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. Number 1 on that list: Project Management. That's a year and a half for those counting.

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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. Despite that increase in profitability, banks need to be mindful of how they manage their branch and customer base to increase profitability further. This fact, however, is rapidly changing.

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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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Abrigo

AUGUST 28, 2022

Develop better ag lending workflows before demand picks up. Takeaway 3 Better ag lending workflows streamline document collection and management and increase credit analysis accuracy. . Efficient and profitable ag lending will be critical as ag loan demand and competition pick up. Efficient processes. Prioritizing automation.

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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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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Bankers started the year with good business plans, strong balance sheets, and optimism. Banks and credit unions had to fundamentally change their delivery, support and relationship management models at scopes and speeds that were unheard of. Even George Bailey would have given you the thumbs up. ” – Hunter Thompson.

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 2, 2021

However, it had a great group of employees and was in a market that I knew very well. In June 2021, we were up to six locations, $327.6 In 2021, we are up to over $70 million, mostly investment properties. It was so awesome I asked if I can reprint here. Below are the flurry of tweets he sent in his stream. million in loans.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. billion of assets under management. 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.

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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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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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FICO

JUNE 9, 2022

Executives responsible building and marketing compelling customer experiences in financial services and insurance – or those responsible for customer service and retention – must feel like they are stuck in a never-ending game of Whac-A-Mole. Enterprise Intelligence: 5 Steps to Ending a Whac-a-Mole Approach. Tue, 07/02/2019 - 02:45.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

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. Following some respite in 2022, community bankers are bracing for a tougher economic landscape ahead in 2023. By Beth Mattson-Teig.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 16, 2022

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. Twenty-six percent of the bank is owned by the Board, Executive Management, and the ESOP.

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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. There were a handful of female executives, but they were few and far between and most I encountered were directors, not bank management. Dinner on your own.

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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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Gonzobanker

JULY 21, 2016

In a prior life, I negotiated large scale enterprise resource management software contracts in the retail and logistics industries (SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle and so on). The key vendors in banking technology have never been known for having list or book pricing. I’ve seen it all. Now it has one but I bet few banks have ever seen it.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Endless CRM and data management projects that shook our foundations and gutted our PMOs. Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. Heavy core conversions weighing us down. FinTech threats and distractions. Payments chaos. Heavy-handed regulators.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the world of asset management, the biggest players are now dedicated firms like Vanguard. Total assets under management (AUM) at the top asset managers now dwarfs total AUM at the top banks. The disruption of asset management. As a result, banks are facing dropping IPO profits. Some banks have collapsed.

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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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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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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. Personal finance: Using chatbots to help people manage their spending. Personal finance: Using chatbots to help people manage their spending.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Securities: By tokenizing traditional securities such as stocks, bonds, and alternative assets, the blockchain is upending the structure of capital markets. 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.”.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But a few common threads do emerge, such as an inability to generate sustainable revenue, bad product-market fit, losing to competitors, and (of course) simply running out of money. 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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