Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

The Peoples Bank helped the Jones family of Legacy Dairy in Hiseville, Ky., From left, Ally Jones; bank chairman, president and CEO Terry L. Last year, community bank loan producers were faced with both record-low interest rates and a glut of deposits. Ag lending in the South: Relationships matter. By Ed Avis.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

consumer banking and spending on credit cards. In terms of headline numbers, the banking giant reported earnings per share of $2.57, up 21 percent year on year and well above the $2.35 But drilling down a bit, to get a sense of the state of the consumer, retail banking saw fourth-quarter profit rise by about 5 percent to $4.2

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

consumer banking and spending on credit cards. In terms of headline numbers, the banking giant reported earnings per share of $2.57, up 21 percent year on year and well above the $2.35 But drilling down a bit, to get a sense of the state of the consumer, retail banking saw fourth-quarter profit rise by about 5 percent to $4.2

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

NYMBUS secured Series D financing (led by Insight Partners), partnered with Hurdlr for small business banking; with Atty Bank, Saint Louis Bank ’s legal community bank; and with Roger, Citizens Bank of Edmond ’s military niche bank. Credit union lending platform Clutch partnered with Zest.ai

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Here’s how community banks can enhance their payments offerings. of banks’ revenues come from payments. Payments account for up to 30% of bank revenue, and that income stream is under attack. As 2023 kicks off, community banks can respond to today’s payments landscape by addressing five key trends.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Experts say community banks can use education, biometrics and solid cybersecurity practices to fight this growing area of crime. Say a scammer calls a community bank customer and gains their trust by using information obtained from a major data breach. By Elizabeth Judd. Examples of remote authentication fraud.

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2024

Another example of using predictive AI is small business lending software that incorporates AI-driven lending intelligence. Abrigo Small Business Lending Intelligence powered by Charm provides loan rating risk scores, the probability of default, and how the score was calculated.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

New Military Lending Act regulations kick in next fall. Following a three-year study on predatory lending, the U.S. Department of Defense has now issued the final rule to implement the Military Lending Act. Credit card accounts are exempt from compliance until Oct. By Mary Thorson Wright. 3, 2016, compliance date.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Neil Zick, president and CEO of Twin City Bank, helped Tim Norris obtain financing to start The Link Cannabis Co. When Oklahoma legalized the sales of cannabis for medicinal purposes in 2018, executives of $550 million-asset Blue Sky Bank in Tulsa, Okla., It’s a strategy that an increasing number of community banks are embracing.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 12, 2018

When I first read Standards Needed for Safe, Small Installment Loans from Banks, Credit Unions by the Pew Charitable Trusts that encouraged financial institutions to get back into small ticket consumer lending, I thought “what are they nuts!” So why would banks expand small-ticket, unsecured personal lending?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Capital One Halts BNPL Transactions On Its Credit Cards. Capital One Financial Corp is putting a stop to buy now, pay later (BNPL) transactions on its credit cards, calling the dealings “ risky ,” for both consumers and banks. to advance secure, contactless transactions as stores reopen amid COVID-19 restrictions.

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Independent Banker

JULY 29, 2016

Big Savings—ICBA’s Dan Clancy and Travelers’ Laura Lundin hold a big check representing the $3 million dividend paid this year to community banking participating in the ICBA-Travelers property-and-casualty insurance Preferred Service Provider program. ICBA Bancard & TCM Bank, N.A. ICBA Services Network.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 27, 2023

It’s a way for banks to speak with each other, and it started to be phased in during the first quarter of this year with the goal of a complete conversion by 2025. While this is mostly the domain of large banks, there are three reasons why your community bank should consider adopting this language to increase future bank performance.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Regardless of the name, nonbank technology firms are wedging themselves between community banks and their customers by offering a slew of traditional and nontraditional banking products. This puts consumer data, and potentially credit ratings, reputations and bank accounts, in jeopardy. Siphoning customers.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. How Banks Can Leverage: Niche markets abound in banking, and community banks are in the perfect position to create a following on a national level should they desire.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Nearly 80 percent also pointed to personal credit cards as an easy form of financing for their businesses. Despite a predicted decline in small business borrowing, separate analysis released this month suggests SMBs may have an easier time obtaining a bank loan than they have in the past.

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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. The Bank Regulator Working for Merchants Award!

