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Tighten up your community bank’s security

Independent Banker

ICBA’s Bank Security Institute offers critical incident response strategies to keep your physical branch location safe. The pandemic forced industries to accelerate their adoption of digital applications, and community banking was no exception. However, it’s important not to let your community bank’s physical security protocols lapse.

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How to Practice Loan Pricing Discipline

South State Correspondent

Community bankers need to practice realistic loan pricing discipline. However, we need to understand the meaning of pricing discipline and its effect on community bank performance. This is strong evidence that community banks are pricing to an arbitrary minimum credit spread in this set of loans.

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3 Ways Financial Institutions Can Step Up for Underserved Communities

Perficient

The financial services industry must consider its customer experience game while also grappling with a sense of distrust from many communities due to systematic barriers, maintaining utmost accessibility due to the essentiality of the business, and the lack of financial literacy across the country. Trust and Transparency. .

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How to Set Your Strategic Planning Time Horizon

South State Correspondent

For example, at present, return on equity performance is about 12% for the average community bank. After adjusting for risk and cost, individual securities and loans perform approximately the same. Securities add no long-term value while loans contribute about 10% ( HERE ) to value. Why is that? is step one.

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How To Do Better Against National Bank Lending Competition

South State Correspondent

Community bankers need to understand their competitive landscape. Who the competition is, what the lending competition is offering, their delivery channels, and service levels can help community banks differentiate their services and enhance their competitive advantage.

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How to Get Started With a Power Platform COE

Perficient

The following is the fifth and final in a series of blogs about how a center of excellence can help you unlock the potential of your people and Power Platform. Throughout this series, we have explained how Power Platform enables your makers and why and how a COE enables these makers. Planning a PowerApps champion community.

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AI fraud challenges: How to guard against losses

Abrigo

Here are several suggestions for tightening security. Takeaway 2 Improving security questions is a good step to take to avoid text-to-speech AI fraud schemes. Best practices Addressing AI fraud in your policies AI fraud can be particularly tricky because it impacts how financial institutions verify customers’ identities.

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