PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Community banks are voicing their frustration with what they say is a lack of competition in the market for corporate bank technology providers, reports in The Wall Street Journal said Thursday (April 11). Community banks say their services are often too expensive and can sometimes be delayed.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 21, 2022

Last week we wrote about loan-level vs. balance sheet hedging for community banks and provided our loan proposal generator ( HERE ). We compared and contrasted the two strategies and sized the market for community banks. A community bank may transact one or only a few balance sheet hedges over many years.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 16, 2024

We published various articles comparing community bank alternatives to LIBOR (such as SOFR, Ameribor, Fed Funds, and Prime). We believe that daily and term SOFR offer community banks the safest and most dependable index for benchmarking profitability, pricing loans, and hedging interest rate risk. No ISDA documents.

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Abrigo

JULY 16, 2021

Takeaway 2 Regulations haven't been written, but there are steps community financial institutions can take now to prepare. Currently, the accompanying regulations have not been written, so what should community financial institutions take away from these priorities now? Thoroughly analyze and document the residual risk of each.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

This Community Banking Month, I invite you to try something new to spread your story. Share a new development, community project or initiative. As community bankers, we know relationships matter. Consider Watermark Bank in Oklahoma City, Okla., It’s about taking that next step to communicate how we engage.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Community banks need to analyze the demographics and varied business segments to identify the growth potential of each market. Another key player for successful small business banks is the vice president of business lending, who manages the relationship managers and reports to the chief lending officer.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 10, 2023

CRE Risk Background While ten years ago, community and regional banks use to make up some 55% of the CRE market, in 2023, these banks now compose approximately 72% (below). The risk here is that community banks continue to take on an above-average amount of CRE credit exposure. Inspect the tangible assets.

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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. Community banks can now white label this same product to onboard and process employee retention tax credits for the bank’s small business customers AND prospects.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 31, 2023

Naming conventions One benefit of customer-centric KYC is that it differentiates community financial institutions from larger, more impersonal banks by allowing clients to retain their individuality and build personal relationships. For example, form letters often filter information from core systems, automatically assigning “Mrs./Mr./Miss”

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2024

The American Banker/Arizent survey found that nearly three-quarters (72%) of community banks (those below $10 billion in assets) and 54% of credit unions reported they either have no plans to use generative AI or are still learning and collecting information on the technology.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

However, many traditional community lenders will face real challenges meeting their lending goals for more business loans and higher yield, given expected interest rate hikes, higher non-interest expenses, and increasing competition for borrowers. It is the backbone of what many community financial institutions do, and they do it well.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

AI can help solve customer pain points—but does it mean community banks will lose the personal touch they pride themselves on? As community bankers themselves tell us, the answer is no. The estimated amount of money banks will save by using AI applications by 2023. billion-asset Sunwest Bank in Sandy, Utah.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

5), J.P.Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said banks that don’t adapt in how they deal with customers will go the way of the dinosaurs. Banks are good at creating pain points by making customers sign several forms and documents, Dimon told Sibos attendees. “We We are doing a much better job now at easier, faster and quicker transactions.

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Abrigo

JULY 28, 2021

Takeaway 3 Beginning CECL adoption earlier provides time needed for backtesting, documentation, and developing disclosures. Banks and credit unions also need to determine what data has been tested or historically reconciled to make sure that gaps and inconsistencies do not cause problems. CECL implementation and documentation, testing.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The core infrastructure technology will be implemented within the bank’s corporate, lending, treasury, retail, domestic, cross-border payments and other operations, according to reports. Commonwealth Trade Bank specializes in trade finance offerings, including letter of credit discounts, receivables finance and document collections.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Anticipating what’s new for your community bank’s next field examination. This is particularly true for community banks preparing to undergo their next regulatory safety and soundness or compliance examination. As Barr points out, most community banks—close to 75 percent—are now growing their loan portfolios.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Supreme Court, it is, and the high court’s recent ruling to that effect is likely to affect community banks, their regulatory examinations and their potential exposure to fair lending lawsuits. Furthermore, community banks still have the defense of “showing a business reason to justify their policies.”.

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Abrigo

APRIL 18, 2020

Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer Glenda Sorotski said Western States Bank’s customers used an online application for the PPP loans, enabling lenders to process more than they would have been able to if they had relied on paper-based applications and documentation. It’s something we look at as our duty.”

