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BOK Financial touts a bright 2024 lending outlook

American Banker

The Oklahoma-based regional bank expects 6%-7% loan growth in the year ahead. Executives are also projecting that net interest income will start to improve after the metric hits a trough early this year.

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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. LendingTree. Fresno First Bank.

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Creating a Customer-Centric, Digital Financial Institution

Abrigo

Once only accessible to large financial institutions and digital-only banks, today’s technology affords smaller financial institutions the opportunity to level the playing field by automating the lending process to get money in customers’ hands sooner. Technology, like banking, isn’t “one-size-fits-all.”

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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. New energy regions adapt. By Howard Schneider.

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The Case For Localizing Mom-And-Pop Investment

PYMNTS

“Being in Boston, Massachusetts, I’m much less likely to invest in a restaurant in Oklahoma if the same business was right next to me,” Mathews said. In this effort, the platform is turning to regional and national economic development organizations to promote education on both sides.

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M&T Unit, Other Lenders Seek $500M from Oil CEO's Estate

American Banker

Several lenders are attempting to recover a combined total of nearly $500 million from the estate of the deceased chief executive of an Oklahoma energy company.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

In order to compete as a small bank, we have been forced to keep higher-than-peer capital levels, so that our lending limit allows us to service local borrowers’ needs. Oklahoma City. Genesee Regional Bank. Philip Pecora, president and CEO, Genesee Regional Bank. Genesee Regional Bank. Chickasaw Community Bank.