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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.

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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.

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

PYMNTS

ILCs are used to form industrial loan companies, better known as industrial banks. An industrial bank is an FDIC-insured depository institution that is generally subject to the same banking laws and regulations as any other bank charter type, with the important exception of the Bank Holding Act of 1956.

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Why Branch Building (Sometimes) Makes Sense

Celent Banking

In retail for example, there have been an abundance of headlines trumpeting the growth of digital commerce alongside struggling same-store sales at brick-and-mortar locations. In retail banking, everyone knows branch footfall has been in decline along with teller transaction volumes – and everyone knows why.

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CFPB: Are They Coming to Get You?

Jeff For Banks

A bank trade association CEO asked me a couple of questions while he was researching an op-ed piece. Shouldn't the CFPB work to address the impediments to starting a bank in LMI markets rather than punish community banks who scrambled to serve their customers when the economy shut down? The edited Q&A is below.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

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. The bank provides crop insurance to farmers in 11 states.

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Is Your Contemplated Bank Merger Anti-Competitive?

Jeff For Banks

As part of this effort, we have engaged in conversations and received feedback from community banks about the Board's competitive analysis framework and its impact on their business strategies and long-term growth plans. Market shares for a local banking market are based on the deposits of depository institutions in the market.