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From CRE to Corporate Culture – BIG Ideas from 2020 ThinkBIG: Manage Risk. Drive Growth.

Abrigo

The banking industry has faced many challenges in 2020, from transitioning to CECL, managing Paycheck Protection Program loans, and navigating an unprecedented economic recession. More than 500 banking professionals across the country gathered for a two-day 2020 ThinkBIG: Manage Risk. Plan for new technology and innovations.

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FinTechs Take A Regional Approach To SMB COVID-19 Relief

PYMNTS

Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest solutions that FinTechs and lenders are developing to ease the PPP lending process for SMBs and FIs alike, with many initiatives focused on enabling regional and community banks to maintain a competitive edge against the biggest banks. Citizens Bank Of Edmond. Lendsmart, Griffin Technologies. In the U.K.,

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Are de novos making a comback?

Abrigo

For perspective, a mere 4 banks have opened since 2011, and two of those were in 2017 alone: both International Bank of Commerce of Oklahoma City, OK, and Blue Gate Bank of Costa Mesa, CA, opened in January 2017. Monk writes that there were 6 applications for deposit insurance in 2016.

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CFPB announces advisory committee members

CFPB Monitor

Nikitra Bailey, EVP, Center for Responsible Lending (Durham, NC). Nadine Cohen, Managing Attorney, Greater Boston Legal Services (Boston, MA). Ronette Hauser-Jones, Mortgage Division President, Great Plains Bank (Oklahoma City, OK). Mae Watson Grote, Founder and CEO, The Financial Clinic (Brooklyn, NY).

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What Goes Up …

Independent Banker

Coping just fine, community banks in energy-producing regions manage the oil-price plunge. Texas and Oklahoma banks “got killed in the mid-1980s,” he says. Happy State Bank’s 32 offices are spaced over 500 miles, giving the bank’s lending portfolio geographic diversity. By Howard Schneider. Pat Hickman, Happy State Bank.

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DOJ settles another redlining case

CFPB Monitor

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it has entered into a settlement with American Bank of Oklahoma (ABOK) to resolve allegations that ABOK engaged in unlawful redlining in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The DOJ opened its investigation of ABOK after receiving a referral from the FDIC.

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For Ag Lenders, Farm Outlook Warrants Watching

Abrigo

farmers is even more unpredictable than in recent years, so financial institutions will want to keep a close eye on the agricultural sector -- both to protect ag lending portfolios and tap into ag loan growth opportunities. Stay up to date on the farm outlook and ag lending best practices. Ag Lending. Lending & Credit Risk.