Independent Banker

MAY 31, 2020

That approach doesn’t line up at all with the reality of true leadership. I’ll be continuing to connect with community bankers nationwide and champion their leadership via digital channels. They are strengthening the nature of community banking by bettering themselves, their teams and their organizations.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Fallout from recent global events presents an obstacle to generating revenue for community banks. Since COVID-19, profitability planning for community banks has mainly hinged on how the government was coping with the pandemic and the key role financial institutions played in keeping the economy afloat. By Elizabeth Judd.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2023

Digital media gives community bankers a platform for advocacy, and ICBA’s Virtual Advocacy Primer details how you can put it to work. How can a community banker best connect with a member of Congress? Are you trying to raise awareness about a certain policy or bill affecting community banks? What’s your end goal?

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet. THE BANKER AWARDS The Bank Acquisition of the Year – goes to the unique PacWest and Banc of California deal. Employees are back to work. We are in awe.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2018

“We look forward to serving you and your community bank in the year ahead.”. Happy New Year, community bankers! And if you haven’t done so already, I encourage you to also come up with a community banking resolution—one that helps you flourish as a professional. Where I’ll be this month. now is the time.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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. The digital world has opened vastly broader avenues for community banks to attract new customers—especially if they partner with fintechs in their endeavors.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

All of you with your hands up… … uh huh. It would have required a few trips to the local dispensary to dream up what bankers have endured this year. 1 issue raised by CEOs in our surveys, bankers had to craft a new and compelling post-Covid value proposition to attract it. OK, show of hands. Pull ’em down. Nobody did.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 31, 2023

The concept that we allow the customer to choose how they want to bank often enables the bank to be passive in its position and give up agency. Branching, for example, is too expensive to be all things to all people. That said, branch profitability has come roaring back, given the value of deposits. This fact, however, is rapidly changing.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 18, 2022

Ask almost any community banker, and they will tell you their value proposition around their bank revolves around service. They are local, they are close to the customer, and they have limited bureaucracy are all factors that get brought up as to why the bank can deliver on its promise. Why Customer Problem Resolution Matters.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Takeaway 3 Signing up for 2022 conferences is another smart use of surplus budget funds, because some events are offering early-bird discounts. Indeed, deposit levels to transaction accounts among community banks exploded 74% to $896.5 Beef up your loan pricing strategy. Options for Excess Funds. billion from $515.3

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 10, 2019

With no signs of dissipating, it is just a matter of time before an incident happens in your customer base, if it has not happened already. NCOA estimates the cost of elder financial abuse to older Americans up to $36.5 NCOA estimates the cost of elder financial abuse to older Americans up to $36.5 billion annually.

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Abrigo

JUNE 13, 2022

The NCOA estimates the cost of elder financial abuse to older Americans to be up to $36.5 billion annually. A recent American Bankers Association Foundation (ABA) research study found that older Americans hold 65% of the deposited wealth in the United States. Would you like other articles on BSA/AML training in your inbox?

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Bankers started the year with good business plans, strong balance sheets, and optimism. And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Our clients showed banking at its best – obsessed with customer well-being, good corporate citizenship, and strong community focus. ” – Hunter Thompson.

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Social Assurance

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Is it employees volunteering at a local event? Whatever it is, community heroes are constantly leaving their mark. From supporting small businesses to uplifting employees, here’s how Community Heroes Empower, Ignite, and Enable their communities: Empower. Community heroes empower local businesses. “

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 26, 2016

FASB awoke wide-eyed and astonished to the liberating truth that community banks played no role in either triggering or participating in the Wall Street financial crisis. A few memories are apparently fuzzy over that indelibly cataclysmic event. Imagine that? Where were they for the past eight years? 4, after this column went to press.

