Remove Community Bank Remove FDIC Remove Marketing Remove Retail
article thumbnail

How a Community Bank Launched a Retail Crypto Platform

ABA Community Banking

Banks of all sizes are hearing from many customers that they want exposure to the fast-growing but volatile cryptocurrency market. Vast Bank recently became the first nationally chartered, FDIC-insured bank to offer crypto banking.

article thumbnail

The Death of the Community Bank

Jeff For Banks

In June of 2008 I gave a speech titled "The Death of the Community Bank" and in that speech I made predictions. Prediction: The General Bank will become extinct. Much like competitors nip at community banks' customers. Eighteen percent of that group opened an account at a digital bank. Result: Mixed.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

FDIC Partners With Operation Hope to Promote Financial Education

ABA Community Banking

The FDIC today said it has partnered with the nonprofit Operation Hope to promote financial education to minority and women-owned businesses. Through the partnership, Operation Hope will use the FDIC's Money Smart financial education resources to help teach how to do business with the agency.

FDIC 119
article thumbnail

FDIC: Share of Unbanked Americans Reaches Record Low in 2019

ABA Community Banking

households that are unbanked continued falling in 2019, reaching 5.4%, the lowest rate yet recorded in a biennial FDIC report. The post FDIC: Share of Unbanked Americans Reaches Record Low in 2019 appeared first on ABA Banking Journal. The share of U.S.

FDIC 56
article thumbnail

2020 CRE Outlook: Trends Expected to Shape Commercial Real Estate Lending

Abrigo

“Macy’s closing 125 stores signals ‘more pain’ for retailers,” ABC News reported Feb. Retailers like Pier 1, Papyrus and Express are closing 1,000 stores. Community financial institution lenders, however, will want to “pick their spots” for CRE loans this year. “2020 could be a pivotal year for the U.S. Learn more.

Lending 195
article thumbnail

Compliance burdens: Reducing bank products and services

Abrigo

The ABA’s 2015 Survey of Bank Compliance Officers , conducted February through March 2015, had participation from more than 450 financial institutions, with almost 80 percent being community banks. ABA president and CEO, Frank Keating, commented that Dodd-Frank has impacted banks, their customers and the communities they serve.

article thumbnail

Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

In the late 90s, low interest rates made speculative equity investments more attractive than bonds, and at the same time, innovative internet companies grew in popularity among retail investors, professional traders, venture capitalists, and the like (familiar?). The Y2K scare also had companies pouring money into tech firms. What caused it?

FDIC 78