Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

Executive committee members tell us what advocacy issues they’ll be focused on during their terms, while board members share their words of wisdom for up-and-coming community bankers: themselves. To sum it up, these leaders are all in and all heart for community banking. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Thankfully, there was still a smartphone and social media to commiserate. Lending Tech With Almost Steady Grades (Even With Rough Semesters). Then, bad grades came in right as summer party season kicked off, mom and dad took away the car and credit card, and the Venmo transfers came to a screeching halt.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2019

PayPal Hits $10B SMB Lending Milestone. More of today’s consumers are looking to the car as a smart guide to parking or safe driving, as a way to interact with social media and, most importantly, as a way to shop. How Contactless Payments Could Beat Summer Event Heat. Fun, Cool or Otherwise Interesting.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 23, 2022

Nubank started with a credit card offering, followed by deposit accounts, then lending, and then payments, investing, and insurance. Xpeers are customer support help reachable by phone, chat, social media, or email. They take the bank and focus on underserved communities by overserving them.

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Bussman Advisory

AUGUST 24, 2023

Join our community of 50,000+ subscribers and stay informed on the latest trends and news in the FinTech & AI world with the weekly newsletter provided by Bussmann Advisory. The event promises a deep exploration of innovation driven by generative AI and harmonized data. Don’t miss out – join our vibrant community today!

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FICO

APRIL 3, 2020

When it comes to the financial fallout, small businesses, including smaller community banks, will take the biggest hit. They’re scrambling to stay afloat – but with no end in sight, what will this mean for the economy and the credit and lending industry? Be Creative, Engaged Community Leaders. Encourage community networking.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 15, 2013

If you are consolidating a branch into another in the next town over, select your best people to run the consolidated branch, ideally with residents from each community. Communicate with community leaders - One of the most often cited reason for leaving a struggling branch open is the perception closing it would have with the community.

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Social Assurance

JANUARY 25, 2022

We are only about 60 days away from Spring and as we head into the spring of 2022, lending is a primary focus for financial brands. The market for mortgage lending is competitive. What is social selling and why should I care? If you’re a financial brand, we’re here to help you support social selling while mitigating risk.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. Economists cite as the main culprit the collapse of the subprime mortgage market — defaults on high-risk housing loans — which led to a credit crunch in the global banking system and a precipitous drop in bank lending. To fight inflation, the Fed raised rates aggressively (familiar?).

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Financial institutions went from having no PPP lending program at all to funding their first loan in 90 days – and this with literally last-minute regulatory guidance. Jill is continually demonstrating just how loud a $300 million community bank can roar!

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Filene

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Local Host: Community Choice Credit Union. Click the arrow below to REGISTER for this event: WHAT IS AN IMPACT ROADSHOW? QCash - An omni-channel lending solution that offers relationship based underwriting (without credit check) to members in search for small, short-term unsecured loans. 9:00 a.m. - Filene Host: Tansley Stearns.

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Filene

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Local Host: US Community Credit Union. Click the arrow below to REGISTER for this event: WHAT IS AN IMPACT ROADSHOW? QCash - An omni-channel lending solution that offers relationship based underwriting (without credit check) to members in search for small, short-term unsecured loans. 1:00 p.m. - Filene Host: Lauren Culp.

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Social Assurance

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

As a financial loan officer, utilizing social media as a tool in your sales funnel can be both challenging and rewarding. The financial industry is competitive, and your customers’ attention spans are shorter than ever , so it’s important to cut through the noise to reach and sell to your communities.

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Filene

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Local Host: Marshall Community Credit Union. Click the arrow below to REGISTER for this event: WHAT IS AN IMPACT ROADSHOW? QCash - An omni-channel lending solution that offers relationship based underwriting (without credit check) to members in search for small, short-term unsecured loans. 10:00 a.m. -

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

The first 3,000 of those new moderators were announced last spring, in the days and weeks that followed a rash of suicides that were posted on the social media site. “If If we’re going to build a safe community, we need to respond quickly,” CEO Marc Zuckerberg wrote in a post at the time.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. Leveraging social media, Gentle Monster started to get traction. These striking designs paid for themselves in media exposure.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

With a little time and attention, every community banker can make a difference in our industry’s grassroots advocacy. For that reason, today’s lawmakers on Capitol Hill are highly attuned to their bosses—their constituents, which includes community bankers. By Michael Blankenheim.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 22, 2013

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 5. This banker does.

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Social Assurance

JULY 26, 2019

In today’s world, social media and the internet can sometimes make it even harder to tell good stories. When we tell stories on social media, we often neglect to tell the beginning and choose instead to we tell it post-mortem. How many times have you seen posts that thank people after the event has wrapped up?

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Banking 2020

MARCH 10, 2015

The rapid emergence of crowdfunding, alternative lending, and peer-to-peer transactions strongly indicates that small businesses are shifting away from the traditional banking environment. Here are a few ways Kyle described how this concept might work: Marketing to the local community and actively becoming a part of it.

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William Mills

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For banks, small business and commercial lending can be bogged down by tedious application processes, sluggish response times and frequent delays. Established just last year, AI Foundry created a lending system focused on transforming the customer experience using robotic process automation. www.miradortech.com. www.rcgiltner.com.

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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. Oh, by the way, that Fintech darling of two years ago Lending Club?

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Helping banks with customer retention by transforming data into knowledge about their customer’s engagement and key events on their journey. This looks like a polling tool, to get quick client feedback, mostly about current events. The account has a tie into social media and sharing. This is a very impressive offering. ^SR.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The crowd, comprised of a mix of digital currency veterans and novices alike, displayed an enthusiasm and critical eye that largely defined the day’s events. I know this will result in deluge of abuse via anti-social media, but I actually think he is right about this, and I’m not sure it helps to advance the cryptocurrency case.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 4, 2023

You can’t get ten triple-digit project ROIs in a row in lending, credit, mortgage, wealth, insurance, or several other areas. Consider that many banks have one person in their marketing department, and then they task that person with managing events, merchandise, and brand building. Marketing can. You can do this with small wins.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Partnerships & Events. Beyond brand partnerships, Google appears to be focusing more on beauty events with industry leaders. At the event, Google highlighted an increase in personalized searches for beauty products that meet specific user needs — again using search data to help beauty brands make consumer-focused decisions.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

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.” Favorite Gonzo quote of the event: “For 16 years, we’ve said our technology sucks … because it’s never good enough.” Where are the signings?

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 13, 2022

In this age of social media, global interconnectedness, and market volatility, banks can be one tweet torrent away from a lightning-fast onset of risk. Instantly, the cash flow for those businesses that many community banks lent to is impacted. However, the risk of these two events is not exactly equal.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In the age of Twitter, Apple Pay and Lending Club, it’s important to remember the shareholder performance delivered by Gleason and team when compared to the behemoths. No one has been more successful at using social media to generate awareness and a positive image for their bank than Jill (@JillCastilla, @CitizensEdmond).

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Zynga made social gaming history with a $7B IPO and generated huge returns for early investors like USV by building on top of existing social networks. Lending Club made changes to its business model that created new opportunities for growth. Lending Club. King Digital Entertainment. Delivery Hero. Stemcentrx.

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