Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Community Financial Services Bank, Benton, Ky.; In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. Clockwise from top left: Grand Ridge National Bank, Wheaton, Ill.; Bank of Montana, Missoula, Mont.;

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Second, in a world where “developers are often the deciders” when it comes to technical matters for business, the worlds of talent management, sales and marketing need to rethink and rewrite how they pitch to and recruit those within the developer community. Getting Liberated From Legacy Systems.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 5, 2024

In this article, we will consider how and why loan size is one of the most significant drivers of profitability for community banks and what community banks can do to improve performance. Cross-sell opportunities, especially demand deposits in today’s market, can double the ROA/ROE on an average-sized commercial loan.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 5, 2024

In this article, we will consider how and why loan size is one of the most significant drivers of profitability for community banks and what community banks can do to improve performance. Cross-sell opportunities, especially demand deposits in today’s market, can double the ROA/ROE on an average-sized commercial loan.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

That’s even more true for community banks, which lack the resources larger FIs have to support modernization initiatives and technology investment efforts. At the same time, the logistical challenges and competitive pressures associated with digitization remain just as pertinent for community banks.

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Independent Banker

JULY 30, 2015

An interview with Chris Lorence, ICBA’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer. Meet ICBA’s Marketing and Communications Contact. Leading a team of marketing and communications experts, he is an outside-the-box thinker who believes strongly in the mission of the organization and the importance of community banks.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Photo by Radachynskyi/Adobe Using ICBA’s Marketing Communications Toolkit, your community bank can tell its story with intention and precision. For the banking industry, marketing can be finicky. It offers professional tips that will help fine-tune your approach and set your marketing strategy up for success.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Kathy Strasser of IncredibleBank is evaluating marketing campaign management platforms. We asked several banking leaders how they’ve employed fintech to ramp up their marketing campaigns, hone their analytic strategies and gain new patrons in the process. Fintechs know how to reach and work with the community.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

As social media platforms tinker with their algorithms, marketing experts say one trend is clear: Paid social campaigns are becoming increasingly necessary to cut through the noise and reach customers. They share tips for how community banks can get started. In its simplest form, it expands the reach of a community bank’s content.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

However, there may be an opportunity to get more contactless cards into the hands of consumers — an opportunity that involves community banks and is backed by financial incentives. ICBA Bancard’s 1,600 community bank customers have issued more than 7.3 ICBA Bancard’s 1,600 community bank customers have issued more than 7.3

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 30, 2023

While desiring to bank everyone in your community is noble, it can be a poor use of resources. Not to say you want to ignore parts of your community, but why not focus more of your resources on those industries that will make your bank more profitable?

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 19, 2024

In a future article we will discuss how community bankers may structure their commercial loan products to maximize cross-selling and upsell opportunities. With proper tools and strategies, community bankers can upsell and cross-sell their products to maximize profitability. In banking, those numbers are markedly different.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

To that end, news came earlier this week in the United States that a dozen community and regional banks have formed a group aimed at exploring the opportunities amid FinTech offerings. The group, to be known as Alloy Labs Alliance, according to a press release , is being managed by FinTech Forge.

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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

One of the lessons that was driven home at the recent American Banker Small Business Banking Conference in Nashville was the difference in marketing between large national banks and community banks, particularly deposit marketing. The data would indicate not marketing to a new customer is a mistake.

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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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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. And that means it can be a challenge to keep up with the latest trends in social media marketing. By Julie Kendrick.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 26, 2024

Bankers provide advice based on the customer’s particular situation and needs, as those needs change and evolve over the customer’s lifetime and as the market changes. New customers drain bank resources with acquisition, processing, and onboarding costs. Existing customers are more profitable than new customers.

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Perficient

AUGUST 11, 2020

Communication – Gathering and analyzing critical information is important in prioritizing those who are high-risk and providing adequate resources where necessary. Boost existing resources with powerful enhancements. In it, we explore ways you can: Automate user interactions with chatbots.

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ABA Community Banking

MARCH 23, 2020

The post Coronavirus Response: Common Practices for Community Banks appeared first on ABA Banking Journal. Nuts-and-bolts strategies to help banks respond to the coronavirus pandemic .

