CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The CFPB has filed its opposition to the motion for a preliminary injunction filed by the plaintiffs in the Kentucky federal court lawsuit challenging the CFPB’s final small business lending rule (Rule). The plaintiffs in the Kentucky lawsuit are the Kentucky Bankers Association and several Kentucky banks. Continue Reading

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Kentucky Lending Texas Community Bank 88

CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 2, 2023

On Monday, the Texas federal district court hearing the lawsuit challenging the validity of the CFPB’s final rule implementing Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act (Rule) issued an order that preliminarily enjoins the CFPB from implementing and enforcing the Rule “pending the Supreme Court’s reversal of [ Community Financial Services Association of America (..)

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Texas America Community Lending 78

Independent Banker

MAY 31, 2022

Community banks have a choice about addressing the problem: Remain vulnerable or be vigilant. Fraud and cybercrimes continue to increase, causing challenges for community banks. But there’s plenty community banks can do to meet this challenge. Fraud and cyber attacks are on the rise, and at great expense to the industry.

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Community Bank Community Fraud Texas 134

Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

Here’s what community bankers need to know when planning their budgets for the next year. These days, there’s a lot to contend with as a community bank, from changing consumer behaviors due to the pandemic to uncertainty surrounding the economy and inflation. Build a lending niche. By Cheryl Winokur Munk. Quick stat. Paul, Minn.,

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Community Bank Community Lending Leadership 170

American Banker

MAY 1, 2024

Texas Dow Employees Credit Union has agreed to acquire Sabine State Bank and Trust in Louisiana to raise its profile in the oil-and-gas industry. The deal coincides with record levels of U.S. drilling this year.

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Houston Louisiana Texas Lending 78

Bank Innovation

APRIL 10, 2020

As of Friday afternoon, the Amarillo, Texas-based bank had received more than 1,250 […]. The technological upgrades Happy State Bank made prior to the COVID-19 crisis has helped the lender service and onboard customers digitally and deploy its own SBA Paycheck Protection Program platform in a matter of days, CEO J.

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Community Bank Community Texas Innovation 284

Abrigo

JANUARY 17, 2024

Takeaway 2 AML staff should recognize human trafficking red flags and know their customers well to help detect suspicious activity in their communities. One issue that hurts people and communities everywhere is human trafficking, and January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month.

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Training Community Software Texas 259

Abrigo

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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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Community Bank Kansas City Community Lending 195

SWBC's LenderHub

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In case you missed the first one, A Discussion About Equity and Inclusion in Lending , we are engaging in various conversations with real estate and real estate lending professionals regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion within our industries.

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Texas Taxes Lending Community 78

American Banker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

At a time when many lenders are shying away from an industry hit hard by the pandemic, State Bank of Texas is going all in.

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Texas Lending Industry Community Bank 83

PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

Community banks are pushing for a stronger role with their small business (SMB) customers. However, through an embrace of FinTech collaboration and industry consolidation, community banks appear poised to further dispel assumptions of a lack of digitization. has dropped from 8,000 in 2004 to about 5,400 in 2018. Strengthening SMB Ties.

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Community Bank Community Payments Fintech 123

Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

With the record growth of San Antonio, Houston and Austin, southern Texas is becoming a hub for business. Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. There’s a lot of energy in the southern half of Texas, and it’s not just the resources that power our homes and cars. Photo by Dennis Burnett.

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Texas San Antonio Community Bank Community 182

CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders, represented by Public Citizen and the Center for Responsible Lending, filed a lawsuit against the CFPB in D.C. lawsuit pending a decision in the Texas lawsuit on the 2017 Rule’s validity or to change the venue of the D.C. lawsuit to Texas.

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Groups Community Texas Lending 78

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. Location: The Woodlands, Texas. Assets: $9 billion. Generational wealth typically starts with home ownership. The largest purchase families make is typically their home.”.

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Austin Texas Community National 91

Independent Banker

JULY 30, 2015

Capital market access and employee ownership help fuel Veritex Community Bank’s rapid growth. After a career of nearly three decades as a banker serving various community and regional institutions in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, C. Veritex is a combination of the words “veritas,” which means truth in Latin, and “Texas.”

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Texas Fort Worth Dallas Community Bank 70

Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Here’s how community banks can enhance their payments offerings. As 2023 kicks off, community banks can respond to today’s payments landscape by addressing five key trends. Chris Doyle, Texas First Bank. billion-asset Texas First Bank in Texas City, Texas. Photo by Juan Moyano/Stocksy. By Colleen Morrison.

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Trends Payments Community Bank Texas 140

Abrigo

JANUARY 30, 2024

Attendees return from ThinkBIG energized and informed so they can continue positively impacting their institutions and, more importantly, their communities. Attendees learn, foster new relationships with peers, and gain the latest insights from key subject matter experts,” said the Vice President of a Texas Bank.

