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5 Big reasons to go digital with SMB & commercial lending

Abrigo

Automating SMB and commercial lending elevates your customer's experience From making it easier to apply to speeding up loan closings, automation can helps make business lending customers and staff happier. APIs and digital doc prep ease the workload on your SMB and commercial lending staff, too. . Digital lending.

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Community banks are thriving in Texas

Independent Banker

Ken Finley, president of Johnson City Bank, in downtown Johnson City with Shannon Sultemeier, executive vice president (left); and Brenda Haynes, vice president/cashier (right). Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. These include family-owned businesses, community businesses and operating companies.

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Small Business Lending Is Crucial in Fighting the Deposit Wars

Gonzobanker

For bankers to be successful in the small business lending market, they need to execute on several key tenets: strategy, people, process and technology. Community banks need to analyze the demographics and varied business segments to identify the growth potential of each market. No two markets are created equal.

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Formula for Business Lending Success: Minimize Delays

Abrigo

Key Takeaways Financial institutions who want to maintain a healthy share of business lending this year and through potentially tougher economic times ahead want to be in the best position possible before trouble hits. Abrigo's Business Lending Readiness Survey found many processes stymie those efforts. learn more.

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The Concentric Relationship Strategy in Banking

South State Correspondent

We concluded that the market does not adequately compensate banks for credit and interest rate risks. Top-performing community banks deploy relationship banking. We define relationship banking as a model focused on a consultative banking approach. uses at our bank.

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The Risk of Interest Rate Movement in Relationship Banking

South State Correspondent

Empirical evidence, historical bank failures, and common sense teach us that many risks do not translate to higher yields. The second article compared and contrasted community banks’ pay-for-risk and relationship business models. Top-performing community banks deploy relationship banking.

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Fintech Buys Bank. Keeps Stratospheric Valuation.

Jeff For Banks

book value and 51x EBITDA, buying a bank. For 1.85x book. Especially for a community bank. Because that was what LendingClub paid for Radius Bank. It was one of my most read posts and is a chapter in my upcoming book, Squared Away (soon to be available in your favorite bookstore). million in 2020.

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