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7 ways community banks can boost profitability

Independent Banker

A profitability strategy has a lot to factor in given today’s uncertain market. Here’s what community bankers need to know when planning their budgets for the next year. of digital banking customers said they switched to digital banking because of the pandemic. Source: 2021 Provident Bank survey. Quick stat.

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5 ways to shake up your lending strategy

Independent Banker

A new approach to loan protocols is just one way for community banks to grow in new and different directions. Assessing best practices, rates, marketing efforts and more can position loan producers for future success in unpredictable market conditions. David, Community Bank Consulting Services, Inc.

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Teflon Tim: You Can't Mess With Wells Fargo

Jeff For Banks

March 2017 - Failed the OCC's community lending test causing "significant harm to customers." As part of my comments, I presented the following table of New Jersey Deposit Market Share. I also included the USA deposit market share. Notice the bigger banks all held serve and maintained leading market share.

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Business Trend Lines

Independent Banker

As in past years, community bankers will continue to contend with a dynamic, highly competitive lending environment in 2016. Several trends have arisen that are likely to continue shaping the commercial lending market. Here are five commercial lending trends from some of the industry’s top commercial lenders.

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Will "Plain Vanilla" Kill Community Banking?

Jeff For Banks

I was at a strategic planning retreat a few weeks back where a colleague lauded the concept of bankers getting back to plain vanilla community banking. But if you read or watch interviews of CEOs of community FIs from 2008 forward, you will be bombarded with the message that they didn''t engage in the things that led to the collapse.

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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

//Jeff Marsico remarks to the 2023 New Jersey Bankers' Association Annual Convention: May 19, 2023// Four decades ago, the prolonged savings-and-loan crisis devastated the industry. Between 1980 and 1995, more than 2,900 banks and thrifts with collective assets of more than $2.2 The old borrow short, lend long strategy.

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The Investments Keep On Coming And ‘Uber For Trucks’ Banks $10M Investment

PYMNTS

Because as it turns out, trucking goods in the Brazilian market is harder than it looks — and rather more difficult than it needs to be. If you show me a market with information asymmetry, I’m going to show you a $1 billion opportunity.”. They don’t have the tools to talk to each other,” Salazar said in an interview with TechCrunch.