South State Correspondent

MARCH 21, 2023

The need for a known, reliable brand creates an excellent opportunity for community banks to help small business customers while building deposit balances. ERC gave eligible businesses a refundable tax credit of up to 50% of $10,000 for qualified wages paid per employee. In 2020, the U.S.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 21, 2024

Our lives changed forever from this whole experience of the government’s declaration of a national emergency, leading to forced shutdowns of businesses and schools, mandated mask wearing, forcing 6-foot distances between people, travel restrictions, fear mongering with case and death counts, and forced vaccines/boosters. Real GDP was +3.2%

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South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. He chose to compete in the women’s luxury segment and looked for a gap in the market. COI marketing for banks should always be a top priority.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The right talent and tools can equip bankers to take advantage of opportunities in the small business market. As bankers continue to fight the deposit wars, they must move past the polite talk and build a true go-to-market plan to capture the lucrative U.S. No two markets are created equal.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2020

Challenger bank Agora Services wants to address challenges with banking for small businesses with a new solution called Agora SMB, which will help them compete with bigger banks, a press release says. There will also be receipt managing sub-accounts for tax purposes, and other such perks.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 16, 2022

In a competitive market for commercial loans, every feature that can preserve credit quality or maintain pricing can be valuable to the lender. One element that many commercial banks attempt to differentiate with borrowers is the prepayment provision (or sometimes the lack of one). Prepayment Provisions Not Penalties.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

National Small Business Week is this week in the U.S., and finance experts are celebrating with new data on the state of the entrepreneurial community. But analysts from Bank of America, Square, Navcom and the National Association for the Self-Employed warn that challenges for some SMBs have reached new heights, too.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The markets are taking it all in stride, rallying strongly for most of this week and they seem more grateful for the prospect of a divided Congress, i.e, The markets believe the chance of tax hikes, repeals of tax cuts, and gigantic initiatives are greatly diminished. The national unemployment rate peaked at 14.7%

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South State Correspondent

JULY 5, 2022

In a stagflation environment, as interest rates rise and cash flow (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), or net operating income (NOI)) decreases, the borrower’s capacity to service debt as measured by the debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) decreases rapidly. in December 2021).

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 22, 2018

Now, if Mother Nature would cooperate… Volatility The markets have been incredibly volatile in the first quarter of 2018. The spike in volatility was a wake-up call to every investor and market participant that thought “vols” would stay historically low forever. This may be the understatement of the year! Welcome to 2018!

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 12, 2018

This is because the economy has been gaining momentum, however modest, from the tax cuts and deregulation. As well as the economy has been doing from the momentum of tax cuts and reduced regulation, there are always looming issues. We have to live with national interest rates and the Fed and the yield curve affect us all.

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Abrigo

JULY 15, 2015

The transition from compliance to consulting makes sense: tax season is just that, a “season,” and nearly 60 percent of respondents to a Sageworks survey indicated they saw an increase in total revenue by adding financial services to their accounting practice. The advantage of working capital is obvious to some degree.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Greg Steverson (left) successfully manages a $100 million institutional investment portfolio for Ledyard National Bank in Norwich, Vt. Mikella Newsom (middle) successfully manages a $325 million institutional investment portfolio for City Bank in Lubbock, Texas. Investment principles of top bank portfolio managers.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 15, 2023

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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South State Correspondent

JUNE 13, 2022

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. In this article, we explore why and how banks are starting to incorporate the “velocity of risk” into their risk management practices. Consider the risk above.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 31, 2023

Likely, it might be a combination of the above, but setting a branching strategy should dictate capital allocation, branch layout, marketing, and staffing. Banks should have a clear and stated set of measurable objectives for their branches and then allocate capital accordingly. Our point here is branching isn’t a passive activity.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 25, 2022

We have poured through the recent 2Q earnings releases, spoken with a rash of institutional bank investors, traded thoughts with analysts, and compiled the following list of concerns that bank stakeholders (employees, shareholders, vendors, and regulators) now have. The Single Change in Messaging To Improve Your Bank Multiple.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 11, 2018

Won by the national banks. With all of our hubris about how great community banking is compared to national banks, we are not winning market share from them. Such as having a real estate taxes savings account. At lunch recently, he said that the battle for retail deposits has already been won.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 27, 2015

Community National Bank & Trust of Texas. We have a very successful junior college, school district and hospital—the typical things that you would expect to see in a community. Leskoven: The big banks have really abandoned smaller communities for trust and investment services. Photo by Aggie Brooks.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Community banks, which will continue to face a growing number of senior customers with everyday cash needs and built-up home equity, should explore this niche lending opportunity, two community bankers providing these specialty loans suggest. By Howard Schneider. who oversees 32 loan officers dedicated to providing the loans.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 20, 2017

Reading between the lines, this bank is likely over the CRE guidance levels, and were probably getting grief from their regulators about it. They need a marketing person to title their reports. The Great Recession lasted from the fourth quarter 2007 through the second quarter 2009, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), two lawmakers tapped to lead the Senate Banking Committee for their respective parties, are both independent-minded senators who hold positive views on several priority community banking issues. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) So I would say he’s open to things we are concerned about.”.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Although all banks faced stock headwinds in 2018, we give the nod to William Demchak at PNC Financial Services. PNC made a Gonzo move with a national digital expansion in 2018 with the unique idea of building a small number of branches in target metro markets like Kansas City and Dallas. Bank Sale of the Year.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

It was a prescient move for Hartings and the $450 million-asset community bank, which comfortably weathered the downturn even though residential mortgages are its biggest business line—but not everyone appreciated Hartings’ common-sense approach at the time. Hartings and The Peoples Bank Co. Jack got us through that just fine.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2017

My method was to search for the best banks based on total return to shareholders over the past five years. I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. GonzoBanker of the Year – Large Banks. 16 passing of Robert Wilmers, chairman and chief executive officer of M&T Bank Corp. Oh, by the way, that Fintech darling of two years ago Lending Club?

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Bank Merger of the Year. Some interesting finalists would be: M&T and People’s United Old National and First Midwest Webster and Sterling Columbia Bank and Umpqua. Huntington and TCF merge to create the $170 billion Midwest dynamo and vault them into one of the top 10 banks in the country. The Bank That Gets Fintech.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 27, 2015

The Credit Union National Association (CUNA), the credit union equivalent to the American Bankers'' Association (ABA), states that credit unions exist to serve members, returning earnings to members in the form of lower loan rates, higher interest on deposits, and lower fees. And the taxes. Clearly this remains an emotional issue.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 26, 2015

She’s chief operating officer and vice president of the mortgage company, a division of Private Bank of Buckhead, in Atlanta. The bank’s mortgage company has developed a national retail lending presence over the last 18 months using phones and email, rather than branch offices. “We Legal aspects. Fewer errors.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

Avalara will detail the Weird and Wacky World of Sales Tax. Did you know that sales-tax in the U.S. There are over 12,000 taxing jurisdictions covering millions of taxability rule combinations. Fidor Bank introduced community banking five years ago. is handled unlike any other place on the planet?

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