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Community Banks Debut FinTech Alliance

PYMNTS

To that end, news came earlier this week in the United States that a dozen community and regional banks have formed a group aimed at exploring the opportunities amid FinTech offerings. Among the names joining up are Citizens & Northern Bank (based in Pennsylvania), Inland Bank (Illinois) and Lincoln Savings Bank (Iowa).

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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

September 1st, 1999, regulators from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, at the behest of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, descended on a small coal mining town in Keystone, West Virginia. Clearly, blue-suit regulators stood out. The Bank's Rise McConnell came to the bank in 1977 from McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

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Book Report: The Unbanking of America by Lisa Servon

Jeff For Banks

Professor of city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania. For example, the securitizing of the residential lending business moved most of that business away from banks to mortgage bankers and brokers, that far and away were the culprits behind preying on the underbanked. Didn't see that coming.

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Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: #3 ESB Financial Corporation

Jeff For Banks

Neither supported this regional president''s opinion. The rest of this post goes to our number 3 bank: #3: ESB Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: ESBF) of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania ESB started in 1915 as the Ellwood Federal Savings and Loan in Ellwood City. ESB operates like many other thrifts. The first bullet is very telling.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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THE 16TH ANNUAL GONZOBANKER AWARDS

Gonzobanker

Maybe a regulator was out sick or on maternity leave, but this is one crawling bureaucratic nightmare. Mergerama Region of the Year – The Midwest: Huntington-First Merit, Chemical-Talmer, Old National-Anchor … the list goes on. Or the need to take market share in a slowest growth region? Is it in the water?

Utah 60
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THE 16TH ANNUAL GONZOBANKER AWARDS

Gonzobanker

Maybe a regulator was out sick or on maternity leave, but this is one crawling bureaucratic nightmare. Mergerama Region of the Year – The Midwest: Huntington-First Merit, Chemical-Talmer, Old National-Anchor … the list goes on. Or the need to take market share in a slowest growth region? Is it in the water?

Utah 60