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. icba.org/events. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing.

Course 104

Course Community Bank Community Compliance 104

Abrigo

APRIL 1, 2015

A recent Wall Street Journal article by Victoria McGrane and Jon Hilsenrath highlighted how the nation’s regulators are increasingly questioning and turning their focus toward bank boards. These smaller banks have also seen new, and more frequent, attention from regulators. How complex is the bank’s operating model?

Risk Management 150

Risk Management Community Bank Regulation Boston 150

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.

Technology 195

Technology Lending Community Software 195

Abrigo

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Community banks are expanding their loan portfolios to include more small business loans, according to the most recent Community Bank Performance report by the FDIC. Loans across categories increased, with commercial and industrial loans growing at the fastest rate, roughly 5.3 percent over the 3rd quarter of 2013.

Training 170

Training Policies Analysis Community Bank 170

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. One potential use of surplus budget funds is to get your bank or credit union’s loan review process automated for 2022. Learn More.

Conference 195

Conference San Antonio Lending Fraud 195

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. Finastra partnered with Glia for digital customer service.

Fintech 103

Fintech Software Illinois Lending 103

Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Across the banking industry a current strategic focus is loan growth – increasing the portfolio by both acquiring new customers and expanding services offered to existing customers. Particularly for community banks and credit unions , many of which find themselves in a very competitive environment, growing a loan portfolio can be challenging.

Software 150

Software System Risk Management Community Bank 150

Abrigo

AUGUST 5, 2020

Credit memos are one of the most important documents in the life of the loan, as loan committees use these documents to determine whether or not to approve a loan. Therefore, it’s essential that the credit memo captures the complete picture of the borrower to ensure proper risk management.

Management 195

Management Risk Management Trends Industry 195

Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

This is particularly true for community banks preparing to undergo their next regulatory safety and soundness or compliance examination. Regulators and industry consultants agree that community banks are generally doing a great job handling their regulatory oversight and requirements.

Compliance 101

Compliance Regulation Community Bank Community 101

Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Pillar #2: Leaders Transcend Daily Hustle to Build New Systems Most regional and community banks grew up executing the fundamentals with sheer hustle and hard work. risk management and operations, trust becomes the fuel to move quickly across organizational lines, and trust becomes the personal currency of leaders.

Leadership 158

Leadership Industry Management Resources 158

Abrigo

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

They are routinely experiencing processes that add costs, delay turnaround times, and can lead to inconsistency in pricing and risk management. The list goes on, and we haven’t even gotten into creating closing documents or credit presentations.

Lending 243

Lending Survey Data System 243

Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

To reduce the need for face-to-face engagement during the initial PPP application window, some community financial institutions leveraged technology that enabled their bank or credit union to develop a “digital branch.” Lending & Credit Risk. Credit Risk Management. Lending & Credit Risk. Learn More.

Lending 259

Lending Community San Antonio Survey 259

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.

Community Bank 70

Community Bank Minneapolis Community Online 70

Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

To reduce the need for face-to-face engagement during the initial PPP application window, some community financial institutions leveraged technology that enabled their bank or credit union to develop a “digital branch.” Lending & Credit Risk. Credit Risk Management. Lending & Credit Risk. Learn More.

Lending 195

Lending Community San Antonio Survey 195

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?

Community Bank 70

Community Bank Community Regulation Lending 70

Abrigo

APRIL 15, 2022

Regulators expect that for institutions to maintain adequate levels of liquidity, banks and credit unions must be able to meet both expected and unexpected cash flow and collateral needs without adversely affecting daily operations or financial performance. Key assumptions should be reviewed, documented, and approved annually.

Management 195

Management Meeting Risk Management Operations 195

Abrigo

JULY 30, 2015

In addition, institutions – especially community banks -- have operational concerns, McNairy added. “Do These steps include properly supporting and documenting each of the following: quantitative factors, qualitative factors and any unallocated reserves. “Will I still be in compliance with capital ratios?

Data 150

Data Community Bank Capital Compliance 150

Gonzobanker

MARCH 6, 2020

Loan and deposit operations processes often utilize myriad systems to manage daily work. 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.

Operations 93

Operations System Groups Technology 93

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. According to James L.

Capital 150

Capital Philadelphia Policies Strategy 150

Abrigo

APRIL 22, 2024

As a share of their total assets, community banks have more business loans below $1 million than larger banks, according to the St. When a small business owner can upload supporting documents securely anytime from anywhere, the bank or credit union spends less time chasing documents.

