South State Correspondent

JUNE 8, 2022

For decades community banks have structured fixed-rate loans with adjustable features – the most popular structure is a ten-year fixed-rate loan with a five-year reprice. With short-term interest rates expected to rise through 2022, many community banks are reconsidering their ALCO strategies.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Among the most recent headlines, in Asia this past week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the National Bank of Cambodia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), that Business Times said will boost partnerships on FinTech and financial services innovation.

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2024

Seeing generative AI use cases can help bankers, risk managers, and financial crime professionals better understand it. They can more easily consider how to harness genAI's power to enhance their operations, compliance, risk management, and member or customer experience.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Early adopters are earning prestige while investors and a hoard of community banks explore the opportunity to tap into this new source of revenue. As the gold rush period shakes out, Cornerstone predicts only one in five banks will have a strong enough I.T. Pursuing BaaS doesn’t have to take focus away from primary customers.

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Community Bank Strategy Risk Management Fintech 118

Abrigo

MAY 22, 2024

As a share of their total assets, community banks have more business loans below $1 million than larger banks, according to numbers from the St. Despite the complexity and risks, small business lending has immense potential rewards—both economic and social. Louis Fed : [S]mall-business loans—i.e., economic ecosystem.

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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. Despite the complexity and risks, small business lending has immense potential rewards—both economic and social. Louis Fed : [S]mall-business loans—i.e., economic ecosystem.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Takeaway 2 Community banks may face challenges seeking reimbursement for breach of warranty claims filed with other FIs. You might also like this on-demand webinar explaining how fraudsters use checks to their advantage.

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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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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

Mostly, this means getting innovative with deposit and payment products. Building out the ever-important treasury management suite, targeting deposit-rich customer segments, and creating new savings products are all examples of how banks can build deposit balances at low cost, low-rate sensitivity, and high deposit convexity.

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Community Bank Capital Lending Training 195

South State Correspondent

JUNE 13, 2022

Banks that are looking to enhance their risk management practices should consider incorporating the concept of the velocity of risk into their enterprise-wide risk management practices. Some risks occur slowly; others strike quickly and hard. Optimizing Risk.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 30, 2024

Benchmarking can help banks better optimize capital as it gives bank management a sense of what the average is for the industry. Banks that want to be more aggressive with innovation and technology can show they are investing more in technology infrastructure, while banks with a strategy to be less tech-focused can be under.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Trying to manage this fast-paced environment with annual plans, static operating budgets and gatekeeping project management offices is proving too slow and clunky for an industry that has innovators delivering new apps at 10x the pace of traditional banks. Once they run buzzwords and innovations through management’s “B.S.

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Leadership Industry Management Resources 155

ZootBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Banks have to put themselves in competition-type scenarios so they can deliver a superior performance when it counts. Keeping a bank in top shape means fostering innovation. Banks need to decide if they can be nimble enough to compete on their own or if they should develop technology partnerships. Alternative Lenders.

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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. Weekly episodes highlight innovators and industry players driving innovation in the financial services industry.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Capitalizing on PPP innovations for a better experience. 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. SBA Lending.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Key Takeaways Gain an understanding of the current state of banking and future expectations. Plan for new technology and innovations. The banking industry has faced many challenges in 2020, from transitioning to CECL, managing Paycheck Protection Program loans, and navigating an unprecedented economic recession.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Capitalizing on PPP innovations for a better experience. 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. SBA Lending.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Identity management, ID proofing, preventing account takeovers, limiting card-not-present risk, the rise of social engineering on remote workers, and more cyber-crime-as-a-service offerings had most of the buzz. However, of course, it was generative AI that remained at the peak of the hype cycle.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. The “What the Hell Are Bankers Doing?”

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Regardless of the name, nonbank technology firms are wedging themselves between community banks and their customers by offering a slew of traditional and nontraditional banking products. This is why ICBA and community banks must continue to push consistent regulation of bank and nonbank financial service providers.

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Community Bank Community Analytics Lending 70

Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Welcome to the Crescent City, where the largest educational gathering of community bankers convenes this month. It’s Community Banking LIVE 2016 in New Orleans. The Peoples Bank Co. Tech entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author on business creativity, innovation and reinvention. Centinel Bank of Taos.

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Community Bank Community Innovation Customer Experience 70

CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2016

The CFPB has announced the appointment of new members to its Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, Credit Union Advisory Council, and Academic Research Council. Retail Bank, Citibank, New York, NY. Arjan Schutte, Founder and Managing Partner, Core Innovation Capital, Los Angeles, CA.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 26, 2015

At some community banks, budgeting for technology has become a more important focus over the past several years. If the project is something that can make a bank more profitable in the short term or long term, the bank should make the purchase, whether it was budgeted for or not. State Bank and Trust Co.

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Community Bank Community Management Maryland 70

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Banks and credit unions had to fundamentally change their delivery, support and relationship management models at scopes and speeds that were unheard of. And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Jill is continually demonstrating just how loud a $300 million community bank can roar!

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Idaho Community Industry Strategy 172

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. Top Banking Challenges: Finding Growth in 2021 and Beyond. Lending & Credit Risk. Risk Ratings.

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Lending Technology Survey Examples 221

South State Correspondent

MARCH 15, 2023

While we wrote about the root cause of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) HERE , the lessons of the current banking crisis go beyond interest rate risk management. While interest rate risk caused the most significant impact on value, several other factors contributed to the terminality of each bank that was closed.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

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?). What caused a dot-com bubble? credit default swaps anyone?).

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FDIC Community Bank Regulation Lending 78

Insights on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

With the rapid mass adoption of digital, mobile and other innovative technologies, fintech is forcing banks and other financial service organizations to modernize and to keep up with technology advancements that are accepted in other industries. Do you agree? And what can be done to turn this challenge into an opportunity?

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System Fintech Innovation Industry 70

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

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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

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Tools Community Community Bank Security 70

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

. ————————————————————————— The ‘En Vogue’ Trend of the Year – Credit unions buying community banks. The bank’s strategy is laser-focused. It is an innovator with tech (e.g.,

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Idaho Conference Data Marketing 148

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Huntington and TCF merge to create the $170 billion Midwest dynamo and vault them into one of the top 10 banks in the country. This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. GonzoBanker of the Year – Bank. Goes to Eric Sprink, Coastal Community Bank , Everett, Wash.

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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.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

No one has been more successful at using social media to generate awareness and a positive image for their bank than Jill (@JillCastilla, @CitizensEdmond). Bank Innovation named Jill one of the 10 most innovative CEOs in banking for 2015, and we doubt that Bank Innovation would know who Jill is if not for her presence on Twitter.

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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. Risk Management. ??? takes Susquehanna Bancshares Inc. That’s one helluva move up. EVP: Hell no.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The selection was based on several factors, including company-submitted data, business model, tech innovation, marketplace momentum, team strength, and more. According to CB Insights market sizing data , the global market for IT for banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) industry is projected to reach nearly $150B by 2022.

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