South State Correspondent

APRIL 12, 2022

We feel that as community bankers, we can learn much from Jamie Dimon (Chairman and CEO of JPM) and from Warren Buffet. As usual, it was full of insight that every community banker should consider. Our focus is on information that pertains to the community banking industry. 2) Leadership Matters. 3) Community Focused.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Making small business loans efficient and worthwhile Digitalizing the lending process can help financial institutions win small business loans and meet customers' needs. You might also like this webinar on small business lending best practices. Top problems in small business lending. Roadblocks to Success.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Other podcasts might be internationally based and of little interest to community financial institutions or credit unions based in the U.S. Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers 8. It also examines how community banks are different than other types of financial institutions, along with strategies for optimal operations.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Our senior leadership team took that to heart, and it stuck with us, creating an environment in which compliance plays a significant role in everything from our strategic direction to our daily operations. Managing compliance is a role that community bankers take more seriously than any other segment of the financial services industry.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Southern Bancorp partners with other community banks to increase loan accessibility and financial literacy to low-income customers. As CEO of Southern Bancorp, Darrin Williams wants to promote relationships between community banks and CDFIs to create more prosperous communities. Better serving its communities.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In a survey of community banks and credit unions at the 2016 Sageworks Risk Management Summit, 42 percent of respondents said Commercial Real Estate, or CRE, lending was their primary focus for loan portfolio growth. For many, commercial real estate lending may be the ticket. This reflects a larger industry trend.

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PopularBank

OCTOBER 2, 2020

A Message from Popular Bank Chief Operating Officer Manuel Chinea. When we first opened our doors, we did so with a great sense of purpose and a vision to make a difference within our communities. This year our small business clients faced and continue to navigate significant financial and operational disruption.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Under the leadership of CEO Randell Leach, Beneficial State Bank is pursuing an ambitious mission of financial activism and strong corporate values. The idea that community banking can be a force for positive change is at the heart of Beneficial State Bank, which engages its customers through financial activism. Photo: Ashley Courter.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 26, 2015

A Pennsylvania community bank’s perspective on the rewards and potential perils of developing a separate business line. Forming new business lines—if carefully planned and considered—can be a potentially significant way for a community bank to boost revenues and profits. which had long-established ties to the local community.

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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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Perficient

MAY 28, 2020

J oin our community for career tips, upcoming opportunities, and to keep up with all things Life at Perficient. Pega Leadership does a really good job supporting employee growth and is committed to understanding what each member of the team is looking for in career paths. We have active Pega jobs in Washington DC open.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

“For Ron, giving back to the community is part of the essence of who he is. With vigor and a strong commitment to service, Ron Paul leads a rapidly growing community bank in Maryland. Ronald Paul first encountered community banking as a real estate developer in the early 1980s. Don’t expect to find him home on a weeknight!”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

Finch Capital and Fenway Summer Ventures participated in the round, which will bolster the company’s trade finance operations targeting SMBs across Europe. million in new funding to support its operations in Peru and Mexico, according to ImpactAlpha reports. Based in Ireland, Supply Finance landed $4.9 said this week. Tienda Pago.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Communities First Financial Corporation (Now FFB Bancorp) (OTCQX: FFBB) #2. The bank was founded in 1907 and has operated continuously since 1908 with branches in Durham, Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem. Treasury as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). OFG Bancorp (NYSE: OFG) #4.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Daniel Galindo, pictured, and Doug Schaeffer of Woodforest National Bank helped involve the community bank in providing funding for and access to affordable housing. We worked with the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs to jumpstart its down payment assistance program,” recalls Schaeffer. “We

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

With nearly three decades of experience directing commercial lending, corporate finance, and insurance for leading brands, Perficient’s Insurance Principal, Brian Bell, stands at the forefront of our financial services practice.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We see bank leadership earnestly working through the spirit of ESG in dozens and dozens of boardrooms across the country, and we are bullish that corporate and workplace leadership will be a catalyst for positive change. No one wants anything to be misinterpreted as a lack of sincerity. Earning the Trust of the Stakeholders.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2016

For some time now, some people have thought the Bitcoin Core development team is too conservative and too concerned with technical failures to take action to improve the ability of the network to grow, but after the collapse of the DAO, two Ethereum blockchains are operating, lending more credence to bitcoin’s approach.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. Clearly, community banks in the region have plenty of opportunities to do what they do best: forge deep and lasting relationships with their customers and communities. These include family-owned businesses, community businesses and operating companies.

