Perficient

AUGUST 9, 2022

The financial services industry must consider its customer experience game while also grappling with a sense of distrust from many communities due to systematic barriers, maintaining utmost accessibility due to the essentiality of the business, and the lack of financial literacy across the country. Trust and Transparency. .

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 5, 2023

Community bank cost of funds is jumping up. As shown in the graph below, the net interest margin (NIM) for community banks declined 22bps in Q1’23. The question is – what will happen to community bank’s cost of funds from here? The graph below shows community bank cost of funds compared to those banks over $25B.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Last week, the American Banking Association (ABA) held its annual Bank Marketing Conference in Denver, receiving rave reviews. The theme was – developing your marketing superpowers. Amid the brewery networking, superhero costumes, and fun, some fantastic bank marketing lessons were had, and not just for bank marketers.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Preparing for 2023 While community banks have until 2023 until they must comply with CECL, there is likely less time than expected. . Takeaway 2 CFIs getting started with CECL should consider possible partnerships and assess their data. CECL is all about the data that you have available and the way that you use that data.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2021

How can community financial institutions thrive in 2021? Community banks provide unique and important banking services for their customers, but they also face significant obstacles. Takeaway 1 Community banks play an important role in the economy and their communities, but they face significant obstacles.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 31, 2023

In this article, we look at cell phone tracking data for about 1,000 branches across the industry to derive insights to help banks increase branch engagement and boost branch profitability. If you want to make your branch marketing almost twice as effective, use your marketing dollars to highlight the people in the branch.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 15, 2024

We believe that while lending diversification leads banks to lend more in normal times (especially for banks over $50B in assets) and does benefit the general economy, community banks should be careful in how and where they choose to diversify. Community banks are already diversified within their geography and loan categories.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 15, 2024

We believe that while lending diversification leads banks to lend more in normal times (especially for banks over $50B in assets) and does benefit the general economy, community banks should be careful in how and where they choose to diversify. Community banks are already diversified within their geography and loan categories.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Many hotels and other hospitality businesses haven’t fully bounced back from COVID-19 travel and safety restrictions, but community banks have been by their side through the challenges. For other borrowers, the $596 million-asset community bank allowed deferrals of principal or, in some cases, full payment deferrals. Photo: R.J.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Photo by Courtney K/iStock By Charles Potts, ICBA If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: In today’s landscape, data reigns supreme. Working hand in hand with digital transformation, data provides a powerful tool for community banks. Data analysis and performance marketing do not have to be in-house skillsets.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 4, 2023

If you want to grab a material amount of new deposit balance, offer a 5.05% money market rate, post it all over Instagram, and sit back and watch the money roll in. In this article, we will show you 15 proven deposit marketing campaigns that will rack up deposit-gathering wins while building a high-performing bank in the process.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 15, 2024

We feel that as community bankers, we can learn from Jamie Dimon (Chairman and CEO of JPM) and from Warren Buffet’s annual shareholder letters. As usual, it was full of insight that every community banker should consider. Our focus is on information that pertains to the community banking industry.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 11, 2022

Email is one of the most effective bank marketing channels available. Other banks, like ourselves previously, pour over countless amounts of data to optimize open rates, clicks, and conversions. Using AI for bank email marketing can get you a 2% to 13%+ lift, or improvement, depending on the technique. The T-Shirt Problem.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 8, 2022

This article looks at five ways to use customer lifetime value data to make an immediate difference in bank performance. While getting a good data set is different for different industries, for banking, the minimum requirement is to pull transaction data for about 5,000 customers over the course of at least two years.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Innovation has always been important for community banks, but the driving force of digitization over the last decade has greatly sped up the pace, said Kevin Tweddle, chief innovation officer for the Independent Community Bankers of America ( ICBA ). Community banking is no exception. Leveling the Playing Field.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Community Financial Services Bank, Benton, Ky.; In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. Clockwise from top left: Grand Ridge National Bank, Wheaton, Ill.; Bank of Montana, Missoula, Mont.;

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South State Correspondent

JULY 6, 2022

While most banks hold community cocktail parties, lunch receptions, and host chamber of commerce events, one of the most underutilized events is for banks to attend statewide industry-specific functions. For the enterprising community bank, they will essentially find themselves being one of the few banks there. Putting It Into Action.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

With consumer expectations seeming to evolve faster every year, community banks could consider partnering with a fintech to keep up with technological innovation. Swashbuckling, nimble, well-funded and unapologetically entrepreneurial, fintechs are offering innovations that allow community bankers to dream big in a host of ways.

