PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

The National Retail Federation ’s annual convention may have come and gone but the sentiments, strategies and lessons learned from facing nearly a year of pandemic-led changes by some of the world’s largest merchants are going nowhere fast — especially when it comes to their embrace of increased digitalization. We’re not a data company.

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Cisco

JANUARY 10, 2023

As a change agent serving the financial services industry for over 20 years, it is a great privilege to collaborate with Bank, Insurance, and Wealth Management institutions to devise and execute digital transformation strategy, solve complex business problems, and leverage technology to strengthen business results.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

There's no doubt that the small business community is facing a period of immense tribulation. As Eiriz explained, the small business lending community has the opportunity, and perhaps even the obligation, to embrace collaboration and dig deeper into the entrepreneurial community in order to best serve SMBs and support the broader economy.

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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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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

JANUARY 31, 2023

Community bankers and industry experts share how to best put this data to use. According to a recent Bank Director survey, nearly half of financial institutions report not effectively using their available data, which leaves potential strategies untapped. billion-asset First State Community Bank in Farmington, Mo. The results?

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Experts say community banks can use education, biometrics and solid cybersecurity practices to fight this growing area of crime. Say a scammer calls a community bank customer and gains their trust by using information obtained from a major data breach. By Elizabeth Judd. Examples of remote authentication fraud. New account fraud.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 14, 2021

In June of 2008 I gave a speech titled "The Death of the Community Bank" and in that speech I made predictions. Much like the General Store fell victim to the supermarket and the lumber yard fell victim to Home Depot, I predicted the community bank that did not pick targeted customer niches or develop product expertise will meet it's doom.

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Perficient

JANUARY 5, 2021

The expanded executive leadership team will drive continued growth and operational excellence across Perficient while delivering superior solutions for clients. “As ” Prakash Chembai, AVP of India global delivery operations. ” Glenn Kline, AVP of custom development and mobile solutions. Ostasz, AVP of U.S.

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Jack Henry

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Community and regional banks and credit unions can learn about payments trends in 2023, FedNow, streamlining experiences, reducing fraud and risk, and the future of payments.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

A secure, open-loop, cost-saving, customer-accessible, multiplatform P2P payments network might sound too good to be true, but community bank consortium Alloy Labs Alliance hopes to achieve just that with the CHUCK payment rail. A different kind of peer-to-peer payment service is now available, “built by community banks for community banks.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

To thrive in the eCommerce age as it contends with Amazon , Walmart is planning to make its supercenters the heart of a network of businesses operating together to drive profits and bring in customers, The Wall Street Journal reported. The giant stores are large operations offering 100,000 products and are approximately 180,000 square feet.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Community Banks as Venture Capitalists In fact, not all providers of venture capital are venture capitalists. According to Cornerstone Advisors’ What’s Going On in Banking 2023 study, there are about 500 community banks and credit unions making direct investments into fintech startups. And not just the large megabanks. billion in 2021.

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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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South State Correspondent

APRIL 9, 2024

We estimate that the average contractual loan commitment for term credit at community banks has decreased from just under five years in 2022 to just under three years currently. Community banks should carefully consider the prudence of such a strategy from both a risk and revenue perspective.

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Abrigo

MARCH 14, 2024

Strengthening customer relationships with tangible value and personal touch Customer retention in banking can be challenging for community financial institutions. Follow this guide for strategies to stay competitive. This plan should include strategies for different types of customers.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 26, 2023

The bigger risk to community banks’ business model is not a moderate recession induced by aggressive interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve. This article will discuss community banks’ strategies and tactics to mitigate a prolonged and profoundly inverted yield curve.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

Large financial institutions (FIs) are increasingly turning to FinTech firms and alternative lenders to augment their small business (SMB) offerings, but community banks are beginning to get on board with the partnership strategy , too. They’re very disciplined on credit and interest rate risk,” he said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Marg ERP is part of a growing community of FinTechs across India working to improve small businesses' B2B operations via commerce, payments, financing and other services, as more conglomerates, including Walmart , also heighten their presence in India's B2B FinTech arena.

