South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

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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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

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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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Independent Banker ’s annual Community Bank CEO Outlook survey reveals how community bank leaders plan to leverage today’s deposit-laden banking environment to grow this year. Janet Silveria, Community Bank of Santa Maria. So, what’s at the top of community bank leaders’ to-do lists? What changes will 2022 bring?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Porter Capital , which works with accounts receivable (AR) financing and asset-based lending solutions, will provide more funding for businesses in need of extra money from their current Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

But the latest initiatives reveal a growing interest in transforming internal processes, particularly among smaller banks looking to upgrade their core infrastructure and elevate small business lending operations. Hawthorn River Eyes Open Banking for Community FIs. Bectran Augments Cash Application With API.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Offering digital lending isn’t about the bells and whistles. Community bankers tell us why. started developing its digital lending platform about three years ago—and the bank is really glad it did. “I’m Community bankers are increasingly recognizing that the future of digital lending is here. By Beth Mattson-Teig.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 15, 2023

community bank management team. An example was a $1.95mm owner-occupied CRE loan, where the borrower had multiple operating accounts totaling almost $500k. While this community bank is not aggressively pricing new loans, losing this commercial credit with a substantial deposit relationship was painful.

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2024

Yet 30% of financial services leaders ban the use of generative AI tools within their companies, according to a recent survey by American Banker publisher Arizent. They can more easily consider how to harness genAI's power to enhance their operations, compliance, risk management, and member or customer experience.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 31, 2019

Financial institutions that want to play in the small business lending sandbox need to bring their digital toys. article , former Small Business Administration administrator Karen Mills said community banks with strong small business customer bases that don’t find new ways to serve them digitally are going to face a “reckoning.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Think of banking and you might think of lending and deposits, where firms make money on the spread between what they pay savers and what they take in from borrowers. The community banking model is based on customer relationships and the allocation of capital and extending loans. But banks cannot live on interest alone.

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 6, 2020

Addressing common loan and deposit operations process inefficiencies can help financial institutions deliver optimized value to customers and stockholders. In recent years, many financial institutions have been focused on improving their digital delivery capabilities, often at the expense of their operational groups.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The average community bank’s cost of funding is highly correlated to Fed Funds and SOFR (for the industry, the correlation has been 94% with a six-month lag over the last 20 years). Each episode creates another opportunity for the community bank to generate additional hedge fee income.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

29) said Alipay is introducing a range of solutions for small businesses to support growth of China’s SMB community. They include business intelligence solutions like analysis and support for digitization, as well as supply chain management tools and access to small business loans via Alipay’s online bank MYbank.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

. “Increasingly, many lenders have been starting to focus on [SMBs] and lending to [SMBs],” said Gabriele Sabato, who holds a doctorate in finance and is CEO and co-founder of SMB loan underwriting firm Wiserfunding , in a recent interview with PYMNTS. From Bank Accounts To LinkedIn Profiles. Expanding The Data Scope.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 3, 2023

In summary, FTP is both a regulatory requirement and an essential tool for managing a bank’s balance sheet structure and measuring risk-adjusted profitability. FTP can be extended to provide other analytical tools, as shown in the graph below. At its basic premise, FTP distributes banking profit between lending and deposits.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 2, 2023

In summary, FTP is both a regulatory requirement and an essential tool for managing a bank’s balance sheet structure and measuring risk-adjusted profitability. FTP can be extended to provide other analytical tools, as shown in the graph below. At its basic premise, FTP distributes banking profit between lending and deposits.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 2, 2023

In summary, FTP is both a regulatory requirement and an essential tool for managing a bank’s balance sheet structure and measuring risk-adjusted profitability. FTP can be extended to provide other analytical tools, as shown in the graph below. At its basic premise, FTP distributes banking profit between lending and deposits.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 26, 2019

The community bank model is built around customer service, but for many bank and credit union customers, the definition of “good service” has been changing over the last couple of decades. Stay Up-to-Date On Lending Best Practices. Learn More. The 2018 J.D.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Are community banks missing the chance to climb aboard the faster payments train? In late July, the Federal Reserve Faster Payments Task Force released its much-anticipated report on how to strengthen and operate the U.S. faster payments system. In a recent blog post , Giorgio pointed out that baby boomers make an average of 9.1

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 20, 2020

From economic forecasts to company culture, there were important takeaways for all community financial institutions. . Millennium Bank, like many community financial institutions, is heavily concentrated in commercial real estate (CRE). Drive Growth. Understanding the current state of banking and future expectations. learn more.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

This week’s look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaborations and open banking initiatives finds a focus on small business lending: In the U.K., Deloitte, Unqork, Plaid Debut Lending-as-a-Service Tool. ” Plaid Unlocks Payroll Data to Support PPP Lending. .”

