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Community Banks Debut FinTech Alliance

PYMNTS

Alloy’s Julieann Thurlow, CEO of Reading Cooperative Bank, said, “Community banks play a special role in the lives of our customers, but we don’t have the same IT and innovation budgets as the big banks to capitalize on that relationship.” Guidelines From The UK.

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Former Pennsylvania Secretary of Banking Lays Down Ideas on How to Lover Your Regulator

Jeff For Banks

Glenn Moyer, the former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities (pictured), spoke at a banking industry event this past week. His subject: How to love your regulator. Regulator relations is a pressure point in our industry. Never ask your regulator “What would you like me to do?

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Wells Fargo Taps Former Mastercard Exec To Run Merchant Services

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She graduated from Spelman College and earned her MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. The company revealed that David Kowach has been named head of community banking, while Jim Hays has come on board as president and head of Wells Fargo Advisors. Her first day will be Aug.

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Bank Regulators Close Third Institution of 2016

American Banker

Pennsylvania state regulators on Friday closed the $103.3 million-asset First CornerStone Bank in King of Prussia, the third institution to fail this year.

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Q&A Quick Take

Independent Banker

Pennsylvania community bank compliance officer, James E. Mastroianni, as vice president for Sweickley Savings Bank, leads much of the compliance efforts at the $330 million-asset community bank in Coraopolis, Pa. General Highlighting Regulation & Compliance' Compliance officer James E.

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As DOJ Probe Widens, Fulton Financial Overhauls Fair-Lending Efforts

American Banker

The Pennsylvania company has redoubled its outreach to low- and moderate-income consumers by partnering with Operation Hope on a down payment assistance program and naming a veteran banker to the newly created post of director of fair and responsible banking.

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Bankers: Seven Questions to Determine If You Have a Strategic CFO?

Jeff For Banks

For example, regulations in financial services impose new constraints on banks. J4B Take : The greatest uncertainty facing community banking is relevance. JFB Take: The market leader in mortgage origination in my home state of Pennsylvania is Quicken.

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