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Fundation Pulls Community Bank Into FinTech Collaboration

PYMNTS

Large financial institutions (FIs) are increasingly turning to FinTech firms and alternative lenders to augment their small business (SMB) offerings, but community banks are beginning to get on board with the partnership strategy , too. They’re very disciplined on credit and interest rate risk,” he said.

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These Are Your Most Profitable Cash Management Clients

South State Correspondent

The value driver in cash management is that it is usually some sort of operating account at the bank. As such, operating accounts have low-interest rate sensitivity. Here, a tool like IBIS World comes in handy for setting bank strategy as you can look up any of the below industries to see their geographical dispersion.

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Gearing Up New Operations

Independent Banker

A Pennsylvania community bank’s perspective on the rewards and potential perils of developing a separate business line. Forming new business lines—if carefully planned and considered—can be a potentially significant way for a community bank to boost revenues and profits. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert.

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A Community Banker for the Ages

Jeff For Banks

On a recent Sunday, the headliner in the Business Section was about the retiring Bob Enck, a long time community banker in my hometown, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. Bobby Enck is a relic of an old time era in banking, when you started and finished your career at the community bank in the center of town.

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How Can Banks Thrive in the Next Five Years?

Jeff For Banks

Indeed, since the banking laws that were spawned from the Great Depression, banking has been stable, reliable, and boring. I know, my first job in banking in 1985 at Northeastern Bank of Pennsylvania was making microfiche. First Internet Bank in Indiana was founded in 1998. I'm bullish on community banking.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. We are in awe. Seriously in awe.

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CNB expanding western New York operations with Bank of Akron deal

American Banker

The Pennsylvania company will pay $65 million for six branches that will join its Buffalo, N.Y., division.