South State Correspondent

MARCH 30, 2022

Community banks pride themselves on superior customer service. Approximately 90% of all community banks believe that they provide an above-average level of customer service (of course, the math cannot work that way, as half of all banks should be providing a below-average level of customer service).

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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. Community banks need to analyze the demographics and varied business segments to identify the growth potential of each market. community banks have automated their commercial loan origination systems.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Under Larry Wilson’s leadership, First Arkansas Bank and Trust’s branch on the Little Rock Air Force Base was named the 2020 Air Force Bank of the Year. Community banks operate on a majority of the country’s military installations. Community banks comprise more than two-thirds of the 66 banks operating on U.S.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This isn’t any idle talk among Fed watchers and other pundits this time around, nor is it peripheral to the management of financial institutions, including community banks. When the Fed determines it’s time to begin raising rates, the most visible tool at its disposal is to increase the effective fed funds rate.

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Abrigo

MAY 30, 2017

One of the biggest obstacles for many community banks and credit unions with aggressive growth goals is staffing. However, growing the staff can be a real challenges for many banks and credit unions. Moreover, many community banks and credit unions are located in more rural areas.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

“I’m not sure how we would have processed all of the PPP loans and everything else in the last 18 months without some of the technology that we have implemented,” says Chris Jundt, senior vice president and chief lending officer at First State Bank & Trust. Northpointe Bank in Grand Rapids, Mich., Cashing in on efficiencies.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

At Bank Director's Acquire or Be Acquired conference , I had a sidebar conversation with a longtime friend and banking industry investment banker about ChatGPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer. Overall, I believe AI will evolve into a tool to weigh against our opinions.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Maybe the payer needs a breakout of taxes, or perhaps the payee was only able to ship a partial order. Since the payment channel was invented in the age of data and machine learning, the channel has one of the best sets of fraud and risk tools available. This doesn’t happen now in any other channel. However, we are not the only choice.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Technological innovation has enabled FinTech start-ups to compete in a field previously dominated by banks and credit unions. At the same time, early adopters of new technologies, like mega banks, are edging out community banks and credit unions in the fight for customers and creating a rapidly consolidating industry.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 31, 2019

article , former Small Business Administration administrator Karen Mills said community banks with strong small business customer bases that don’t find new ways to serve them digitally are going to face a “reckoning.” Institutions are “spreading” financial statements for electronically provided tax returns or financial statements.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Job seekers are in the driver’s seat across most industries, including community banking,” says Lindsay LaNore, group executive vice president and chief learning and experience officer for ICBA. However, community banks have a big opportunity to stand out from the crowd of potential employers.”. Put people first.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

The IRS is hiring and training more than 3,000 agents to enforce its Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), and the onus is now on the payer to collect all necessary tax documents from the payee and validate the info on those forms. That’s what he said the startup aimed to create in its mobile tool for corporate deposits.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

The IRS is hiring and training more than 3,000 agents to enforce its Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), and the onus is now on the payer to collect all necessary tax documents from the payee and validate the info on those forms. That’s what he said the startup aimed to create in its mobile tool for corporate deposits.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2017

Meanwhile, using a tool like the Sageworks Electronic Tax Return Reader makes it easier and faster for financial institutions to complete underwriting, review and stress testing by importing business information, financials and real estate data directly from borrowers’ electronically produced tax returns.

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Independent Banker

JULY 29, 2016

Around the Table—Wisconsin community bankers work with legislative staff members on Capitol Hill during ICBA’s Washington Policy Summit. Keeping community banking interests front and center. 812) and the Community Bank Access to Capital Act (H.R. By Courtney Schoenborn. 1233 and S. 1523 and S.

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 24, 2021

Some examples: My colleague Ron Shevlin pointed out in a recent study conducted with StrategyCorps that Chime, the big dog challenger bank, now has nearly 8 million customers who consider it their primary bank. Community banks and credit unions, in total, have 56 million.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Nothing seems to put a bounce in a banker’s step more than a tax break and regulatory relief, and this bountiful energy was radiating at Bank Director’s annual “mecca” for bank M&A in Phoenix last week – Acquire or be Acquired. For those in the know – simply AOBA. 3: Business Model.

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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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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

As a consequence, supply-siders, like your bank’s brokers, tend to avoid using them during a sales pitch. It’s ironic, therefore, that one of those terms should actually be embraced by community bank investment managers, and should be used to begin the discussion of what’s suitable for their bank’s portfolio. They are 1.)

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

This crisis hatched the more sophisticated ALCO tools we have today. When the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 passed, the top capital gains tax rate was lowered, providing yet another incentive for equity speculators to pour money into the fledgling internet industry. My lesson learned to the regulators, read your past lessons learned.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Although the customer journey mapping discipline is a great tool and something Cornerstone leverages, we can’t help but think that the most productive journey this year was Steve Perry’s return to high-pitched vocal finally belting on a new album. Bank Purchase of the Year. CVB Financial acquires Community Bank.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In the chart below, derived from The Kafafian Group’s (TKG) peer database of hundreds of community bank branches, we see that the revenue generated from deposit spreads, asset spreads (typically consumer loans), and fees (typically deposit fees) as a percent of branch deposits averaged 2.08% for commercial banks and 1.88% for thrifts during 2014.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 31, 2023

Seven: Proximity Marketing The convenience of location remains one of the top factors that customers use when choosing a bank. Through modern data tools, banks can now map their competitors’ customers closer to their bank’s branch than their competitors (below).

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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. Large Community Bank Council, member. Membership-Marketing.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 26, 2015

Webster says 75 percent of Private Bank’s borrowers select the electronic signature option after its loan officers explain the process to them. “We Community banks and their customers don’t need to be concerned about the legality of digitally signed documents. Legal aspects.

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Banking 2020

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Out on the campaign trail, Sen Bernie Sanders (D-VT), has fired up support with calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, raising the minimum wage, and breaking up Wall Street conglomerates. With all due respect to tradition, our business is on the cutting edge, which includes a steady stream of new tools and technologies.

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Social Assurance

JANUARY 27, 2020

I often ask college students who visit our office where they bank. Frequently, I will have one mention a community bank or credit union and another mentioned a large bank. It may mean charting integrations to make it easier to connect to services like tax planning or mobile wallets.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 22, 2010

In that book, the authors cited FirstMerit Bank as an example of a financial institution that implements Nordstrom-like tenets throughout their company. This got me thinking of how community banks could create an objective incentive system for branch personnel to culminate in the awarding of “Best Branch”.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Goes to Eric Sprink, Coastal Community Bank , Everett, Wash. Eric has always been a student of innovation, and now at Coastal, this fearless leader has spearheaded a number of high-profile banking-as-a-service partnerships. Goes to the growing cacophony of low-code and no-code software promises in the bank tech market.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 1, 2016

Bankjoy offers developers a banking API for a modern, real-time, holistic interface for credit unions and community banks. Experian CrossCore is a single platform that helps manage customer identities, fraud prevention tools, workflows and decision strategies in an easy-to-use and scalable format.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

Developers can tap into its APIs to build a new Robo-Advisor, develop investment proposal tools for financial advisors, create financial planning and portfolio construction applications, and more. Avalara will detail the Weird and Wacky World of Sales Tax. Did you know that sales-tax in the U.S.

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