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Small banks: Big challenges and big opportunities

Abrigo

Relationship focus helps CFIs Small banks can leapfrog competitors and better serve their communities by combining their unique advantages with smart management and partnerships. How can community financial institution leaders manage their challenges and seize their opportunities at the same time?

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Fed Looks To Small Banks To Bail Out SMBs

PYMNTS

The Federal Reserve is looking toward a time-worn source to help with bailing out many smaller businesses and individuals as they enlist smaller regional and local banks for the job. One such bank is New Jersey-based OceansFirst, with its 118-year-old history and assets numbering $10.2 billion in the small town of Toms River.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

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. Kansas City.

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Retail Pulse: Sears To Open ‘Home & Life’ Stores, Amazon Reduces Whole Foods’ Prices

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The locations, which the company said were created based on insights from Sears Appliances & Mattresses stores, are set to be located in Alaska, Kansas and Louisiana. Boutros continued, “We are here to serve these communities and this is part of our strategy to maintain a presence in markets where we have right-sized our footprint.”.

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Crowdfunding, Deferred Loan Payments Jumpstart SMB Relief

PYMNTS

to help bailing out their SMB customers, with some regional financial institutions (FIs) already taking action. In Massachusetts, community FI Eastern Bank announced a $10 million commitment aimed at facilitating aid to SMBs as well as consumers and nonprofits affected by the coronavirus.

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Straightforward Principles of Success

Independent Banker

Under the big Montana sky, Mark Zaback helps lead a community bank with a cowboy code. Western Region Award Recipient. Our employees are encouraged to get involved in the community by attending events and participating in organizations they have a passion for. The community bank structure—it’s never about one person.”.

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Simmons First to Close 10 Branches for $1.6M in Yearly Savings

American Banker

plans to close 10 banks across four states by the end of the second quarter: three branches in Arkansas, four in the Missouri and Kansas region and three in Tennessee. Simmons First National in Pine Bluff, Ark.,