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Community Banks Embrace Faster Payments’ Competitive Edge

PYMNTS

Community banks are pushing for a stronger role with their small business (SMB) customers. However, through an embrace of FinTech collaboration and industry consolidation, community banks appear poised to further dispel assumptions of a lack of digitization. has dropped from 8,000 in 2004 to about 5,400 in 2018.

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How Crowdfunding Aims To Fill SMBs’ Community Banking Gaps

PYMNTS

Community banks are often the familiar faces of the financial services world, and when small businesses seek capital, their neighborhood financial institution can be a promising place to start. While they continue to play an important role in small business financing, the community banking market is drastically shrinking in the U.S.

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Higher Rates – Faster for Longer

South State Correspondent

Jun 2004 – Jun 2006. Application to Community Banks. While we broke down the seven waves of impact that banks need to be concerned about across the enterprise ( HERE ), there are several immediate risks from inflation and persistently rising interest rates for community banks. Time Period.

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How The Fed Will Impact Your Deposit Beta

South State Correspondent

In our previous article ( HERE ), we reviewed the banking industry’s cost of funding earning assets (COF), and we compared how community banks’ COF behaves relative to national banks in a rising interest rate cycle. How to Apply to Your Bank. Influences on Deposit Beta.

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The banks serving active duty personnel

Independent Banker

Under Larry Wilson’s leadership, First Arkansas Bank and Trust’s branch on the Little Rock Air Force Base was named the 2020 Air Force Bank of the Year. Community banks operate on a majority of the country’s military installations. Community banks comprise more than two-thirds of the 66 banks operating on U.S.

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Why Banks Merge: Listen to the Sellers

Jeff For Banks

September 2004, driving from a meeting in New York, on the grossly miss-titled Cross Bronx Expressway, Nathan Stovall, a reporter from SNL Financial gave me a call. The question: What was up with an upstate New York bank? The angry phone call I later received from a bank director was well deserved. "Our Our combination.

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Springboard to Excellence

Independent Banker

imberly Anderson, senior vice president and chief administrative officer of Cañon National Bank in southern Colorado, became her community bank’s loan compliance officer in 2003. In early 2004, examiners visited her $253 million-asset bank, an experience that revealed a need—someone with a stronger compliance background. “I