Abrigo

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The banking industry has faced many challenges in 2020, from transitioning to CECL, managing Paycheck Protection Program loans, and navigating an unprecedented economic recession. More than 500 banking professionals across the country gathered for a two-day 2020 ThinkBIG: Manage Risk. Drive Growth.

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Abrigo

JUNE 8, 2017

To ensure that underwriting and portfolio management satisfy regulatory expectations as well as industry best practices 2. To provide bank management and the board with an objective assessment of credit quality and ongoing portfolio management 3. Additional Resources Managing member business lending risk Hiring headache?

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 9, 2024

During the prior break, I struck up a conversation with a person from Lendio , a small business lending platform, that was there to promote their white-label platform to bankers. Back in 2015, almost nine years ago, I wrote an article about banks building their own small business loan platforms. How do I calculate that ROI?

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Banks consistently produce under their cost of capital. For example, at present, return on equity performance is about 12% for the average community bank. However, for the average bank, their cost of capital is between 9% and 14% depending on the bank’s equity liquidity with an average of 12.5%. Why is that?

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Abrigo

AUGUST 28, 2022

Leveraging the efficiencies gained from lending software Banks and credit unions that leverage an integrated lending and credit platform reap the benefits of a consistent, efficient and defensible lending program. Lending and Credit Software. Ag Lending. Lending & Credit Risk. Learn More.

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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. You can also incorporate the results into the asset/liability management model and develop stress testing scenarios down the road.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 23, 2023

The root cause of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) failure is poor risk management – plain and simple. Bankers need to understand and manage their business on the fair value of assets and liabilities instead of managing their business on net interest margin and the amortized historical cost of assets and liabilities.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Southern Bancorp partners with other community banks to increase loan accessibility and financial literacy to low-income customers. As CEO of Southern Bancorp, Darrin Williams wants to promote relationships between community banks and CDFIs to create more prosperous communities. Better serving its communities.

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South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The yield curve shape is an excellent opportunity for community bankers to provide sound risk mitigation and balance sheet management advice to borrowers. We see many community bank borrowers desperately seeking a trusted advisor to help guide them through this volatile cycle. The Shape of the Yield Curve. Conclusion.

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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

One of the lessons that was driven home at the recent American Banker Small Business Banking Conference in Nashville was the difference in marketing between large national banks and community banks, particularly deposit marketing. Many banks fall into the “recency trap.” Bank engagement is a habit.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 4, 2024

And, according to some EDP students that are lenders, are turning to the shadow banking market that do not have deposit demands. Such as direct lending funds, and insurance companies. Shadow Banking refers to banking-like operations that take place outside of the mainstream banking industry.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Thankfully for bank and credit union executives, lenders, risk managers, and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Officers, banking podcasts and podcasts for credit unions are plentiful, and options are growing. Banking Resources. Of course, there are numerous other excellent banking podcasts available that are worth a listen.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2022

In this article, we analyze the industry’s cost of funding earning assets (COF) and track how community banks’ COF behaves relative to larger banks. In future articles, we will explain our modeling for community banks’ COF based on inflation, Fed Funds rates, consumer consumption and the Fed’s balance sheet runoff.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

In addition, Ally Bank and Barclays have high-yield offerings that earn 2.2 Of course, those more than beat the national average on checking accounts, which is currently at a 0.08 In addition, Wealthfront works with FDIC-insured partner banks — including East West Bank , New York Community Bank and others — to hold customers’ deposits.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

For value, the Federal Reserve estimates that a college grad will make about $830,000 over the course of a lifetime; the Georgetown University Center for Education and the Workforce estimates the value at around a cool million. Lending-as-a-Service. There are currently 13,000 community banks in the U.S.,

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

As in past years, community bankers will continue to contend with a dynamic, highly competitive lending environment in 2016. Several trends have arisen that are likely to continue shaping the commercial lending market. Here are five commercial lending trends from some of the industry’s top commercial lenders.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Just about every community bank makes commercial real estate loans. A whopping 95 percent of ICBA members are active commercial real estate (CRE) lenders, according to the latest ICBA Community Bank Lending Survey. Responsible lending. Regulators warn once again about rising CRE concentrations and risks.

