Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

With consumer expectations seeming to evolve faster every year, community banks could consider partnering with a fintech to keep up with technological innovation. Swashbuckling, nimble, well-funded and unapologetically entrepreneurial, fintechs are offering innovations that allow community bankers to dream big in a host of ways.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Loan Decisioning Allows Small Business Lending to Grow Community financial institutions can leverage automated loan underwriting to increase small business lending and achieve consistency. . Takeaway 2 Loan decisioning allows institutions to efficiently allocate credit analysts’ time for profitable small business lending.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

This year’s winners: Left: Central Valley Community Bank, People’s Choice Award; Middle: Kennebec Savings Bank, Exceptional Community Bank Service Award; Right: Cross River Bank, Emerging Service Program Award. Exceptional Community Bank Service Award. Kennebec Savings Bank.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

Community banks are pushing for a stronger role with their small business (SMB) customers. However, through an embrace of FinTech collaboration and industry consolidation, community banks appear poised to further dispel assumptions of a lack of digitization. A Consolidating Industry. Strengthening SMB Ties.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

.; CNB Bank, Berkeley Springs, W.Va.; Midwest Bank, Norfolk, Neb. In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. Bank of Montana: Breaking the mold. Bank of Montana.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Independent Banker ’s annual Community Bank CEO Outlook survey reveals how community bank leaders plan to leverage today’s deposit-laden banking environment to grow this year. Janet Silveria, Community Bank of Santa Maria. So, what’s at the top of community bank leaders’ to-do lists?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Are community banks missing the chance to climb aboard the faster payments train? However, if recent developments in the financial services industry are any indication, innovation waits for no institution, company, agency or, for that matter, Fed report. faster payments system. faster payment 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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Alloy’s Julieann Thurlow, CEO of Reading Cooperative Bank, said, “Community banks play a special role in the lives of our customers, but we don’t have the same IT and innovation budgets as the big banks to capitalize on that relationship.”

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Last week, the American Banking Association (ABA) held its annual Bank Marketing Conference in Denver, receiving rave reviews. The theme was – developing your marketing superpowers. Amid the brewery networking, superhero costumes, and fun, some fantastic bank marketing lessons were had, and not just for bank marketers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. The traditional banking model may be disrupted, or about to be disrupted, depending on where you look. Necessity is the mother of invention. That’s adjusted for inflation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

Small community banks may not have the ample resources that Wells Fargo or Bank of America have to develop high-tech, experimental solutions internally. At least, Seacoast Bank VP and Digital Project Manager Jeff Lee and CEO Denny Hudson believe so. ” Florida-based Seacoast Bank has $3.5

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Bobsguide

MARCH 30, 2022

Among the migrations recently completed or underway, banks are already seeing material results. Finastra announced that 27 community bank customers are working with Finastra to upgrade their legacy core banking solutions to Fusion Phoenix. This is in addition to 15 banks which went live last year.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 29, 2016

ICBA and CUNA state that the proposal “if finalized in its current form, would unquestionably disrupt lending by credit unions and community banks.” ” ICBA and CUNA indicate that the proposal’s exceptions need to be broader for community banks and credit unions to remain in the small dollar loan market.

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Abrigo

MARCH 2, 2023

You might also like this whitepaper, "Best practices for purchasing bank or credit union software" DOWNLOAD Takeaway 1 As Southwest Airlines learned, technology shortcomings create enormous costs in the short-term and in the future. But experts say that would be a mistake.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Silicon Valley is coming to banking? That happened long ago — just ask Silicon Valley Bank, a financial institution built to serve the world’s center of innovation. SVB claims it banks a staggering two-thirds Read More. Few bankers can claim better knowledge of what the tech giants are up to. Startups, you say?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

MK’s digital lending platform is a high-tech lending solution that reduces the decision-making process down to minutes, saving customers valuable time without sacrificing the exceptional service that they have come to expect from their local relationship banker,” said ICBA Bancard President and CEO Tina Giorgio in the press release.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Takeaway 1 Having a cohesive vision from the top down is critical to a culture of innovation and the successful adoption of new software. . It’s great that more financial institutions are welcoming technological innovations, but banks and credit unions must consider the long-term impact of their partnerships. Start at the Top.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 20, 2023

