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5 Reasons Your Financial Institution Should Attend ThinkBIG 2021

Abrigo

The 2021 ThinkBIG conference will bring together the “Fighting Financial Crime” and “Manage Risk. The FinCrime track will focus on BSA/AML and fraud detection topics, while the Credit + Lending track will cover topics on managing credit risk and making smarter loans, faster. Lending & Credit Risk. SBA Lending.

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Credit unions continue to see growth in auto lending

Abrigo

Overall auto lending at credit unions is up more than 30 percent in recent years, a positive sign that CUs remain competitive in an evolving banking landscape. Utilizing the Sageworks Bank Information platform, Sageworks recently examined how steadily auto lending at credit unions – specifically for new vehicles – grew in 2014.

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How CFIs Can Remain Relationship-Focused in a Digital World

Abrigo

The PPP might have been the first time many community financial institutions saw such clear returns on digitization investments, but the same automation and efficiency gains can be found in other end-to-end lending solutions. Community financial institutions' experience with PPP technology also translates to other areas of lending.

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How CFIs Can Remain Relationship-Focused in a Digital World

Abrigo

The PPP might have been the first time many community financial institutions saw such clear returns on digitization investments, but the same automation and efficiency gains can be found in other end-to-end lending solutions. Community financial institutions' experience with PPP technology also translates to other areas of lending.

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Budget Surplus? 5 Ways to Invest in Your Financial Institution with This Year’s Excess Budget

Abrigo

Using information from the core deposit study, bank or credit union management better understands depositor behavior and has critical information to develop pricing strategies and manage funding costs. You can also incorporate the results into the asset/liability management model and develop stress testing scenarios down the road.

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Community banks are thriving in Texas

Independent Banker

With the record growth of San Antonio, Houston and Austin, southern Texas is becoming a hub for business. increase, while the San Antonio metro, up 19.4%, ranked 12th. Those in south central Texas, which includes San Antonio, supported an estimated 211,000 jobs and contributed nearly $25.2 By Mindy Charski.

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On Spreadsheet Day 2019, Celebrate the App, But Acknowledge Its Limitations

Abrigo

The Bank of San Antonio, for example, was growing quickly and realized that automating the ALLL and stress testing made sense in order to get bigger. Even Dalgleish says Spreadsheet Day is a day to celebrate “the joys and challenges of working with spreadsheets.” Credit Risk. Portfolio Risk & CECL. Learn More.