Lending 243

Lending St. Louis Community Marketing 243

Gonzobanker

MARCH 23, 2020

Cornerstone Advisors has been a broken record telling the story of a community banking industry that’s falling behind in online and mobile capabilities. Our long novels about slowly losing ground to the mega banks just became an audio book to be played on high speed while walking between the kitchen and home office to refill on coffee.

Community Bank 135

Community Bank Tools Case Study Online 135

Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Even if you’re not required to use either version of the Cybersecurity Assessment, beta users say it can help your community bank gauge its cybersecurity risks and ultimately guard against cybercrime. At the Bank of Luxemburg, a $290 million-asset community bank in Luxemburg, Wis., Real-world testing. “I

Tools 70

Tools Community Community Bank Security 70

Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Even if you’re not required to use either version of the Cybersecurity Assessment, beta users say it can help your community bank gauge its cybersecurity risks and ultimately guard against cybercrime. At the Bank of Luxemburg, a $290 million-asset community bank in Luxemburg, Wis., Real-world testing. “I

Tools 70

Tools Community Community Bank Security 70

Independent Banker

JULY 28, 2016

Although they vary by format, the content of the agencies’ guidance includes consistent broad-spectrum elements, which may seem largely theoretical, but their framework can be used effectively to manage regulatory requirements and changes. Just how can your community bank do all of those things? Are we meeting those criteria?

Compliance 70

Compliance Training Community Bank Regulation 70

Abrigo

AUGUST 12, 2015

Across the banking industry a current strategic focus is loan growth – increasing the portfolio by both acquiring new customers and expanding services offered to existing customers. Particularly for community banks and credit unions, many of which find themselves in a very competitive environment, growing a loan portfolio can be challenging.

System 150

System Lending Management Risk Management 150

PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

What we need to be told is that we have this document, we have authorization and we’re good to go,” Speight explained. But while Speight agreed that sounds like a terrific way to manage the program — the reality is a bit different — at least right now since the guidance on this topic for bankers has been vague.

Lending 285

Lending Capital Washington Risk Management 285

Abrigo

MARCH 31, 2017

Commercial real estate lending continues to receive regulatory scrutiny and reminders for financial institutions to practice solid risk management. FDIC officials in March outlined several types of weaknesses in loan underwriting, administration and oversight practices that are emerging at some banks with CRE portfolios.

FDIC 186

FDIC Risk Management Analysis Lending 186

Abrigo

JULY 28, 2021

Takeaway 3 Beginning CECL adoption earlier provides time needed for backtesting, documentation, and developing disclosures. Banks and credit unions also need to determine what data has been tested or historically reconciled to make sure that gaps and inconsistencies do not cause problems. CECL implementation and documentation, testing.

Resources 195

Resources San Antonio Data Regulation 195

Gonzobanker

MAY 21, 2019

The following memo outlines my assessment and recommendations concerning our purchase of Acme Bank, a $5 billion institution located in Metropolis, USA. Acme has doubled its size in the past five years with acquisitions of smaller community banks.

Customer Experience 112

Customer Experience Analytics Management Operations 112

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Bank Acquisition of the Year - BB&T Corp. Nice community bank culture fit between the two as well. Bank Merger of the Year – California United Bank and 1 st Enterprise Bank in Los Angeles. Loan numbers are still managed with Excel spreadsheets and assigned at document prep time.

Los Angeles 101

Los Angeles Apple Risk Management California 101

William Mills

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Digital banking solutions for community banks and credit unions. A turnkey solution incorporating CRM, invoicing and payments into a simple solution for the business delivered through the bank’s digital banking solution. I guess in summary it’s SUPER ENCRYPTION for transactions, document movement.

Samsung 69

Samsung Mobile User Experience Google 69

Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Buzz Points partners with community banks and credit unions to reward consumers for buying local and banking local. Empyr’s Online to Offline Ad platform generates revenue for online publishers, including banks and fintech companies, from offline advertisers. Blockstack.io

Company 12

Company Software Analytics Mobile 12

CFPB Monitor

JULY 5, 2022

While fair lending has already been identified as a priority for banking regulators by the Biden Administration, the GAO report, particularly its findings regarding the decline in annual fair lending examinations and deficiency findings leading to matters requiring attention at smaller banks, could further fuel the OCC’s focus on fair lending.

Lending 78

Lending Report Policies Handbook 78