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

notes that some nonprofits facing tighter funding from federal and state governments are turning to community banks for commercial loans and lines of credit. Accounting and consulting firm The Whitlock Co. of Springfield, Mo.,

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 26, 2016

More community bank loan officers are using laptops and tablets to allow customers in the field to complete loan applications and obtain faster approvals. Commercial loan officers at Univest Bank and Trust Co. billion-asset community bank’s president of small-business banking. Dan Hickman, Riverhills Bank.

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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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Abrigo

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Ours, who is Senior Vice President and Director of Credit Administration of Summit and its 32-location bank subsidiary, Summit Community Bank Inc., Ours said that for Summit Community, which decided to use the cohort methodology, which is a loss migration approach, the choice came down to the availability of quality data. “We

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Abrigo

AUGUST 5, 2020

is officially in a recession, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Now, banks and credit unions must determine how to safely and effectively manage risk in the portfolio while also driving growth at their institution. The national effects remain opaque and will continue to change – do not get complacent.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 28, 2016

As in past years, community bankers will have a dynamic regulatory environment to contend with in 2016. Safety and soundness concerns will remain a prominent driver of that supervisory dynamic for community banks. What should community banks anticipate here? Anticipating safety and soundness exam issues in 2016.

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Abrigo

APRIL 8, 2020

O ne solution for financial institutions looking to offer a PPP loan to a new customer or member is for the prospective borrower to open a deposit account and submit all required onboarding documentation. Consumers and small businesses have long relied on community banks and credit unions and now is no different.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 9, 2018

regulatory agencies—the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Administration, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the U.S.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

From opposite political directions, Senators Shelby and Brown stand on point to greatly influence community banking’s agenda in the next Congress. The mix of contrasts and similarities of Shelby’s and Brown’s perspectives and policymaking portend an active session for community banking’s agenda in the new 114th Congress.

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Abrigo

JULY 30, 2015

What is the impact to the bank? In addition, institutions – especially community banks -- have operational concerns, McNairy added. “Do These steps include properly supporting and documenting each of the following: quantitative factors, qualitative factors and any unallocated reserves.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

While out-of-town lenders gave money to customers requiring no down payments to buy overpriced homes that they couldn’t afford, Hartings, the president and CEO of The Peoples Bank Co. in Coldwater, Ohio, and ICBA’s incoming chairman, held fast to his community bank’s conservative lending practices.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Even if you’re not required to use either version of the Cybersecurity Assessment, beta users say it can help your community bank gauge its cybersecurity risks and ultimately guard against cybercrime. At the Bank of Luxemburg, a $290 million-asset community bank in Luxemburg, Wis., Real-world testing. “I

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Even if you’re not required to use either version of the Cybersecurity Assessment, beta users say it can help your community bank gauge its cybersecurity risks and ultimately guard against cybercrime. At the Bank of Luxemburg, a $290 million-asset community bank in Luxemburg, Wis., Real-world testing. “I

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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 Lia webster, private bank of buckhead.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Arecent National Mortgage News article pointed out that “consumers complain when lenders ask for information, even suggesting such requests are a violation of their privacy.” So I wonder where the regulatory review hearings will be held to accommodate 6,419 community bankers and our country’s 326 million citizens. By Mitch Ashlock.

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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. who oversees 32 loan officers dedicated to providing the loans.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 3, 2019

The tone and tenor of the hearing became readily apparently during opening remarks offered by Representative Gregory Meeks, in which he analogized small dollar lenders to “no document” mortgage lenders that caused the 2008 financial crisis because of a failure to assess ability to repay. (Mr. Payday Loan Rule) with 12 C.F.R.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 30, 2016

Even with a 20-year track record in business and great personal credit scores, without that regular paycheck and W-2 documentation, it was maddeningly hard to get a new mortgage, refi, or even a car loan or credit card sometimes. Bottom line: One bank’s loss is often another’s gain.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It’s been a busy year integrating recent acquisitions, purchasing $1 billion+ in Banco Popular deposits, hiring former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to advise on community relations, and having former President Bill Clinton speak at a major financial literacy event. Bank Acquisition of the Year - BB&T Corp.

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