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A community bank-fueled payments rail

Independent Banker

A secure, open-loop, cost-saving, customer-accessible, multiplatform P2P payments network might sound too good to be true, but community bank consortium Alloy Labs Alliance hopes to achieve just that with the CHUCK payment rail. Julieann Thurlow, CEO of $730 million-asset Reading Cooperative Bank in Reading, Mass.,

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How to Set Your Strategic Planning Time Horizon

South State Correspondent

Banks consistently produce under their cost of capital. For example, at present, return on equity performance is about 12% for the average community bank. However, for the average bank, their cost of capital is between 9% and 14% depending on the bank’s equity liquidity with an average of 12.5%.

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Marketing Emphasis Drives Loan & Deposit Growth for Community Banks: Study

The Financial Brand

This article Marketing Emphasis Drives Loan & Deposit Growth for Community Banks: Study appeared first on The Financial Brand. As deposit pressure mounts industrywide, a study of banks with under $2 billion of assets makes a case that bigger marketing budgets can help.

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Bank Brand Value: Calculated!

Jeff For Banks

I ask and ask and ask: what does brand get you? Forbes calculated brand value in their " World's Most Valuable Brands " by taking anything that a company achieves over an 8% return on equity. What if the company is more capital intensive, and has to carry more capital than other companies? i.e. brand.

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5 Actionable Insights From 2Q 2022 Bank Earnings

South State Correspondent

Insights Based on 2Q Bank Earnings. Insight #1 – Deposit & Margin Management: Deposit runoff has started and will make it to community banks by October. For 2Q, larger community banks lost about 0.3% of their deposits, and small banks were either flat or continued to gain.

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How To Improve Uninsured Deposit Performance

South State Correspondent

As you set marketing plans and budgets, consider that just this simple act of outreach and branding increases the average life by about 2-4 months. This is one of the great mysteries of community banking. Almost every community bank touts its commitment to the relationship.

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What Makes an Effective Community Banking Board?

Jeff For Banks

This might be explained by the capital formation process, where a low performing bank gets equity injections and those folks go on the board. And it doesn't matter if they are in Ag Supply or are the brand manager for the Dallas Cowboys. In terms of bankers, active or retired, this group looks no different than the Top 5.