Independent Banker

MAY 31, 2021

When I transitioned from a community bank CEO to ICBA president and CEO, my team gave me a beautiful handmade card with notes and best wishes. In this time of change, foundational risk and compliance knowledge will anchor your bank as you navigate new developments. What you need to know. icba.org/events.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

“I’m not sure how we would have processed all of the PPP loans and everything else in the last 18 months without some of the technology that we have implemented,” says Chris Jundt, senior vice president and chief lending officer at First State Bank & Trust. Northpointe Bank in Grand Rapids, Mich., Cashing in on efficiencies.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Indeed, deposit levels to transaction accounts among community banks exploded 74% to $896.5 31, 2019, and June 3, 2021, according to the Community Banking in the 21st Century report. It's "business as usual" as far as expectations for compliance staff to remain alert for illicit financial activity. Learn More.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

These community banks are working to fix that through microlending programs. Now, some community banks are launching microlending programs to redress the balance. which operates $12 billion-asset OceanFirst Bank N.A. By Beth Mattson-Teig. in Toms River, N.J.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

A community bank’s practical guide to compliance cost control. When it comes to reducing compliance costs, recommendations typically fall into complicated territory. Complicated or not, one thing is certain: Community banks can’t afford to skimp on their compliance efforts. By Jim Kisch.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are increasingly interested in diversity and inclusion (D&I) compliance requirements for financial institutions. Here are the key areas of D&I policies and practices that community banks may need if these requirements change or become mandatory. By Mary Thorson-Wright. Legislative updates.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Digital: Pigskin Pick-Ups Bankjoy , a digital banking provider, had a funding round led by the Curql Collective Credit Union Service Organization. Core connectivity and API providers CFM and NXTsoft merged, acquiring document workflow provider IMM and rebranding as Kinective.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2016

E-signature is a hot technology now in the industry; many community banks are adopting the technology to keep pace with consumer demographic preferences. If your community bank hasn’t already looked into using e-signatures, now is a good time to start. For the markup to be repeatable and automated, banks need templates.

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Abrigo

MARCH 2, 2023

Experts have highlighted numerous lessons from Southwest’s experience, many of which can benefit bank and credit union executives, regardless of their institution size, as they manage competing priorities for spending and growth initiatives on banking solutions.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Community banks can get up to speed on current legislation and regulations to both protect their customers from unauthorized or false deposit account transactions and to prevent them from happening in the future. of Regulation E specifies the timing and steps banks must take to investigate and resolve EFT errors consumers allege.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Q1 2023 compliance date is near for smaller SEC-reporting financial institutions and private or not-for-profit banks and credit unions, and progress is decidedly mixed, according to the Abrigo 2022 CECL Survey. It can also reduce the time spent on documenting decisions and report writing. 42% expect similar reserve levels.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

While the report recognizes that customer demands and competition from non-traditional banks will shape banking’s future, the report also recognizes that regulatory expectations and scrutiny will continue to increase, for both traditional community banks and non-bank entities that try to enter banking.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Three steps to strengthen your bank’s customer complaint management. Yet community banks, as relationship builders, don’t like to hear customer complaints. Banks need to take steps to prevent what once could become a customer-relations headache from turning into a regulatory migraine. How will a complaint be documented?

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Tips on how to keep up with never-ending Bank Secrecy Act compliance. It may seem lately that complying with Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering rules is a Sisyphean task. Of course, keeping up with those four tasks for managing BSA compliance are enough to keep a team of bankers busy. By Karen Epper Hoffman.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 25, 2016

Audit to check and balance the compliance management process. While the saying irritated the Russians to distraction, the phrase can be a useful reminder for the essential role that effective auditing plays in the compliance process. A bank’s CMS may look impressive and may appear comprehensive on the surface, but is it effective?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest solutions that FinTechs and lenders are developing to ease the PPP lending process for SMBs and FIs alike, with many initiatives focused on enabling regional and community banks to maintain a competitive edge against the biggest banks. LendingTree.

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Independent Banker

JULY 28, 2016

Establishing a comprehensive Compliance Management System. Does it sound like “reality compliance”? The demands of managing regulatory compliance are uncontested, and depending on the disposition of the participants inside and outside of the bank, compliance management exists with varying degrees of problems and adversity.

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ABA Community Banking

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In response to feedback from banks and fintech providers, the Federal Reserve, working with other financial regulatory agencies, is developing a fintech vendor due diligence guide for community banks, that would provide specific information about the documents and information they need to successfully complete their due diligence obligations, Federal (..)

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The CARES Act extended the CECL implementation deadline for many larger community banks until the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Community bankers tell us that while the extension is welcome, they’re already down the road to implementation. ICBA tells FASB CECL isn’t feasible for community banks. By Stephanie Vozza.

