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A digital-first bank for south Florida

Independent Banker

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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Spotlight on lending: Commercial loan growth geographically

Abrigo

A recent data report culled from Sageworks Bank Information , a web-based data platform that includes financial and regulatory information on every U.S. bank and credit union, named the “ Top 15 community banks by commercial loan growth.” Blog Bank' From that subset of all U.S.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions For Any Sized Bank That You Must Get Right in 2023

South State Correspondent

Popular projects for 2023 include online loan and deposit onboarding utilizing third-party data to speed the process, compliance-as-a-service, payments, card controls, service case management, leveraging data for customer insights, and providing open banking APIs to customers. of the banking market, according to Statista Research.

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Nurturing New Businesses

Independent Banker

Of course, community banks are the primary economic engines behind small businesses on Main Street America, funding more than 60 percent of all small-business lending. When you’re looking at key issues in the community, bring entrepreneurs to the table and ask them to solve it—because that’s who solves things,” Williamson insists.

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FI Highlight: TotalBank

NCR

Headquartered in Miami, TotalBank is a leading, full-service community bank offering personal and business banking, lending, and wealth management services. TotalBank has proudly served the Miami community for more than 40 years. First off, can you tell us a bit about TotalBank?

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

Last year, community bank loan producers were faced with both record-low interest rates and a glut of deposits. But as they always do, they came through for individuals and businesses in their communities with a combination of personalized service and prudent risk management practices. American Bank, National Association.

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Innovation on Display: The 2017 Ford GT and FIS Connect 2017

Celent Banking

Ecoboost engine, FIS's long-term goal is to create build-once, deploy-everywhere core banking components that can be configured in various ways to support the need of a small community bank, boutique wealth manager, or a high-scale retail bank. As Ford has shown with its 3.5L