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Independent Banker

JULY 28, 2016

For more than 30 years my community bank has offered college scholarships to local high school students. That’s why I’m so passionate about our scholarship program, and why I hope to persuade one or two candidates to consider a career in community banking. By Rebeca Romero Rainey.

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Independent Banker

JULY 29, 2016

The demand for professional development opportunities for community bankers has never been greater. Last year Community Banker University’s eight certification programs provided more than 4,000 community bankers with highly tailored training.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Premium benefits packages, professional development and TLC during the pandemic—this year’s winners do everything in their power to keep their community bankers happy and fulfilled. We asked both leaders and staffers to tell us what makes their community banks stand out as employers. Key Community Bank: Leading by example.

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Bobsguide

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The encouraging research findings coincide with the launch of season two on Finastra Universe TV – a new series of on-demand digital thought leadership videos exploring this world of open finance. Open communities: Creating more equitable access to banking.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

We recently spoke with community bank CEOs from across the country to gain insights on how they’re proactively positioning to manage risks and take advantage of growth opportunities in the coming year. Following some respite in 2022, community bankers are bracing for a tougher economic landscape ahead in 2023. By Beth Mattson-Teig.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

offers a “humanly simple” leadership style of looking out for others. When Gowen first arrived at Merchants & Planters in 1983 to serve as its president and senior lending officer, the bank had two branches and $47 million in assets. In rural communities like ours, the consumer has a lot of needs,” he explains.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 28, 2016

Leadership Team—Citizens Bank of Las Cruces’ executive management team, from left: Jed Fanning, Tim Hargrove, Ruth Christopher and George Ruth. As a community bank, Citizens Bank of Las Cruces has roots in our community, in our history and in our culture. Citizens Bank of Las Cruces. Las Cruces, N.M. ROAA in 2015: 2.07

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. million gets the vaunted consumer lender a much-prized bank charter, low-cost deposits to juice current earnings, and a business lending capability to drive future growth. Lifetime Leadership Achievement Awards.

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Independent Banker

MAY 24, 2016

However, the farm community already is being forced to defend even this scaled-back safety net. million farms and the community banks that lend to them each growing season, Scanlan points out. million farms and the community banks that lend to them each growing season, Scanlan points out. Ongoing concerns.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Financial institutions went from having no PPP lending program at all to funding their first loan in 90 days – and this with literally last-minute regulatory guidance. Jill is continually demonstrating just how loud a $300 million community bank can roar!

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

This year’s winners: Left: Central Valley Community Bank, People’s Choice Award; Middle: Kennebec Savings Bank, Exceptional Community Bank Service Award; Right: Cross River Bank, Emerging Service Program Award. Exceptional Community Bank Service Award. Instead, we give those dollars to the community.”. Asset size: $1.36

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

A community bank’s practical guide to compliance cost control. Few community banks have the luxury of ripping and replacing their entire compliance management strategy, leaving many executives on the hunt for practical tips. Complicated or not, one thing is certain: Community banks can’t afford to skimp on their compliance efforts.

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PopularBank

MAY 27, 2020

Popular Bank Chief Operating Officer Manuel Chinea joined Amigos de Univision and the Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey to discuss the current state of small business amid COVID-19 on Sunday, May 17, 2020. Our communities and small businesses are facing an unprecedented time.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 26, 2016

Of course, community banks are the primary economic engines behind small businesses on Main Street America, funding more than 60 percent of all small-business lending. When you’re looking at key issues in the community, bring entrepreneurs to the table and ask them to solve it—because that’s who solves things,” Williamson insists.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

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. THE BANKING AWARDS. GonzoBanker of the Year – Large Banks.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 12, 2021

The Taskforce was charged with examining the existing legal and regulatory environment for consumers and financial services providers and making recommendations to the Bureau’s leadership for improving consumer financial laws and regulations. The report consists of two volumes. Fintech regulation. Small dollar credit.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. Leadership and board members. Business lending and corporate cards. Business lending and corporate cards. Sigma aims to streamline business operations. Funding, valuation, and investors. Source: Stripe.

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Banking 2020

MARCH 10, 2015

The rapid emergence of crowdfunding, alternative lending, and peer-to-peer transactions strongly indicates that small businesses are shifting away from the traditional banking environment. Here are a few ways Kyle described how this concept might work: Marketing to the local community and actively becoming a part of it.

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