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

The Social Bankers, a collective of community bank marketers, offers inspiration, information and professional development advice to community bankers focused on marketing and social media. Membership is open to non-competing community bankers throughout the United States. They’re getting the tools they need to make that step.”.

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Abrigo

JUNE 8, 2017

To provide bank management valuable information about ongoing and emerging market trends and developing areas of regulatory focus In order for a loan review program to be successful there are two foundational checkpoints for every financial institution: Objectivity of the loan review process, and an evolving lending policy.

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Abrigo

MARCH 31, 2020

“Our goal is to position lenders as the single point-of-contact for small businesses – the application, loan processing, and disbursement of funds will all be administered at the community level,” said Carranza said in a news release. For underwriting, lenders will need to verify a borrower was in operation on Feb. SBA Lending.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

But what has gotten less attention – largely because the practice is less common – is how microlending operations play out in developed nations like the U.S. Can a tool for fighting poverty in Bhopal work for customers in Brooklyn? Our job is to give them the tools they need to try to live up to that challenge.”.

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Abrigo

MAY 30, 2017

One of the biggest obstacles for many community banks and credit unions with aggressive growth goals is staffing. Moreover, many community banks and credit unions are located in more rural areas. While these are wonderful communities to call home, it can be difficult to convince prospects to relocate to less central locations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The rise in alternative small business lending players was first viewed as a competitive force against traditional financial institutions (FIs), although some legacy banks eventually embraced the new market entrants with partnerships and acquisitions to bolster their own small business lending activity. Despite the U.K.’s

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 22, 2023

You might also like this webinar, "Unraveling risk rating: Making sense of your best early warning tool." Those read most often in the past year include several that offer practical advice for operating ALM and CECL models. The FASB’s description of proposed changes can be found here.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The value driver in cash management is that it is usually some sort of operating account at the bank. As such, operating accounts have low-interest rate sensitivity. Here, a tool like IBIS World comes in handy for setting bank strategy as you can look up any of the below industries to see their geographical dispersion.

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Abrigo

JULY 5, 2020

Credit unions like Telhio Credit Union in Central Ohio had employees working around the clock to help with PPP loans, and they used an SBA lending solution that automated the origination process, as well as the forgiveness and administration phases. The SBA didn’t break out larger credit union PPP lending activity.)

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Our first base of operations was my basement in Reston, Virginia.”. That rate, he noted, is based on more than mutual soldier loyalty, as StreetShares has other lending requirements. And so with his friend, former Capital One executive and former South African Air Force member Mickey Konson, he founded StreetShares , Inc. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

Today, perhaps the biggest shift in banking that has directly impacted the small business consumer base is the rise of alternative lending FinTech firms, which have challenged banks to modernize their own ways of providing SMBs with credit. “Consumer banking has become very commoditized, but small businesses are still very underserved.”

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The West Virginia community bank is helping small-business customers get the financing they need while continually seeking new ideas to plan for its own future. Consider, for example, its commercial lending approach. We’ve got different tools in our toolbox that we can use to help the borrower get the financing they need.”.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 7, 2024

Will Copilot be the bank’s primary generative AI tool and how will Copilot change vendor strategies such as generative AI tools from Salesforce, Adobe, document intelligence systems, and other popular bank platforms which have or will have competing generative AI tools built in?

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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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Independent Banker

JULY 30, 2015

His role is to research, develop and provide members with superior products and services that meet the ever-changing needs of community banks and to help them to increase their competitive advantage. Having the best products and services will help community banks continue to effectively serve and compete in their communities.

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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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