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Independent Banker

JULY 29, 2016

These in-depth and timely professional development programs are designed exclusively for community bankers and led by nationally recognized industry experts who know the issues community banks grapple with. Each certification course is designed to prepare bank professionals to handle essential tasks and responsibilities.

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Independent Banker

MAY 31, 2022

Ted Whitehurst, Providence Bank president and CEO, led the charge to open a new brick-and-mortar location of the Raleigh, N.C., community bank during the pandemic. Providence Bank chose to open a new brick-and-mortar site during the pandemic, when many other businesses were ceasing operations or shutting down altogether.

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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? The trends apply to commercial and retail lending.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 27, 2011

I was at a strategic planning retreat a few weeks back where a colleague lauded the concept of bankers getting back to plain vanilla community banking. But if you read or watch interviews of CEOs of community FIs from 2008 forward, you will be bombarded with the message that they didn''t engage in the things that led to the collapse.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Greg Steverson (left) successfully manages a $100 million institutional investment portfolio for Ledyard National Bank in Norwich, Vt. Mikella Newsom (middle) successfully manages a $325 million institutional investment portfolio for City Bank in Lubbock, Texas. Investment principles of top bank portfolio managers.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

When a community financial institution spends a lot of money on technology, the last thing management wants is to be disappointed. What to do with a project gone askew Among his tips for coping with a project that seems to be going off course? Community banks are often resource-starved,” he said. “In Credit Risk.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 1, 2019

Courtesy of their Sovereign Bank bailout, ummm… acquisition. I've heard opinions on whether a community bank should buy checking accounts. Sure, the big banks seem to be on the bandwagon. Jeff For Banks readers likely get these offers. One bank controller opens accounts for all offers and gladly takes the cash.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Over the next three years, Anderson enrolled in all three of Community Banker University’s in-depth compliance certification training programs. I also benefit from the respect I get from our board and CEO, and definitely from the bank examiners. I’m a better compliance officer because of those programs,” she says. “I

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 28, 2023

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. With a well thought out plan, course modifications can be made with confidence.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 26, 2016

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. This is a mindset shift for communities. Entrepreneurs are the ones who will transform the community.”. They’re not managed well.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 29, 2016

Officials with the banking regulatory agencies recently outlined best practices they encourage as they relate to evaluating an institution’s fair lending risk, and one of those best practices was to document pricing and other underwriting criteria, including exceptions. See the PDF: Section 2040, page 265.)

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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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Independent Banker

MAY 2, 2016

At Bank VI, our goal is to build relationships—the kind of relationships where we can tell people “no” on loan requests that don’t make sense for them and go on to help them set a plan to achieve their next target or financial goal in the future, if they’ll stay the course. We are experts at commercial lending and residential lending.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 10, 2023

The reality is, of course, the money is technically there. Banks will move that money from a “master account” via an internal transfer, wire, ACH, card, or other rail to the appropriate destination later that day. It eats up a substantial number of resources for a bank and often causes a less-than-optimal customer experience.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Thoughtful lending and an open mind keep profits strong for incoming ICBA chairman Jack Hartings. The Peoples Bank Co. While out-of-town lenders gave money to customers requiring no down payments to buy overpriced homes that they couldn’t afford, Hartings, the president and CEO of The Peoples Bank Co. By Kelly Pike.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

In the competition between large banks and smaller ones, technology lends an edge, said Cullen. Smaller banks will have to use a variety of tools to displace the big banks and also displace firms like PayPal to keep consumers coming into, and staying with, the local banks (and cross sell more financial products).

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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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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Even though the industry identified several major regulatory burdens, including those posed by the Truth in Lending Act and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, few substantive regulations were repealed. Many community bankers concluded that the EGRPRA is little more than a “check the box” process for regulators. Starting fresh.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Endless CRM and data management projects that shook our foundations and gutted our PMOs. THE BANKING AWARDS. Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. GonzoBanker of the Year – Large Banks. This year brought us: Mergers out the yin-yang.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Last year, community bank loan producers were faced with both record-low interest rates and a glut of deposits. But as they always do, they came through for individuals and businesses in their communities with a combination of personalized service and prudent risk management practices. Photo by Linkes Photography.

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