South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example. With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

My method was to search for the best banks based on total return to shareholders over the past five years. capital appreciation and dividends. Year to date through September 30th, Open Bank had $4.5 The lion''s share of their growth, profitability, and capital have come since their re-branding to Open Bank in 2010.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 27, 2015

The Credit Union National Association (CUNA), the credit union equivalent to the American Bankers'' Association (ABA), states that credit unions exist to serve members, returning earnings to members in the form of lower loan rates, higher interest on deposits, and lower fees. Where do you think credit unions get their capital?

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 22, 2014

The number of banks will continue to shrink from the present 6,700, and we won’t ever see more banks than we have today. While we may see an uptick in the number of new bank charters from the near zero we have today, too many other industries with less regulation will attract capital. Identify M&A Partners.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Almost every bank and brand we spoke with will increase their investment in these two areas for 2023. This was followed by a focus on banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, open banking, Web 3.0, Any community bank that believes it can keep up and thwart millions of attacks per second is fooling itself.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 15, 2023

It turns out that confidence is more valuable than capital. While we wrote about the root cause of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) HERE , the lessons of the current banking crisis go beyond interest rate risk management. The ratio would provide a bank’s current core capital position to risk-adjusted assets.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Cheerily waving flags for the new “knight of Apple” were the dukes of Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover, and the earls of Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Capital One. In the world of issuers and card brands, there is now an innovator asking to take “just one thin wafer” of interchange revenue.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Bank Merger of the Year. Some interesting finalists would be: M&T and People’s United Old National and First Midwest Webster and Sterling Columbia Bank and Umpqua. Huntington and TCF merge to create the $170 billion Midwest dynamo and vault them into one of the top 10 banks in the country. The Bank That Gets Fintech.

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Long Lasting Ideas

MARCH 1, 2016

If you don’t believe ebullient bankers translate to a blossoming bottom line, consider this: Live Oak is the nation’s second leading Small Business Administration Lender. Its business has spread nationally and Live Oak folks jet around the country on two company-owned planes to meet face-to-face with clients.

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Social Assurance

JULY 16, 2014

If you are one of the thousands of community banks and credit unions in the US that compete against the big 5, here are a few things that may help you to think about the competing with social / digital strategies. If you think you can outpace national advertisers with better crafted ads, you can’t.

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Tech and Finance

JULY 13, 2016

Regional and mid-tier banks face an uphill battle on the digital front, but have advantages they can capitalize on with some focus and determination. Alarm bells are sounding in boardrooms of regional and mid-tier banks across the U.S. Jim Marous, co-publisher of The Financial Brand, said the J.D.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 31, 2023

Likely, it might be a combination of the above, but setting a branching strategy should dictate capital allocation, branch layout, marketing, and staffing. Banks should have a clear and stated set of measurable objectives for their branches and then allocate capital accordingly.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Chris Myers, President & CEO, Citizens Business Bank – During a tumultuous time for West Coast banks, Myers kept his sights on being a top commercial relationship bank. The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. Core System Deal of the Year: Bank.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Community bank marketing resources. With market opportunity heating up and big bank and big credit union competitors hitting hard, too many community banks lack marketing resources … or they have 2X more spending in sponsorships than the campaigns, analytics and digital sales improvements that actually bring in new business.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

Fidor Bank introduced community banking five years ago. Now it is the first bank to offer open RESTful APIs with OAuth2.0, Personal Capital will show the inner workings of a truly data-driven retirement planner based on user’s aggregated data, enhanced by machine learning.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Although all banks faced stock headwinds in 2018, we give the nod to William Demchak at PNC Financial Services. PNC made a Gonzo move with a national digital expansion in 2018 with the unique idea of building a small number of branches in target metro markets like Kansas City and Dallas. GonzoBanker of the Year – Mid-Size Banks.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 23, 2020

the allure of institutional capital is a constant glimmer of greedy, opportunistic hope. As an example, don’t think about Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan who can extend their budget and human capital to defend position. Compare instead something like Fifth Third or Deutsche Bank (both of which we like) to Uniswap and Aave.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 23, 2020

the allure of institutional capital is a constant glimmer of greedy, opportunistic hope. As an example, don’t think about Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan who can extend their budget and human capital to defend position. Compare instead something like Fifth Third or Deutsche Bank (both of which we like) to Uniswap and Aave.

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