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Why a community bank in Missouri is investing in core banking startup Neocova

Bank Innovation

For Brice Luetkemeyer, president and CEO of Bank of St. Elizabeth, a Missouri-based community bank with $150 million in assets, investing in a core banking startup is critical for its future. Together with a group of other community banks, Bank of St.

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Smart Questions (and Some Answers) About Community Banking

American Banker

Does scale matter to a community bank? What does the disappearance of black-owned banks mean to the communities they served? What impact has regulation had on banking? Those questions were among the many addressed by researchers at the recent community banking conference in St.

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Small Banks Could See Some Dodd-Frank Relief

PYMNTS

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act was supposed to prevent another 2008 banking meltdown — and solve the problem of “too big to fail.” banks have disappeared. And those banks are going out of business — or merging with bigger players — largely due to the complexity and cost of compliance.

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The Smaller the Bank, the Harder the Reg Hit: Fed's Stackhouse

American Banker

Julie Stackhouse, head of supervision at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, discusses the insights that resonated at the regulator's recent community banking conference — some encouraging for the future of small financial institutions, others less so.

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Lessons Learned: Banks that thrived during crisis grew loans slower prior to it.

Jeff For Banks

Louis Fed recently performed a study to uncover the characteristics of community banks that thrived during the financial crisis. Thriving banks were defined as under $10 billion in assets, and maintained a composite CAMELS 1 rating in each exam cycle from 2006-11, an impressive accomplishment. Louis Fed'

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Is Your Contemplated Bank Merger Anti-Competitive?

Jeff For Banks

Yesterday at the ABA's virtual Conference for Community Bankers (CCB), Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman gave a speech, My Perspective on Bank Regulation and Supervision. Up-to-date geographic market definitions are available at the St. Louis' Fed CASSIDI database or from the relevant Reserve Bank.

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A 'Road Map' Around Rate Risks, Courtesy of the Chicago Fed Chief

American Banker

LOUIS – Risk management is critical as small banks aim to make money in a low-rate environment.