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4 ways to get more out of your core

Independent Banker

Not keeping up with a core vendor’s releases can also be costly to a community bank if it doesn’t leverage them, as releases often provide critical and important regulatory, compliance and feature function updates, says Maria Schuld, division executive, Americas Banking Solutions at FIS, which is headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla.

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Community Bank CEO Outlook 2022: Your priorities for the new year

Independent Banker

To counter such competition, the $186 million-asset community bank plans to hire another lender to seek deals across the state, sticking to smaller towns and avoiding the saturated Milwaukee and Madison, Wis., Planning for increased compliance costs. Ponce Bank, a $1.5 Click to enlarge. David Fura, SVP, head of card payments, FIS.