2022 will go down as one of the worst years for community bank loan mispricing when viewed on a spread basis. Rapidly rising rates crushed performance as many banks held a fixed rate constant and/or booked a fixed rate loan at a misguided level. Banks had tight spreads on loans with 1.2 Multifamily is the other call-out.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

In addition, with the threat of a recession and dramatically increasing cost of funds, there is a solid argument to be made that banks should be shrinking rather than growing. That said, smart banks will make growth a byproduct and ensure they have all their other processes right. Then there is credit. Now is that period.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

At the end of the day, he noted, trust is the critical element at credit unions, and the main differentiator between credit union customers and other banking customers. It’s a statement borne out by the new Credit Union Innovation Playbook , a PYMNTS/ PSCU collaboration. But, Lynch noted, it is still a starting point. For example, 49.1

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

The financial services market has progressed by leaps and bounds in terms of innovation, from the rise of alternative finance to the development of technologies like blockchain and open banking initiatives. author of the report and Florida Atlantic University’s Kaye Family Endowed Professor in Finance.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Headline writers found no shortage of dramatic ways to characterize the final version of the CFPB’s short-term lending rule that dropped yesterday (Oct. But today, the journey came to an end as the CFPB has offered its final ruling on the future of the payday and title lending industry in this country. “The clamp down.” “The

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2024

Background for genAI use cases Defining generative AI for banking Generative AI is a class of artificial intelligence (AI) models that can create new content—text, images, audio, or video—from existing data. It’s showing up in music and entertainment , education , healthcare , and marketing.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 12, 2022

Our focus is on information that pertains to the community banking industry. Jamie Dimon believes that the Fed may hike rates more than the market expects and has indicated that the strongest inflation in 40 years may prompt officials to rethink the pace of the hiking cycle. 3) Community Focused. 5) Pandemic Changes.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Observing the gap in pandemic relief in south Florida due to a lack of local community banks, a trio of banking veterans teamed up to form a digital-first community bank—and were granted a charter in record time to support local businesses. Name: Locality Bank. Keith Costello, Locality Bank. “We

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2019

When I think about how the lending market has changed over the past decade, there is one consistent theme—community banks have been, and continue to be, the backbone of our nation’s financing. This kind of ingenuity prevails in community banking, and this month’s issue features banks with an inventive mindset.

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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. Photo by Dero Sanford.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 16, 2017

A recent Sageworks whitepaper addresses how banks and credit unions can leverage digital channels to grow the loan portfolio and remain competitive with the emerging trend of alt-lenders in the small business lending space.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Other podcasts might be internationally based and of little interest to community financial institutions or credit unions based in the U.S. or largely focused on the domestic banking market. So here’s your head start on finding some banking podcasts that might work for you. Check them all out in our Knowledge Center.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Community banks can maximize profit and increase loan balances using innovative grid-based pricing for their commercial clients. Therefore, attracting long-term, stable, and lower COF deposits is paramount for community banks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Headline writers found no shortage of dramatic ways to characterize the final version of the CFPB’s short-term lending rule that dropped yesterday (Oct. But today, the journey came to an end as the CFPB has offered its final ruling on the future of the payday and title lending industry in this country. “The clamp down.” “The

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Cambr, a cloud-based platform powered by investment firm StoneCastle and digital banking software provider Q2 Holdings, is helping neo-banks and fintechs launch and scale up through a network of 850 community banks.

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Abrigo

MARCH 24, 2021

Growing loans, earnings are banks' top challenges in 2021. The top banking challenges in 2021 are growing loans and earnings, according to Independent Banker’s recent 2021 Community Bank CEO Outlook survey. Technology sets up future lending success. Pandemic-Induced Transformations. Optimize Technology.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

percent of CUs have interest in unveiling products and services for these firms in the next three years,” according to PYMNTS’ recent Credit Union Innovation Playbook: Microbusiness Opportunity Edition. Advanced Banking Tech for Small Operators. percent of these credit unions are eyeing mobile banking capabilities, while 61.1

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The wave of technological innovation that has swept the business world in the past several years has fundamentally altered how many industries do business. Perhaps no industry has been so disrupted by this wave of technological innovation as the banking industry.

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