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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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 23, 2021

Imagine a fintech, with off-the-chart valuations such as 2.6x Especially for a community bank. With more experience acquiring banks in the rearview mirror, fintech's who might have once been worried about bank valuations weighing them down, will be more confident to bid on for-sale banks, to be aggressive, to get deals done.

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Abrigo

APRIL 22, 2024

Recent dynamics of the small business lending market A deep understanding of the small business lending landscape and potential efficiencies can help banks and credit unions grow their portfolios. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending. Record new business formation and a wider gap between U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. Marketplace Lending. Honesty is the best policy.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

The State Bank of Vietnam granted FinTech startup GPay a 10-year license to provide intermediary payment services in the country — electronic payment portals, payment services, digital money transfer services and eWallet services. The G-Group ecosystem includes Vietnam’s social media network Gapo and P2P lending platform Tima.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 12, 2018

When I first read Standards Needed for Safe, Small Installment Loans from Banks, Credit Unions by the Pew Charitable Trusts that encouraged financial institutions to get back into small ticket consumer lending, I thought “what are they nuts!” So why would banks expand small-ticket, unsecured personal lending? Even the big banks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

and finance experts are celebrating with new data on the state of the entrepreneurial community. Eighty-three percent of SMBs said they don’t completely understand the new tax law and how it will impact their business, according to the National Association for the Self-Employed. dollar, commodities pricing and the U.S.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Philadelphia.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

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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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 4, 2018

With an ever-shrinking number of vendors in the FinTech pool, bankers must hold their providers accountable – even it means leaving them. Citi Launches Customer Communities. professionals the same way they view professionals in their commercial lending and credit areas. Heloc Tax Deduction Suspension.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

Hong Kong is known for its simple and predictable tax system, making it an attractive place for investment. According to FinTech accelerator tryb, despite the fact that there’s been an estimated $300 million in FinTech funding in Hong Kong, many of the startups in the industry face tough challenges when trying to get off the ground.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Now is the time for community financial institutions to pay attention. Millions of dollars in suspicious activity were not reported to FinCEN in a timely or accurate manner, including those connected to tax evasion, illegal gambling, money laundering, and other financial crimes. . Lending & Credit Risk. Learn More.

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FICO

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Increased provisions, reduced capital, less ability to lend. All this will raise the question: Whatever capital I have got, how much can I lend to borrowers who have a low confidence on their own financial prospects, and are unsure if they should borrow or not? They can optimize the use of their capital and who they lend to.

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Social Assurance

JANUARY 27, 2020

Today, the big headlines in financial services are often dominated by Fintechs. There’s no question that a lot of the work that these Fintechs do helps us both as consumers and financial marketers. Finding an extremely narrow solution is what Fintechs are great at; this is how they routinely make an impact.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

What happens when you give fintech nerds a healthy dose of wine and cocktails over the course of 4 hours? You get honest opinions about what is new and next in fintech. At the fintech cocktail club, we played a scientific game of Hot or Not (if you’re younger than 30, think of it as Fintech Tinder ). P2P lending.

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Jeff For Banks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Since his joining the Board, the bank has stabilized, returned to profitability, recaptured it's deferred tax asset, and NPAs/Assets have declined to less than 3%. Selection: Mitch Englert, EVP of Community Banking, Capital City Bank Group, Inc. They "received" their funds, and lent it into their communities.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The rising rates have not only made debt more expensive, but they have been a weight on loan growth across both bank and FinTech lending platforms in the back half of the year. It’s easy to lend money. It was, as PYMNTS noted, a seesaw year in the alternative lending world. Resetting Mortgage Services.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2018

The company noted that the goal of adding bikes was to continue to develop the “best possible experience for all members of the Lyft community.” In addition, personal loans are not the only things on the rise: The percentage of loans originated by FinTech firms is growing sky high as well.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 12, 2014

Fintech (note 1) has been part of YC from the beginning. The first class (Summer 2005) included one fintech startup, TextPayMe, among the eight companies. But as YC grew from 2005 to 2009, the number of fintech companies stayed at roughly 1 per year. You are almost guaranteed a multi-million funding. During the past 4.5