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Independent Banker

JULY 30, 2015

Leading a team of marketing and communications experts, he is an outside-the-box thinker who believes strongly in the mission of the organization and the importance of community banks. Our members are thought leaders and visionaries who are the backbone of every community,” he says. “Our Community Banking Month.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2014

I learn a lot from bankers and industry experts as I visit their offices, speak to them on the phone or at industry events. Since I estimate my Twitter community only reads about 10% of their tweet stream, and so many of my blog readers do not follow Twitter, below are selected quotes that I tweeted since version 6.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

And the great news, according to “American Millennials and Banking,” a major new study commissioned by ICBA, is that Bauhs and the 80 million other people in his generational cohort are prime potential customers for community banks. This is really the moment for community banks to show that they’re a fit for millennials. “At

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Awareness of elder financial abuse is growing, and community bankers are often relied upon as the front line of defense in the protection of their customers, including as providers of crime prevention education and information. In fact, they’re every bit as much at risk.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

And the great news, according to “American Millennials and Banking,” a major new study commissioned by ICBA, is that Bauhs and the 80 million other people in his generational cohort are prime potential customers for community banks. This is really the moment for community banks to show that they’re a fit for millennials. “At

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Banking 2020

MARCH 10, 2015

Daily, I have been reminded by the government, that the signs of economic recovery are all around me. The signs of change are around us, but it’s more likely that the US economy is rearranging itself rather than simply recovering under the old umbrella of Wall Street. My answer, combine the best of both worlds.

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

A generation ago, bankers could count on young people –piggy banks in hand — riding their parents’ coattails to the neighborhood branch. But how do we attract a generation that communicates phone-to-phone and text to text, not face to face? In a few years, that meant a mortgage, a college fund for their children, or an IRA.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Barbara was even more direct (and, by far, the most impactful speaker of the event). Tripodi told bankers to look for the functional, emotional and societal benefits of our brands and to tell better stories to broaden appeal. The societal benefit of financing our communities has to beat sugar water, right?

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

And, man, did it ever … with the Aliens -esque signs of bankers getting their brains sucked out (or was it minds being blown by presenters, not sure?). Vaynerchuk delivered our second favorite Gonzo quote of the event (keep reading for the first favorite), “The adage ‘We’re regulated’ is a scapegoat from doing cool s**t.”

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company. GonzoBanker of the Year – Large Banks.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Here is a recap of the flurry of activity at this year’s event. The Garb: Despite the exhortations in the conference guide that attendees should be in resort casual, it never ceases to amaze me that bankers still take themselves so seriously. Well, my partner Steve Williams and I finally broke down and attended. Dinner on your own.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 26, 2016

Of course, community banks are the primary economic engines behind small businesses on Main Street America, funding more than 60 percent of all small-business lending. Of course, community banks are the primary economic engines behind small businesses on Main Street America, funding more than 60 percent of all small-business lending.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The latest twists came in September, when one of the biggest technology and payments events of the year featured the announcement of Apple Inc.’s Tying community bank relationships with mobile banking is like peanut butter and jelly—it adds lots of stickiness and feeds the relationship.”. —Ed Ed Bachelder, payments consultant.

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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. Nice community bank culture fit between the two as well.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Sure, we bought some December options on west Texas crude at $100 a barrel, but it was only with a third of the 401(k)—plenty of time to make that up, right? It’s hard for any banker to avoid gulping at the sheer long-term performance of George Gleason II and his team at the Bank of the Ozarks. ” – Tom Armstrong. That’s two.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

After the collapse of Lehman and Bear Stearns and the global financial crisis that ensued, the business models of the world’s biggest investment banks needed to change. In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 18, 2015

It’s almost as fun do re-live the conference through post-event press coverage and Twitter highlights. American Banker. Community FIs Out-Innovating Big Banks: Onsite Coverage. Sizing Up Small Business Lending: Onsite Coverage. Moven and Accenture team up to sell digital tools to banks. by Jacob Passy.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

As September is gearing up to go into its last week, the waning warm days of the summer season certainly went out with a bang — care of the largest data breach ever recorded. It’s also a pick-up for Lyft, which can now compete with Uber, which launched its own Instant Pay service with Go Bank earlier this year. Stripe’s Instant Pay.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Long-time Free-Space Optics (FSO) player AOptix has shut up shop and is selling off its assets at auction next week… the company is currently trying to shop around its intellectual property. For those who’ve been reading, we’ve had failure on the brain recently. Some of the fail-related research we’ve issued includes: The Downround Tracker.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

While they are working towards a resolution, it leaves bankers in a cloud of smoke. While there is still uncertainty about what banking legislation will pass, FIs are slowly but surely gaining more guidance on how to bank cannabis. Compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) is going green… or is it? If so, how do you bank them?

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