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Abrigo

APRIL 14, 2020

Internal plans should document credit concerns and assess current liquidity. Document plans for credit concerns. First, the internal plan needs a documented plan for credit concerns, including borrower forbearance, loan initiatives, etc. This flow of repayments is the major source of “liquidity” in the community banking system.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We asked both leaders and staffers to tell us what makes their community banks stand out as employers. Key Community Bank: Leading by example. Key Community Bank. At the heart of Key Community Bank’s work culture is connection. Greg Dennis, Key Community Bank. “We

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Far more than any other issue, regulatory compliance is the biggest challenge community bankers experienced in 2015, with 43 percent naming it as such in ICBA’s State of the Community Banking Industry survey. First Security, a $180 million-asset community bank in New Salem, N.D.,

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Abrigo

JULY 16, 2021

Given the AMLA emphasis and the Priorities release, it may be time for community financial institutions to rethink the risks of these more serious crimes and keep criminals at bay. There are many steps community banks and credit unions can take to stop these illicit funds from flowing through our U.S. financial system.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Such resource sharing contemplates reducing costs and increasing efficiencies in the ways banks manage their BSA and AML obligations. The Statement potentially represents another step in an ongoing AML reform process, which increasingly acknowledges the costs of AML compliance to industry.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 23, 2014

CEIS Review , a New York-based bank consulting firm, highlights the shift in a recent article. Community banks certainly want to remain conservative with risks and follow regulations. But shareholders also expect profitability and growth, while keeping costs, especially those related to regulatory compliance, down.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 25, 2016

The result will be more Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering information collection and recordkeeping for community banks, says Lilly Thomas, ICBA vice president and senior regulatory counsel. Designate a compliance officer. New definitions. The customer due-diligence rules also adopt a few new definitions.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency published its supervisory priority objectives for midsize and community banks for 2016. The document provides a general guidance of not only the supervisory priorities of the OCC but also a likely consensus of supervisory trends of other federal regulatory agencies. By Tim Cook.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 2, 2014

According to the BCBS’s Basel III framework document published in December 2010 and revised in June 2011, the main objective is to improve banks’ “ability to absorb shocks arising from financial and economic stress. Over the next few years, the percentage gradually increases to 2.5%, effective January 1, 2019.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 26, 2015

Paperless document-signing technology is growing among banks and consumers. Today, many community banks are exploring how to “go paperless”—whether for cost reasons, a better customer experience or a deliberate outreach to a younger, technology-oriented demographic. By Mark Pfeifer.

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Abrigo

JULY 30, 2015

Will I still be in compliance with capital ratios? And given that Basel III is out and effective, will I be in compliance with fully phased-in Basel III capital ratios?”. In addition, institutions – especially community banks -- have operational concerns, McNairy added. “Do

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Independent Banker

MAY 26, 2016

Becky Miller, Farmers Trust and Savings Bank. It’s yet another fiasco of meddlesome overregulation that could have been avoided, says Becky Miller, vice president and compliance officer for the $90 million-asset Farmers Trust and Savings Bank in Williamsburg, Iowa. By Tim Cook.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 26, 2015

The bank’s mortgage company has developed a national retail lending presence over the last 18 months using phones and email, rather than branch offices. “We We get the disclosure back faster” when borrowers digitally sign documents exchanged by email, Webster notes. Lia webster, private bank of buckhead. Legal aspects.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Under the right circumstances, providing residential mortgages that fall outside of the new federal Qualified Mortgage definition could help a community bank grow its lending, some community bankers say. a $613 million-asset community bank serving central and northern Wisconsin that engages in non-QM lending.

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Community Bank Lending Community Survey 70

Gonzobanker

MARCH 6, 2020

One of Cornerstone’s community bank clients uses RPA to reverse temporary daily POS limit increases, which its related bank system does not permit, eliminating a formerly manual daily process. Technology: The ‘Must Have’ List Is Growing. Loan and deposit operations processes often utilize myriad systems to manage daily work.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

The IRS is hiring and training more than 3,000 agents to enforce its Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), and the onus is now on the payer to collect all necessary tax documents from the payee and validate the info on those forms. AvidXchange. DadeSystems.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

The IRS is hiring and training more than 3,000 agents to enforce its Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), and the onus is now on the payer to collect all necessary tax documents from the payee and validate the info on those forms. AvidXchange. DadeSystems.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 28, 2016

As in past years, community bankers will have a dynamic regulatory environment to contend with in 2016. Safety and soundness concerns will remain a prominent driver of that supervisory dynamic for community banks. What should community banks anticipate here? IB: So what should community banks anticipate here?

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