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Community Bank Outlook: Challenges and Opportunities in 2021 and Beyond

Abrigo

How can community financial institutions thrive in 2021? Community banks provide unique and important banking services for their customers, but they also face significant obstacles. Takeaway 1 Community banks play an important role in the economy and their communities, but they face significant obstacles.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Philadelphia.

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Onward Financial’s Employer-Backed Payday Loan Alternative

PYMNTS

In an effort to innovate a solution to these cash flow challenges, Washington founded Onward Financial. Founded in 2016, the firm ended 2018 as one of 10 firms nationwide to be awarded $1 million grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Communities Thrive Challenge.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

The CFPB has announced the appointment of new members to its Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, Credit Union Advisory Council, and Academic Research Council. Arjan Schutte, Founder and Managing Partner, Core Innovation Capital, Los Angeles, CA. Community Bank Advisory Council Members.

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Nurturing New Businesses

Independent Banker

Of course, community banks are the primary economic engines behind small businesses on Main Street America, funding more than 60 percent of all small-business lending. When you’re looking at key issues in the community, bring entrepreneurs to the table and ask them to solve it—because that’s who solves things,” Williamson insists.

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Banking's Total Return Top 5: 2014 Edition

Jeff For Banks

capital appreciation and dividends. They are built as a relationship bank serving the Korean community in LA and surrounding areas. The lion''s share of their growth, profitability, and capital have come since their re-branding to Open Bank in 2010. Not so over the three years I have been keeping track. BofI Holding, Inc.

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Temenos to Acquire Kony: So What?

Gonzobanker

For Kony clients, the Temenos deal eliminates the distraction that could have been associated with an IPO and provides a strong, well-capitalized parent. This group is known to be pretty adaptive and innovative, so prepare to test the agile skills. Importantly, no one at Temenos is claiming, “It will be business as usual.”