Independent Banker
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
By Jim Reber, ICBA Securities As many community bankers are still picking up the pieces from their bond portfolio’s meltdown last year, it occurs to me that the breathtaking rise in rates has created at least one byproduct that is both unusual in frequency and tangibly beneficial for future performance. One is that they are loan surrogates.
Independent Banker
JULY 31, 2022
The financial press, economic commentators and social media sites have used a collection of terms this year that convey a certain image of market values for investment securities: “Plummet.” Community bankers have come to grips with the notion of their bond portfolios being, ahem, “submerged” in a number of ways. Underwater.”
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Independent Banker
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
What this has to do with community bank investment management may not be readily apparent. In March of that year, while thousands were attending ICBA LIVE in Orlando, the financial markets went into a frenzy. Belly of the curve matters to community banks. In fact, the tone is about to improve. There are really two reasons.
PYMNTS
MARCH 11, 2020
The analyst community balked at longer-term questions about the company’s liquidity even though 2019 was the company’s sixth straight year of triple-digit revenue growth with over 177,000 cars delivered and just shy of $4 billion in revenue. This year we expect another year of market-leading growth. New Markets. Ontario (L.A.),
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
FedEx Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Brie Carere said in an announcement for the technology, “The FedEx SameDay Bot is an innovation designed to change the face of local delivery and help retailers efficiently address their customers’ rising expectations.”
PYMNTS
MAY 9, 2018
Brent Messenger, global head of community at Fiverr, told PYMNTS that as freelancing becomes a way of life for so many, it’s time workers get access to the tools they need to manage a freelance lifestyle and budget as well as to grow their freelance career — and it’s time for cities to make themselves more welcoming to this type of worker.
Independent Banker
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
“Once he gets his mind set, a plan forms and then becomes a very calculated reality,” offers Tara Salinas, the bank’s marketing and business development officer. Its staff had about 40 people, many of its procedures were manual, and its competition was stiff with about five community banks as head-to-head rivals.
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