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Using digital lending helps to reach small businesses

Independent Banker

Digital lending capabilities are quickly becoming table stakes, particularly when it comes to small business lending. However, banks should first consider their customers’ needs and the infrastructure and features needed in a lending platform before adopting a new digital strategy. Benefits of digital lending.

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How to Become an SBA Lender for the CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program

Abrigo

Speed is the operative word; applications for the emergency capital can begin as early as this week, with lenders using their own systems and processes to make these loans. The link to the form on the Treasury Department website was operable for a time Tuesday, then was not working later. Lending & Credit Risk. SBA Lending.

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At home with HOA banking

Independent Banker

It provides a wide range of financial solutions for business and individuals, including commercial and business banking, treasury management, and mortgage services. We were looking at ways to increase our deposit base and impact the communities we serve,” says Tom Kientz, chief operating officer. Academy Bank in Kansas City, Mo.,

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Growing a new branch

Independent Banker

Providence Bank chose to open a new brick-and-mortar site during the pandemic, when many other businesses were ceasing operations or shutting down altogether. In the first round of PPP lending, it granted 220 loans totaling $17 million, and in the second round, 170 loans totaling nearly $13 million. “As By Ed Avis.

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Spilling Business Beans

Independent Banker

Treasury program that’s the well-kept secret in small-business lending. The company had strong management and was growing quickly, but as a young company, its historic cash flow did not support the proposed expansion. In Illinois, a loan participation plan by a community bank “insourced” jobs to the local area from overseas.

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2021’s Best Community Banks to Work For

Independent Banker

Within that tightly knit group, there’s the bank’s leadership team, comprising president and CEO Greg Dennis, chief lending officer Jon Girard, vice president of operations and compliance Kristine Hendrickson, and executive vice president and chief financial officer Michele Boeder. Greg Dennis, Key Community Bank. “We Pascagoula, Miss.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

But as they always do, they came through for individuals and businesses in their communities with a combination of personalized service and prudent risk management practices. Here, we highlight some of last year’s most successful loan producers in the areas of agriculture, commercial and consumer/mortgage lending. By Ed Avis.