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How CFIs Can Remain Relationship-Focused in a Digital World

Abrigo

Key Takeaways With more customers leveraging channels like online and mobile banking, community financial institutions are trying to solve how to maintain their hallmark community focus in an increasingly digital world. A relationship-based, community focus in a digital world. learn more.

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How CFIs Can Remain Relationship-Focused in a Digital World

Abrigo

Key Takeaways With more customers leveraging channels like online and mobile banking, community financial institutions are trying to solve how to maintain their hallmark community focus in an increasingly digital world. A relationship-based, community focus in a digital world. learn more.

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Your next accounting client wants paperless, mobile services

Abrigo

Millennial business owners (which for this survey included owners younger than 39) overwhelmingly preferred paper-free accounting, at 78 percent. This makes sense, given the benefits of being able to access important financial information when you need it and the ease of searching and sharing documents online, the survey sponsor said.

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What the Coronavirus Has Taught Us About Banking Relationships

Abrigo

One of the key values community financial institutions have always leaned into is their relationships with their customers, but these relationships have been put to the test amid the coronavirus pandemic. Gone are the days where a borrower could simply walk into a branch to request the loan, bring in their paperwork, and sign documents.

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The role and challenges of financial institutions in the small multifamily rental market

Abrigo

The topic of affordable rental housing is likely to be an increasingly popular one in the coming years, given the number of baby boomers expected to downsize as they retire and the rising share of millennials choosing rentals over homeownership. Stiel in a section describing underwriting challenges.

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6 realities for banks about lending to small businesses

Abrigo

You typically play document ping pong for days/weeks, potentially pulling in your accountant, to ensure the institution has all the documents required. There is no document ping pong, and you submit everything online securely. • Community banks worry they are in a lose-lose situation. Everything is so slow-moving.

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PSCU CEO: Debit Still Wins With The Resilient Consumer

PYMNTS

That's what the millennial and younger consumer prefer to use.”. Beyond individual consumers, CUs are also eyeing the financial needs of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), which have been hard-hit by the pandemic, as documented in a series of PYMNTS reports on Main Street. I think debit ultimately wins out,” Fagan continued.

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