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 8, 2019

Which is becoming more challenging for the community financial institution due to heavy competition from money center and super-regional banks, credit unions, and fintech firms. I don't think community financial institutions can fund themselves solely from their commercial customers. My focus today is on consumer banking.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 8, 2017

The company announced last month that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with fellow Finovate/FinDEVr veteran Fidor Bank ( F11; FD16 ) that will make Token’s software available within Fidor AG’s digital banking and open community middleware technology, Fidor OS. The post Fintech Favorites appeared first on Finovate.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

There’s a lot to say about the overlap of Fintech and blockchain, but let’s find the very edge of the frontier and focus right there. Ethereum’s decentralized lending and trading are floating around 2,500 daily users. The lending product above is a bit more complicated. It’s like watching Mint.com emerge in 2007.

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Jessica Ellerm

MAY 5, 2016

As traditional types of security like the family home become further out of reach for the incoming generation of entrepreneurs, how will our traditional approach to lending need to change? To answer this question, let us revisit the significance of collateral in tradition lending. Lending needs to adapt to a changing world.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

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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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 22, 2016

million for its P2P lending platform for small businesses. Here are the fintech deals by size from 12 March to 18 March 2016: Future Finance. Alt-lender focused on lending against existing automobile titles. P2P real estate lending marketplace. Peer-to-peer lending marketplace. SmartAsset raised $3.8 Connecture.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 24, 2015

Dealstruck has raised $10 million in new capital from Community Investment Management. The online business lender now has a total capital of $70 million and says the investment will enable it to lend more than $100 million to small businesses. “And growing the capital pool means more access and more opportunity.”

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 13, 2016

With Shopify Integration, Thinking Capital Helps Diversify Alt Lending in Canada. The latest from FinDEVr New York 2015 presenters: OutsideIQ joins fintech accelerator, Bank Innovation INV, as an API partner. PayNearMe facilitates users to pay for their taxes in cash. See OutsideIQ at FinovateSpring in San Jose next month.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In an interview at CB Insights’ 2019 Future of Fintech conference, CFO and CPO William Gaybrick indicated that businesses are more constrained by developer resources than by capital. Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. Business lending and corporate cards.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

We love the robot as much as the next Fintech commentator. Like taxes. Second, Fintechs (e.g., This is why the OCC has spent so many calories on defining special purpose fintech charters , and why the local community bodies hate it. Don’t get us wrong. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

We love the robot as much as the next Fintech commentator. Like taxes. Second, Fintechs (e.g., This is why the OCC has spent so many calories on defining special purpose fintech charters , and why the local community bodies hate it. Don’t get us wrong. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

Instead, Urrutia said it’s going to take team efforts among small businesses, FinTechs, public entities and nonprofits like the Opportunity Fund. She said two truths that unite the otherwise diverse community of SMBs are that small businesses are economically vital, but extremely fragile. I Think We Can Do It’.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 25, 2022

How are you handling partnerships, and are you part of any fintech consortiums to assist are now common questions. Top Line Revenue & Lending. The sentiment is that banks have too much interest rate risk in their investment portfolios, taking away flexibility on the lending side. Real Estate Lending. and beyond.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Technological innovation has enabled FinTech start-ups to compete in a field previously dominated by banks and credit unions. At the same time, early adopters of new technologies, like mega banks, are edging out community banks and credit unions in the fight for customers and creating a rapidly consolidating industry.

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Lars Markull

JULY 19, 2022

In this post, I'd like to discuss another current Fintech trend: Vertical Banking. The bank could provide financial products such as bank accounts, credit cards, and lending to anyone who needed them. Concentrating on a specific community Finally, a banking solution could target a specific community. immigrants).

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The fintech sector attracted $332 million in new capital the first week of August. Fintech deals by size from 30 July to 5 August, 2016: Mosaic. Lending marketplace for small businesses. Self-employment tax payments. Tags: SMB, payments, tax prep, accounting. Total dollars raised YTD is $19.6 Total raised: $44.7

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 13, 2022

One morning, President Trump tweeted his desire for an additional tax on all foreign-owned companies operating in the US. Instantly, the cash flow for those businesses that many community banks lent to is impacted. That is a significant change in risk for a material part of a large community bank’s balance sheet.

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