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. Those conversations, he says, centered around whether community banks could compete against this brash group of newcomers. Photo by Pogonici/iStock. Quick Stat.
Independent Banker
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
.; Bank of Montana, Missoula, Mont.; 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. What great resignation?
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South State Correspondent
MARCH 13, 2023
While we will cover the general lessons HERE , in this article, we wanted to focus on the root cause – how and why interest rate risk caused the second-largest bank failure in US history (Washington Mutual was the largest in 2008). Notably, most community banks’ duration risk is in the loan portfolio.
PYMNTS
MARCH 12, 2019
Innovation has always been important for community banks, but the driving force of digitization over the last decade has greatly sped up the pace, said Kevin Tweddle, chief innovation officer for the Independent Community Bankers of America ( ICBA ). Community banking is no exception. Leveling the Playing Field.
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?
Jeff For Banks
JANUARY 14, 2021
In June of 2008 I gave a speech titled "The Death of the Community Bank" and in that speech I made predictions. Prediction: The General Bank will become extinct. The anecdote I used was how the Stephen's Island Wren was rendered extinct by a lightkeeper's house cat. Much like competitors nip at community banks' customers.
Independent Banker
MARCH 31, 2022
A secure, open-loop, cost-saving, customer-accessible, multiplatform P2P payments network might sound too good to be true, but community bank consortium Alloy Labs Alliance hopes to achieve just that with the CHUCK payment rail. Julieann Thurlow, CEO of $730 million-asset Reading Cooperative Bank in Reading, Mass.,
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