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 19, 2023

In this article, we will look at deposit performance data related to high balances and show how banks can dramatically increase value by restructuring relationship-based products and better-allocating marketing/sales dollars more efficiently. This is over three times the life of a money market account that is over $1mm in balances.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In two articles in the past few weeks ( here and here ), we discussed how the “higher-for-longer” interest rate environment will affect the community bank sector – continued increase in the cost of funds (COF), steady yields on loans, and a decrease in net interest margin (NIM) will put severe pressure on ROE for new loan originations.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

FedNow can be another positive differentiator for our nation’s community banks, but we must be ready for this real-time service and its 24/7/365 requirements.”. With FedNow entering the market, community banks can add in a missing payments link—instant payments—and help level the playing field with the nation’s largest financial institutions.

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Perficient

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rajpal will have responsibility for driving cloud and DevOps business strategy with cloud technology market leaders, including IBM, Google, VMWare, Amazon, Boomi, Microsoft, and Red Hat. She will provide resources to scale client projects and speed time to market. ” Jason Hudnall, AVP of GEO markets.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

ICBA has a growing network of people and resources community banks can tap into as they continue their innovation journeys. The ThinkTECH Accelerator is one of several initiatives underway this year to foster community bank-enabled fintech partnerships. By Charles Potts, ICBA.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Separate and unconnected sources of lending and credit data, lack of technical resources, and simply overwhelming amounts of information are common barriers to creating lender dashboards or credit overviews. They can result in sub-optimal lending for community banks and credit unions as well as the communities they serve across the country.

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ABA Community Banking

OCTOBER 6, 2021

CEO survey reveals banks’ resilience, commitment to employees and communities. The post How Community Banks Survived the COVID Pandemic appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Community banks are independent institutions fueled by the needs of their individual communities, so what constitutes innovation will look and feel different for every bank. I’ll be at the annual meeting of the California Community Banking Network. Thank you for being unwavering supporters of the communities you serve.

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Perficient

MARCH 15, 2021

As we continue our series of posts on making HIPAA work for you, I am going to address a common problem we hear from health care marketers: “My board/boss/CMO/Legal Counsel says we cannot use patient data for marketing communications.”. So what’s a modern, data-driven marketer to do? This is a tough one.

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Bobsguide

MARCH 30, 2022

Finastra announced that 27 community bank customers are working with Finastra to upgrade their legacy core banking solutions to Fusion Phoenix. Cloud delivery enables banks to consume – rather than own and run – core applications, freeing up IT resources to focus on competitiveness and growth.”.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 4, 2024

The Fed has paused for nearly a year now, and it was our experience in 2006-07 that bank cost of funds continued to increase as the market closed the delta between what someone could earn in a money market mutual fund and a bank account. But not until $1 trillion went from banking to money markets.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

As we enter a new chapter and start a new financial statement cycle, know that ICBA will be there to support you with tools, resources and advocacy efforts. It’s a challenge to be sure, but it’s one that community banks have previously faced with strength. Photo by Chris Williams. That’s where ICBA can provide support.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

.” Other critics have raised the issue that the OCC is advising examiners to take community group concerns into consideration separately from their M&A approval processes. ” Now, Powell is also raising concerns about how bank industry consolidation could negatively impact the small business community.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

Small businesses continue to struggle amid a tight labor market in the U.S., according to payroll and human resource management solution provider Paychex. “Businesses continue to face challenging hiring conditions due to the tight labor market,” said Paychex President and CEO Martin Mucci in another statement.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 14, 2016

Hey, community bank and credit union marketers: Imagine that you’re sitting in your office, and your CEO comes in and says, “Got a minute? I’m putting together a presentation for the board, and I need to tell them what the Marketing department is really good at.” ” You’ve got a minute.

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Independent Banker

JULY 30, 2015

An interview with Lindsay LaNore, executive vice president, Community Banker University®. Lindsay LaNore is responsible for ICBA’s new Community Banker University. She leads a team that works to identify, develop and offer courses that meet community banks’ educational needs. Community Banker University. Lindsay LaNore.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 22, 2023

You might also like this resource, Abrigo's "2022 Loan Review Benchmark Survey Results." download NOW Takeaway 1 The most popular blog posts on the Abrigo site reflect many of the priorities community banks and credit unions had in 2023. Community lending software can help get you there.

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