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Abrigo

APRIL 25, 2024

Takeaway 3 With lower interest rates nowhere in sight, lenders need to monitor and adjust lending and underwriting strategies based on their own institution’s credit risk profile. At the same time, 59% pursued credit to meet operating expenses. The disparities across industries highlight the need for tailored strategies by lenders.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

In an effort to restock stores faster, Target is experimenting with a new strategy to distribute products to its stores. The retailer is testing the new strategy at a warehouse in New Jersey. The facility is making smaller and more frequent shipments to stores, while using the same inventory supply to fill online orders as well.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

Payment scheme providers must consider how to encourage adoption, especially if operating in countries lacking a government mandate for financial institutions (FIs) to sign on. according to Steve Ledford, TCH’s senior vice president of Product Strategy and Development. That [arrangement] was never going to fly in the U.S.”.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For example, at present, return on equity performance is about 12% for the average community bank. What does matter is strategy. A Better Way: The Waterfall of Strategy Almost every bank that is in the top decile of top performing bank has a clear strategic intent. Banks consistently produce under their cost of capital.

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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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

New payment and financial technologies are quickly emerging from the FinTech community, all with the promise of expediting payments and reducing the distance between cross-border trading partners. Could APIs, which can help banks quickly assess a company’s risk level, help these FIs invest where no (or very few) players have invested before?

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2015

In recent months, the momentum around reducing the regulatory burden on the nation’s community banks has continued to gain steam. However, the regulatory landscape continues to evolve, leaving resource-constrained community banks to cope with new demands. The second idea is community bank exemption from the Volcker Rule.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 21, 2022

Last week we wrote about loan-level vs. balance sheet hedging for community banks and provided our loan proposal generator ( HERE ). We compared and contrasted the two strategies and sized the market for community banks. We also shared a table that summarized the two strategies. Why Community Banks Use Loan-Level Hedging.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

This is the area of expertise for marine biologists such as Karen Rivara, who owns and operates Aeros Cultured Oyster Company on the northern shore of Long Island. She is also a member of the Noank Agriculture Cooperative , which includes all elements of the oyster hatching and farming community on the Long Island side of the sound.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

These are just a few examples of how I’ve been able to give back to the community in ways that are personal to me, and that’s something that’s true across Perficient. Our colleagues are incredibly active in giving back to their communities in meaningful ways that are personal to them. Luke’s Hospital continue to grow and evolve.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Community bankers need to understand their competitive landscape. Who the competition is, what the lending competition is offering, their delivery channels, and service levels can help community banks differentiate their services and enhance their competitive advantage.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

And yet, sometimes community banks, opt to stick to their lending knitting, forfeiting the potential to earn non-interest revenue and cementing their ties with both individual and corporate customers. The community banking model is based on customer relationships and the allocation of capital and extending loans.

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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). This strategy may create some other strategic and credit risks. We want to highlight this option with a case study.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 4, 2018

-based financial institution that services companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, are updating 47 of the CU’s banking products and services. The revamping of the tech stack is a part of what the credit union has coined its “Omnichannel 2.0” Specific initiatives include reduced application abandonment […].

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A financial institution’s Banking-as-a-Service strategy needs to be more than an extra credit project for the I.T. Early adopters are earning prestige while investors and a hoard of community banks explore the opportunity to tap into this new source of revenue. Now is the time to create a BaaS strategy. department.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 17, 2020

That included looking inwards to identify internal operating models and biases that may have inadvertently been impeding business goals and objectives. This is where the ‘strategy’ part comes into play. Strategy is nothing more than a high level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

As consumers’ changing preferences prompt community banks to deliver new technologies, here are some of the top trends to keep your eye on. Let’s look at a few of these trends, how community banks can determine if they’re right for them and how to get on board. By Mary Yerkes. are now contactless. Trend 2: Digitization of B2B payments.

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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. FedNow is obviously going to change the landscape for us, and I think it’s going to accelerate [digital development] for community banks,” Lakoumentas says.

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