South State Correspondent

APRIL 18, 2023

We concluded that the market does not adequately compensate banks for credit and interest rate risks. Top-performing community banks deploy relationship banking. Bankers provide advice based on the customer’s particular situation and needs, as those needs evolve over the customer’s lifetime and as the market changes.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) has raised short-term interest rates by 3.00% in the six months between March and September. The market is now forecasting an additional 1.25% in hikes by year’s end, with the next move coming on November 3rd. Example of Future Path of Interest Rates.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 18, 2023

WATCH Takeaway 1 Banks and credit unions are critical sources of capital for businesses in their communities, so how institutions assess CRE credits matters. Takeaway 2 Advisors recommend that financial institutions look behind some of the headlines and examine their own markets before ruling out CRE altogether.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 30, 2023

With the debt ceiling uncertainty, an undecided Fed Reserve, and concern about credit quality, this is a perfect opportunity for community bankers to be trusted financial advisors. For example, below is a graph showing in the blue line where short-term rates have been from 1985 to the present (Prime, LIBOR, or Fed Funds are 99% correlated).

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 3, 2023

The second article compared and contrasted community banks’ pay-for-risk and relationship business models. We made the case that, over time, the market does not adequately compensate banks for credit and interest rate risks. Top-performing community banks deploy relationship banking.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

The platform will go live the same day the state’s legal medical marijuana market goes live, Tuesday (Aug. MTrac added in its announcement that it aims to operate as an example for other states that have legalized marijuana for recreational and/or medical use. Global Payout Inc. subsidiary MTrac Tech Corp. announced Monday (Aug.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

By Warren Sheydwasser With no shortage of tasks to complete during tax season, many financial professionals don’t need help expanding their to-do list. You commonly exchange many email messages with your clients but have you ever considered using your signature line as a marketing tool? Change your email signature line.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

Food delivery and Uber drivers, for example, are among those still able to work. Instacart’s downloads for the month of March 2020 increased 218 percent month-to-month, for example, and other grocery platforms saw increases not far behind. Another change to the freelancer community in the U.S.

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Abrigo

MAY 30, 2017

One of the biggest obstacles for many community banks and credit unions with aggressive growth goals is staffing. For one thing, there is a limited number of qualified loan officers and credit analysts on the market, especially seasoned bankers that have the skills needed in a rapidly growing institution.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 16, 2022

In a competitive market for commercial loans, every feature that can preserve credit quality or maintain pricing can be valuable to the lender. Many community banks will market their fixed rate loans based on the simplicity of the prepayment provision, and this starts by understanding the value that each provision creates.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Examples of "except"-ional problems I have seen cases where something is an exception even though there is a policy or guidance specifically allowing instances for what is being cited as an exception. For example, the lack of a loan agreement on a term loan is a common credit exception. and property tax payments.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Specific contract language is needed to, among other things, protect long-term land value, protect against weed infestations, ensure access protection (for example, stating they can only create and access certain roads and not an entire stretch of land). Market experience Know the land values. keep me informed. Watch Webinar.

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2018

Or, they can be creative arts performers, such as voiceover artists; technical service providers, such as programmers, and professional service providers, such as attorneys and tax accountants. The partners looked at more than 20 million tax returns from the 15 cities studied. Inviting Freelancers In.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 5, 2022

In a stagflation environment, as interest rates rise and cash flow (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), or net operating income (NOI)) decreases, the borrower’s capacity to service debt as measured by the debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) decreases rapidly.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. Corporate relocations and expansions—influenced by factors like affordability, low corporate tax rates, no personal income tax and a rich talent pool—have contributed to a momentum that isn’t likely to subside soon. Photo by Dennis Burnett. By Mindy Charski.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Job seekers are in the driver’s seat across most industries, including community banking,” says Lindsay LaNore, group executive vice president and chief learning and experience officer for ICBA. However, community banks have a big opportunity to stand out from the crowd of potential employers.”. LaNore believes the rules have changed.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

by regulatory initiatives (designed to spur competition in small business banking, open up the market to new challenger banks and support marketplace lending platforms), the bank loan is often the first place small business owners look when in search of capital. Fueled further in the U.K. venture capital investments in U.K. In the U.S.,

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Abrigo

MARCH 22, 2023

A well-known example of a TBML system is the Black Market Peso Exchange , where U.S. See Part I: Implications for Community Financial Institutions. For example, a seller exports $100,000 of goods to the buyer but only invoices the importer $10,000.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We look at community banks’ options for fighting this type of crime. Community banks can find ways to mitigate age-related fraud through technology, as well as by educating their customers of their particular risks. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert.

