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Community Banks Debut FinTech Alliance

PYMNTS

To that end, news came earlier this week in the United States that a dozen community and regional banks have formed a group aimed at exploring the opportunities amid FinTech offerings. Among the names joining up are Citizens & Northern Bank (based in Pennsylvania), Inland Bank (Illinois) and Lincoln Savings Bank (Iowa).

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Wells Fargo Taps Former Mastercard Exec To Run Merchant Services

PYMNTS

Taylor also previously worked at Capital One, Chase Manhattan Bank and JPMorgan. She graduated from Spelman College and earned her MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first day will be Aug. 26, and she will be based in New York City.

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Growing a mortgage portfolio: Encourage borrowers to bank local

Abrigo

With mortgage rates down in the US , many homebuyers are looking locally to their community banks to finance their new, potentially life-changing purchase. In the spirit of the go local movement, new data from Sageworks Bank Information peeked in on 10 cities to see which community banks were making an impact on local mortgage lending.

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CB Financial joins parade of banks divesting insurance units

American Banker

The Pennsylvania bank has agreed to sell its Exchange Underwriters subsidiary to World Insurance Associates for $30.5 million, saying that the deal will help pad its capital and liquidity.

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How Can Banks Thrive in the Next Five Years?

Jeff For Banks

Indeed, since the banking laws that were spawned from the Great Depression, banking has been stable, reliable, and boring. I know, my first job in banking in 1985 at Northeastern Bank of Pennsylvania was making microfiche. First Internet Bank in Indiana was founded in 1998. billion in total assets.

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Where will banks get their next dollar of capital?

Jeff For Banks

Many banks had to replenish lost capital. Absent or in concurrence with government-injected capital, FIs sought fresh capital. This was one of the points made by Lisa Schultz of Stifel, Nicolaus, Weisel, an investment banking firm that specializes in FIs, at a recent Pennsylvania bankers conference.

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Bankers: Here's What We Do

Jeff For Banks

I work for The Kafafian Group, a community bank consulting firm based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Many of my readers might not know what my firm does, so I want to dedicate this post to the problems we help community bankers solve.

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