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Community Bank Outlook: Challenges and Opportunities in 2021 and Beyond

Abrigo

Takeaway 2 Community banks are at a crossroads: innovate or be left behind (or acquired). Economy , supervisory and risk specialists from the Federal Reserve of Kansas outline top challenges and opportunities regarding the future of community banking. Community banks are critical to ag lending and small business lending.

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Credit Card Interest Rates Rise To Near-Record Levels

PYMNTS

prime lending rate, which banks charge to their best credit customers, is now at almost its lowest point ever due to Federal Reserve monetary policy. Despite some previous pushback, the Fed, represented by Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President and Chief Executive Officer Esther L. Bloomberg is reporting that the U.S.

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Onward Financial’s Employer-Backed Payday Loan Alternative

PYMNTS

I think it is pretty obvious when you read stories about the payday lending industry – and how it goes wrong for customers – that consumers need a better alternative,” Onward Financial Founder Ronnie Washington said. In an effort to innovate a solution to these cash flow challenges, Washington founded Onward Financial.

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Why AI Risk Tech And Banks Could Be A Match Made In Heaven

PYMNTS

A solution, he told PYMNTS four years ago , that had nothing to do with financial services or lending at all — they were actually studying hiring and figuring out ways to track employability over time with data. Our simple idea was that better technology and better data science could improve access to credit,” Girouard said.

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Branch Transformation: Innovating to be Nimble

Banking 2020

Innovation requires understanding your client base and providing differentiated services that clients will find value in. Banks must innovate and be nimble to address emerging client needs in the neighborhoods they serve. There are silos between banking services – front line services and lending, not to mention wealth management.

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Acquire or Be Acquired 2023: Disruption ‘Comes Home’ to Banking

Gonzobanker

While AOBA provides a fertile forum for buyers and potential sellers in the bank M&A space to commensurate, the crowd uses this valuable face time to also delve into discussions about the economy, strategic growth, fintech innovation, competition, and talent wars.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

According to the CFPB, the new members “include experts in consumer protection, financial services, community development, fair lending, civil rights, consumer financial products or services, representatives of community banks and credit unions, and scholars with relevant methodological and subject matter experience.”