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Independent Banker

JULY 30, 2015

In Texas, data security, debit card surcharges and compensation for records searches become legislative issues. Some of the most pressing issues this year involved data security breaches, patent trolls, debit card surcharges and reimbursements for litigation records search requests. Data security breaches.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 17, 2020

Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo got a great deal of attention this year when he claimed that the coming decade will be “the biggest tech transformation in the history of banking.” For execs who climbed the ladder in finance, lending or branches, buckle in because the techies are about to steal the show. The delay has been too long.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. So where do ballyhooed mobile banking and payments developments among the biggest players leave community banks?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

Sanborn tells Webster that, at least from where he and Lending Club sit, expanding origination services, honing cost efficiencies and introducing a broadened palette of credit offerings will help the company weather any near-term macroeconomic headwinds. This made our assets attractive.”.

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Independent Banker

JULY 30, 2015

His role is to research, develop and provide members with superior products and services that meet the ever-changing needs of community banks and to help them to increase their competitive advantage. Having the best products and services will help community banks continue to effectively serve and compete in their communities.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Walmart claimed it wanted to leverage the proposed bank mainly for the purpose of lowering costs of its backroom processing of check and credit card transactions and to offer high-interest certificates of deposits. Square already has an SMB lending arm – Square Capital – which it operates through a deal with Utah-based Celtic Bank.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Financial institutions that relied on mortgage banking fee income as a key earnings component have been left to make big adjustments. As if that wasn’t enough, regulators took a sledgehammer to debit fee income with Reg II changes that will begin reducing card-not-present interchange fees starting in July 2023. Goes to Sen.

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Ublocal

MARCH 14, 2022

If you’re unsure of your home’s value, the lending team at Union Bank can help you determine the current amount of equity in your home. A HELOC is a secured loan in which your home equity acts as collateral. These time frames vary from bank to bank, but the concepts of borrowing and repaying remain the same.

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Jeff For Banks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Building a low-cost core deposit base is arguably the most difficult task in banking, and it creates significant value to the publicly traded bank because it is difficult to replicate. Selection: Mitch Englert, EVP of Community Banking, Capital City Bank Group, Inc. What has Monty delivered to Security Bank?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Check out the startups that secured funding rounds this week below. Alternative Lending. Also landing a bit of debt funding was India’s Cash Suvidha, which secured $2.5 company said it secured $10 million in funding, which will go toward expanding staff and opening a new office, reports said. Treasury Management.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Financial institutions went from having no PPP lending program at all to funding their first loan in 90 days – and this with literally last-minute regulatory guidance. The Tiny Bank that Did It Award UBank of Texas.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

credit card processing company Vantiv to buy Worldpay, was finalized for $10.4 The regulatory bodies spanning the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and FINRA have imposed fines that are less than last year by two-thirds, to the tune of $489 million through June of this year. Outside the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2016

There are the traditional routes, like small business bank loans, and then there are the alternative and online lending sources. On top of that, small businesses are commonly using personal means – friends and family or personal credit cards – to support their enterprises.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is examining the Community Reinvestment Act, which in part means that rules governing short-term lending may be reversed, and would let community banks compete more directly against payday lenders. FinTech Innovation and Cooperation in the Cards? Last Monday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

Debit cards, default cards, banks both bricks-and-mortar and digital. That brings up some questions for banks: What are the opportunities for banks with debit, and with branches, and even with ATMs? Debit card usage is habit-driven, he said, and habit has grown roots over the last several years.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Having to pay near SOFR rates will give you a false sense of security, cost you more in the long run, and slowly erode franchise value. Marketing is one of the largest value drivers in banking. You can’t get ten triple-digit project ROIs in a row in lending, credit, mortgage, wealth, insurance, or several other areas.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The most valuable of these freshly minted unicorns are blockchain startup Ripple ($10B valuation) and challenger banks Chime ($5.8B) and N26 ($3.5B). Eight companies on our list have gone public: Freee , Bill.com, Tyro Payments , Prospa , Lakala Payment , Tiger Brokers , Futu Securities , and PINTEC.

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FICO

MAY 6, 2020

It would be easier and faster to only serve people they had already vetted, so they tell customers that an existing loan or credit card account is required to get a PPP loan. The Piedmont Bank’s policy is “first come, first serve.” We will soon see who wins this race between community banks and big banks.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Community banks, which will continue to face a growing number of senior customers with everyday cash needs and built-up home equity, should explore this niche lending opportunity, two community bankers providing these specialty loans suggest. The bank has a goal of closing 100 reverse mortgages each month this year.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Credit cards offer rewards but over 60% of payments are made on debit cards. Demo: Sezzle app with knowledge based authentication to link bank accounts. It’s all done through the smartphone, with bank-level security. Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security.

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