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Perficient

JULY 31, 2020

First of all, big kudos to first responders such as doctors, nurses, police, front-end-shop staff, and mental health workers for keeping your communities running during these troubling times. One of the things that the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us is the value of data. Our world in Data (.gov). Let me explain!

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Philadelphia.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

But there are ways community banks can help mortgage-seekers get on the property ladder. According to the 2022 Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends Report published by the NAR, there are some clear generational trends in the homebuying market. trillion, according to the Education Data Initiative. By Beth Mattson-Teig.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Kathy Strasser of IncredibleBank is evaluating marketing campaign management platforms. We asked several banking leaders how they’ve employed fintech to ramp up their marketing campaigns, hone their analytic strategies and gain new patrons in the process. Fintechs know how to reach and work with the community.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

This year’s winners: Left: Central Valley Community Bank, People’s Choice Award; Middle: Kennebec Savings Bank, Exceptional Community Bank Service Award; Right: Cross River Bank, Emerging Service Program Award. Exceptional Community Bank Service Award. Instead, we give those dollars to the community.”. Asset size: $1.36

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But as the prevalence of security breaches grows, so do the opportunities for community banks to position themselves as guardians of their customers’ personal data through compliance, technology and relationship building. Data privacy and security is a hot topic and is only getting hotter. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert. Bob Hickok.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Building trust in your institution has a lot to do with technology, from implementing strong data security practices to humanizing your online customer interactions. But for most community banks, building a trustworthy brand isn’t a conscious effort. But for most community banks, building a trustworthy brand isn’t a conscious effort.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 1, 2016

Edwards Deming and Austrian management consultant Peter Drucker, has seen significant play as data management has increasingly become more important to professionals in all industries. Data may serve as a buzzword for marketers, but it doesn’t make it any less important. Know the customer.

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Perficient

JANUARY 29, 2021

Oracle Cloud ERP Financials – TCA – Suppliers and Customers – Data conversion. You’ve been tagged as one of the resources to lead or assist with data conversions. Very important and difficult data conversion is Suppliers and Customers. TCA stands for Trading Community Architecture. What is TCA?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

We’re not a data company. Metrick also outlined a 3-point “Luxury Disrupted” strategy which consisted of edicts such as don’t forget the fashion, make it easy for customers and the need to use data to improve both online and in-store shopping experiences. We’re not an internet company. We’re a fashion company,”.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 19, 2022

What ensued was an out-of-the-box brand affinity marketing tactic that banks can use to promote their brand today. Creating a Brand Affinity Marketing Solution. The bank marketing lesson – figure out the persona of your customer base, who can influence them, and how to activate them. The public laughed.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

Community banks are pushing for a stronger role with their small business (SMB) customers. However, through an embrace of FinTech collaboration and industry consolidation, community banks appear poised to further dispel assumptions of a lack of digitization. has dropped from 8,000 in 2004 to about 5,400 in 2018. Strengthening SMB Ties.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

A secure, open-loop, cost-saving, customer-accessible, multiplatform P2P payments network might sound too good to be true, but community bank consortium Alloy Labs Alliance hopes to achieve just that with the CHUCK payment rail. A different kind of peer-to-peer payment service is now available, “built by community banks for community banks.”.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Photo by Radachynskyi/Adobe Using ICBA’s Marketing Communications Toolkit, your community bank can tell its story with intention and precision. For the banking industry, marketing can be finicky. It offers professional tips that will help fine-tune your approach and set your marketing strategy up for success.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Reports in The Washington Post this week profiled Severn Savings Bank, a community bank in the state that is said to be providing services to legal marijuana businesses. As more financial institutions (FIs) warm up to the idea, one bank in Maryland is taking significant steps to address cannabis companies’ FinServ challenges.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Measuring the success of your community bank’s campaigns can lead to greater ROI, increased conversion rates and a game plan for future initiatives. From mailers and e-newsletters to social media posts and events, there are countless ways to spread the word about your community bank and its offerings. By Taylor Hugo.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

Despite being less than halfway through, it seems clear at this point that the second week of March will make the list for wildest weeks in the market this year, or even possibly this decade. This, according to some reports , has caused some system-wide refocusing, as marketing and advertising budgets are shrinking drastically.

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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

One of the lessons that was driven home at the recent American Banker Small Business Banking Conference in Nashville was the difference in marketing between large national banks and community banks, particularly deposit marketing. The data would indicate not marketing to a new customer is a mistake.

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Perficient

MARCH 23, 2021

The data in this study was pulled from Google Analytics’ Benchmarking feature , which provides aggregated industry data from companies who share their data. Tablet data is also included. We’ve broken it down into market segments, in both U.S. data views. and globally. We also include tablet usage stats.

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