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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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If You Are Tired of Being Transactional, You Need A Hedge Program

South State Correspondent

An inverted yield curve, continued bank failures, and the desire to manage risk and offer clients higher service are all factors that are driving more community banks to adopt a loan hedge program. Community banks’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times.

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If You Are Tired of Being Transactional, You Need A Hedge Program

South State Correspondent

An inverted yield curve, continued bank failures, and the desire to manage risk and offer clients higher service are all factors that are driving more community banks to adopt a loan hedge program. Community banks’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times.

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MiHC La Puerta Portal Opens the Door to Success for Hispanic Students in Detroit

Perficient

Perficient developed the La Puerta portal framework as a way of giving back to the Detroit community and to pave the way for students to benefit from a college education. The Michigan Hispanic Collaborative’s goal to improve the economic strength of the Hispanic community in Michigan. “We ” In Michigan, only 15.7%

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Beyond compliance: Advantages of customer-centric KYC in 2023

Abrigo

Informing clients that KYC practices are in place for their protection can help alleviate the tension. KYC questions may provoke skepticism or confusion, but assurance that disclosing the required information is in the client’s best interest often eases concerns. Miss” and thus alienating nonbinary customers.

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Fighting Food Insecurity in Vermont and New Hampshire: A Community Effort

Ublocal

With many pandemic-related food relief programs ending—including increased SNAP benefits and free school lunches —as well as rising inflation and food costs , the risk of food insecurity for residents across our region is ever-growing. It’s also something that we can all work on together to eliminate.

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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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