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Conference Arizona Phoenix Fraud 195

American Banker

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

First Foundation is relocating its corporate headquarters to Dallas, where the tax burden is lighter and it sees more opportunity to beef up lending, add wealth management clients and pursue acquisitions of community banks.

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Taxes Texas Dallas California 66

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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Community Bank Community Industry Texas 239

Abrigo

JULY 13, 2017

In September 2016, more than 240 bankers and industry experts from both community banks and credit unions attended the Risk Management Summit in Austin, Texas. The Summit is the industry’s leading life-of-loan conference, spanning loan origination through portfolio risk management in a CECL - current expected credit loss - world.

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Risk Management Management Denver Conference 170

American Banker

JULY 30, 2020

Now that its deal with Texas Capital has been called off, Independent Bank in McKinney plans to scale back or exit some commercial lines and will seek to duplicate its retail banking successes in Colorado.

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Texas Course Colorado Capital 45

American Banker

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Spirit of Texas Bancshares is acquiring four branches and a loan production office from Simmons First National Corp. as part of an aggressive expansion in its home state.

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San Antonio Texas Austin National 53

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

TPG of Texas offers payment solutions to over 600 utility firms and governments. Fed Moves To Revamp Community Reinvestment Act. The Federal Reserve Board took the first measure in the direction of revamping the rules that impact lending by banks in economically challenged regions. Terms of the arrangement were not made public.

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Groups Payments Texas Community 156

PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

Aura , a community development financial institution that provides cost-friendly loans to families, has completed a $50 million private social bond issuance, the company announced on Thursday (Mar. The money from the issuance will allow for 32,561 credit-building loans to what the company calls underserved and underbanked communities.

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Arizona Illinois Community Capital 107

American Banker

JULY 13, 2022

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Community Bank Texas Community Lending 74

Abrigo

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Indeed, deposit levels to transaction accounts among community banks exploded 74% to $896.5 31, 2019, and June 3, 2021, according to the Community Banking in the 21st Century report. In a competitive lending environment, many banks and credit unions are concerned about losing good-quality loans if they over-price them.

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Conference San Antonio Lending Fraud 195

American Banker

JUNE 14, 2021

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Community Bank Texas Community Lending 44

Bank Innovation

APRIL 28, 2017

In the blue-collar community of Clute, Texas, […]. There are advantages to being local Whether they prefer to interact with an institution online or in person—or a combination of the two—millennials tend to look for organizations that are involved in making their area a better place to live.

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Texas Millennials Community Online 170

American Banker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Green Bancorp's aggressive plan to attack its credit quality troubles and do what few Texas banks once would have dreamed of – quit energy lending – make it a subject of debate and a community bank to watch closely in 2017.

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Texas Community Bank Community Lending 34

Abrigo

MARCH 22, 2017

In September 2016, more than 240 bankers and industry experts from both community banks and credit unions attended the Risk Management Summit in Austin, Texas. The Summit is the industry’s leading life-of-loan conference, spanning business development through portfolio risk management in a CECL - current expected credit loss - world.

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Risk Management Management Denver Conference 186

Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Effects of the pandemic and other factors creating unpredictability have changed how community banks approach their credit and lending operations. Bankers and industry observers have several recommendations for how community banks can come up with risk ratings and rankings that foster safe growth in a volatile economic climate.

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Management Community Bank Community Regulation 103

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. The SBA West Virginia District Office named it the West Virginia Community Lender of the Year for 2021.

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West Virginia Virginia Community Bank Community 91

American Banker

MAY 19, 2020

The Texas bank is leaning on solutions from Lightico and MANTL to quickly set up accounts and handle loans when customers can’t sign documents in person because of the coronavirus emergency.

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Texas Tools Lending Online 90

CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Klein The Federal Reserve Board indicated it is scrutinizing mortgage loan pricing models that comply with Regulation Z but nonetheless, in the view of the Board, significantly increase fair lending risk. We wrote about the case, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc.

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Lending Community Regulation Texas 90

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

With financial institutions continuing to explore how to service small businesses operating in this industry without running afoul of federal law, credit unions, along with community banks, have worked to fill in the finserv gap as larger financial institutions back away, according to Politico.

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Lending Community Bank Community Fintech 108

Abrigo

JANUARY 15, 2015

With mortgage rates down in the US , many homebuyers are looking locally to their community banks to finance their new, potentially life-changing purchase. In the spirit of the go local movement, new data from Sageworks Bank Information peeked in on 10 cities to see which community banks were making an impact on local mortgage lending.

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Cleveland Detroit Michigan Community Bank 150

Abrigo

JUNE 25, 2015

During leaner years is often when the demand for ag loans increases , as it’s common for those full-time farmers to tap into their community bank to cover operating costs or invest is other lines of the agricultural business. The biggest name in ag lending is unlikely to be a surprise – John Deere Financial FSB.

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Community Bank Sacramento Lending Wisconsin 150