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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. So how can community banks help? By Beth Mattson-Teig. Click to enlarge.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Community bankers tell us why. In early 2021, the $490 million-asset community bank launched its Finastra Consumerbot product, which offers online applications for consumer loans for items like boats and vehicles. Community bankers are increasingly recognizing that the future of digital lending is here. By Beth Mattson-Teig.

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Abrigo

JULY 15, 2015

The transition from compliance to consulting makes sense: tax season is just that, a “season,” and nearly 60 percent of respondents to a Sageworks survey indicated they saw an increase in total revenue by adding financial services to their accounting practice. The advantage of working capital is obvious to some degree.

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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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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

After a lengthy stretch of strong economic growth and stock market gains, the inevitable correction arrived with force in the fourth quarter, culminating with a December that can only be described as “tres terrible!” China’s indices, for example, were down by 25% to 30% for the year. A Long, Cold December I could just scream!

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The poll was conducted by a San Francisco-based advocacy group called Small Business Majority, and its CEO John Arensmeyer has been a proponent of community grants that exist outside of the formal banking system that has controlled government aid up to this point. In comparison, small businesses selling similar products were forced to close.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6 Founded in 2002, the goal of Spreadshirt’s platform is to eliminate headaches and hurdles when bringing great ideas to market. million items last year. “[Our

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Even as nearly one-third of Americans are already members of a credit union, it seems there’s almost nothing the NCUA still won’t try to further expand the market reach and special tax-exempt privileges of the credit unions it supervises. Talk about your captive regulator! When credit unions say “jump,” the NCUA says, “how high?”.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 28, 2024

By partnering with community leaders, state and federal agencies, local commissions, and commercial customers, banks can be an effective conduit to leverage this public capital better while making sure the funds are fully utilized effectively in the communities we serve. There are lots of details and breadth in these programs.

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BankUnderground

JANUARY 26, 2023

Changes in the UK housing market trends since the start of the pandemic To analyse trends in the housing markets during the pandemic, we examine differences in growth rates of housing prices across different regions of the UK, as well as across different types of housing (such as flats versus detached, semi-detached or terraced houses).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

As online lending platforms proliferate among the SMB borrowing community, however, experts warn that a lack of regulation means these companies rarely publicly reveal interest rates and fees. On top of that, MacKrell said the government is not sufficiently enlightening the small business community about the risks of online lenders.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 21, 2019

It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but for many community financial institutions, a spectrum of different customers and banking needs is something that they see every day. A farmer, a university student, and a business owner walk into a bank. However, they’re probably seeing fewer of these customers walking into a physical branch.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The secret sauce, according to then-CEO Tina Sharky when PYMNTS spoke to her in 2017, was its elimination of what she called “the brand tax,” which typically pushes up prices on brand-name beauty products and household goods by as much as 30 percent. So what went wrong?

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Abrigo

JANUARY 11, 2017

You don’t have to be a tax or accounting expert, in other words, to run the firm. Implementing value pricing is one example. Blumer explained that government-required compliance work related to taxes, payroll and audits provides the least value since other firms can easily do that type of work.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Those concerns have eased somewhat, however, as FinTech firms assure accountants that technology can operate in harmony with human professionals — and as analysts urge the CPA community to take on a more strategic role with their clients. ” An Open Banking Opportunity. “They don’t want to talk about credits and debits.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

In other cases, stimulus payments were commingled with tax refunds, and were subject to garnishment. With the combined exposure through JHA, FIS, Corporate One Credit Union and others, Waterhouse estimated that RTP will reach 70 percent of the financial services market before the end of the year.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 5, 2021

Shouldn't the CFPB work to address the impediments to starting a bank in LMI markets rather than punish community banks who scrambled to serve their customers when the economy shut down? According to my firm's profitability peer group, a branch with $74 million in average deposits made a mere pre-tax profit of three basis points.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As the open banking business model permeates into the B2B financial services market, FinTechs and traditional financial institutions continue to find new use cases for API integrations and connectivity to elevate the business-user experience. Penta Integrates SumUp’s POS. There are over 5 million self-employed people in the U.K.,

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