracker.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Last September, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took a stab at Bitcoin: “It’s worse than tulip bulbs. It won’t end well. Someone is going to get killed.”. Lloyd Blankfein, head of Goldman Sachs echoed that thought, saying, “Something that moves 20% [overnight] does not feel like a currency. It is a vehicle to perpetrate fraud.”.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You are just minding your own business being a start-up, thinking “how many more months of capital do I have until we are bankrupt.” The overall transaction process is fairly straightforward, and can be benchmarked to the book-building and underwriting that an investment banker does. Tis the season. First, you’d like to be rich.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You are just minding your own business being a start-up, thinking “how many more months of capital do I have until we are bankrupt.” The overall transaction process is fairly straightforward, and can be benchmarked to the book-building and underwriting that an investment banker does. Tis the season. First, you’d like to be rich.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

Unemployment filings have had their second wrong type of record-breaking week in a row — with a staggering 6.6 million for the week that ended March 28. The consensus estimate for what the filings were going to be pre-release? million claims. The numbers, taken from surveys of 200 small and medium-sized business (SMB) owners, are sobering.

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The Emmerich Group

MARCH 11, 2013

Thousands of bank executives are waking up saying, “SALES training! How many thousands of banks have spent a half million or more on the pipe dream of sales training, only to wake up in the same shape or even worse than before? It all adds up to a confidence issue. What are the telltale signs that you have a confidence issue?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Among the CDIA’s arguments were that the rule would inflict extensive material damage to their core business, and could open them up to unending class actions suits. Consumers who have just been breached will certainly bristle at signing away their rights to join a class and file suit. According to L.A.

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