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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. Leveraging social media, Gentle Monster started to get traction.

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The ICBA 22/23 executive committee is all in

Independent Banker

Executive committee members tell us what advocacy issues they’ll be focused on during their terms, while board members share their words of wisdom for up-and-coming community bankers: themselves. To sum it up, these leaders are all in and all heart for community banking. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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The Current Banking Crisis – 10 Not So Apparent Lessons

South State Correspondent

Funding Capacity as a % of Uninsured Deposits: Calculating a bank’s total liquidity lines as a percentage of uninsured deposits is now in vogue. The ratio would provide a bank’s current core capital position to risk-adjusted assets. 9) Brand Matters: SVB had one of the best brands in banking.

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The Velocity of Risk – What Bankers Need To Know

South State Correspondent

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. In this age of social media, global interconnectedness, and market volatility, banks can be one tweet torrent away from a lightning-fast onset of risk.

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10 Data-Driven Ideas To Increase Branch Engagement

South State Correspondent

Five: Last Mile Digital Conversions One of the more successful uses of modern branch strategy is to move non-mobile banking customers onto your bank’s mobile platform. The average community bank may have 30% to 50% on mobile, while the national banks are closer to 80%.

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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?). credit default swaps anyone?). We were concerned about the panic.

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The 2018 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Hats off to Greg for taking a $600 million credit union to a $5 billion innovator over his 25 years at the helm. Greg also leaves the organization knee-deep in technical innovation as PSECU has deployed Corelation core, Kony digital, Temenos origination and Sitecore CMS among other new solutions. Bank Sale of the Year.

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