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Community Bank CEO Outlook 2022: Your priorities for the new year

Independent Banker

Independent Banker ’s annual Community Bank CEO Outlook survey reveals how community bank leaders plan to leverage today’s deposit-laden banking environment to grow this year. Janet Silveria, Community Bank of Santa Maria. So, what’s at the top of community bank leaders’ to-do lists? What changes will 2022 bring?

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The ICBA 22/23 executive committee is all in

Independent Banker

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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Bankers Are Navigating a Brave New World with Mergers and ESG

Gonzobanker

Cornerstone Advisors estimates $145 billion of pre-tax revenue has disappeared for bankers via margin compression in only the past two years. On another front, you have digital disruption and fintech innovation, forcing bankers to step up their investments in transformation and more aggressively attack their existing business models.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

A few years ago, very few people would have guessed that tens of billions of dollars would be invested in fintech vendors and solutions annually – except it happened. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Best Fintech Acquisition by a Bank. Fintech Acquiring Bank.

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Bank Innovation: Three Ideas

Jeff For Banks

Fintech, regtech, martech (new one), AI, RPA, Chat Bot, actual bot. Community financial institutions' resources are already taxed by technology and regulation. Don't over-tax by encouraging innovation on problems that don't exist either internally or with our customers. What's a banker to do? Problems we know we have.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

FinTech threats and distractions. 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. Payments chaos.

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The platform is now: Corporate banking and the ecosystems of the future

Bussman Advisory

We think banks must focus on putting the infrastructure in place to build such value chains in financial services too – for example, by taking advantage of the burgeoning third-party Fintech offering. This can be within financial services, for example by providing insurance, accounting and tax services, or data analytics.

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