South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

An inverted yield curve, continued bank failures, and the desire to manage risk and offer clients higher service are all factors that are driving more community banks to adopt a loan hedge program. Community banks’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 7, 2024

We recently worked with a community bank in the Southeast that wanted to win a piece of credit business for a manufacturing company. The manufacturing company had a long-time relationship with a national bank and the community bank lender was struggling to make inroads with the company’s CEO and owner. regulatory ROE. regulatory ROE.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2019

An app meant to promote community for baby boomers called Umbrella has raised $5 million in a seed round led by Thrive Capital, with participation from Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs, Refactor Capital, Trailmix, Box Group and others. The startup was co-founded by CEO Lindsay Ullman and President Sam Gerstenzang.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

We built Whatnot not just to enable transactions, but to capture the fun of the in-person experience, so our communities can connect in real time and geek out with their favorite sellers,” he added. Whatnot facilitates peer-to-peer connections between enthusiasts.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 23, 2022

Customers and competitors are challenging community banks to extend loan duration – borrowers are eager to lock fixed rates before they rise further, and many competitors are happy to oblige. But what are the optimal fixed terms for community banks given today’s interest rate, credit, and liquidity environment?

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Investment compliance and regulatory requirements can pose operational challenges regardless of institution size, from community banks under $10 billion in assets to large, multinational firms. Daily, real-time investment results that allow banks, credit unions, and REITs to close their books faster at month-end.

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TheGuardian

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Companies may claim to serve employees, communities and the planet – but two books show profit still comes first American CEOs are a self-assured bunch but it takes a certain level of hubris to conclude that your skills making money and climbing the corporate ladder also equip you to solve social and environmental challenges.

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Abrigo

MARCH 31, 2025

Kirby cited FDIC statistics showing nearly three-quarters of community banks require three or more levels of approval, regardless of the loan size. It also means removing ritualistic contentsuch as unnecessary analysis of debt service coverage for a working capital linewhen it doesnt directly relate to how the loan will be repaid.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest B2B FinTech venture capital funding rounds. million Series A investment led by Framework Venture Partners, while PenderFund Capital Management, Conconi Growth Partners and Royal Bank of Canada also participated. In Canada, Checkfront revealed its $9.3 FinCompare.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Some Context Around Maturity and Amortization Currently, we estimate that the average community bank’s commercial loan term is between 3.5 We use time studies and risk-adjusted-return-on-capital models to help us answer this question. But what is the optimal term for maturity and amortization with regard to credit?

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This development is very important to community banks, as their efficiency ratio also increased, but to 61.63%. However, we believe that community banks should consider a different strategy since community banks’ much higher efficiency ratio results from a different driver.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 19, 2024

In a future article we will discuss how community bankers may structure their commercial loan products to maximize cross-selling and upsell opportunities. With proper tools and strategies, community bankers can upsell and cross-sell their products to maximize profitability. In banking, those numbers are markedly different.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk. Flutterwave.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

In community banking, we’re not ones to rest on our laurels. We’re always raising the bar for ourselves, our teams and our communities to ensure we provide the best possible services to our customers. Brad Bolton is president and CEO of Community Spirit Bank in Red Bay, Ala. I am a firm believer in education.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Two-thirds (66 percent) of SMBs expected to see their revenues grow beyond — even well beyond — what they had booked in 2019. We went into the field last Wednesday (March 24) to understand, at an aggregate level, how COVID-19 has impacted the SMBs that line the Main Streets and the side streets of our communities.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 3, 2023

Despite reaching the highest profitability in over a decade in 2022, US banks overall trade at a discount to other sectors as measured by P/E or P/Book, and approximately 53% of US banks have earned less than their cost of equity over the last five years.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Booking long-term fixed-rate loans on-balance-sheet may not make sense for many banks. While community banks may want the ability to offer longer-term fixed-rate loans, the interest rate risk is too significant for most banks’ balance sheets. ARC is custom designed to allow community banks to compete anywhere on the yield curve.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This means having processes and people in place for bringing in borrowers, identifying the right loans to book, pricing them correctly, and closing loans quickly and efficiently enough to meet customer needs and institutional goals. Book more loans with a faster turnaround. learn more. Survey: Repetitive data entry common.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Community bankers need to practice realistic loan pricing discipline. However, we need to understand the meaning of pricing discipline and its effect on community bank performance. The reality of booking new loan business is that the winning bank has offered the lowest price or most accommodating credit structure.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In a week of multiple nine-figure venture capital funding rounds, B2B FinTech has proved it plans to end the year on a high note. Investors from IVP, Madrona Venture Group and Meritech Capital all joined the fold, while existing backers CapitalG and Sequoia Capital led the round. Automation Anywhere.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 6, 2022

Change 1: Cost of Capital and Capital Allocation. Back in 2020, banks’ capital cost was at a record low as it averaged a little under 6% for the industry. Now, the cost of capital has been up 44% since then. Below is our current weighted cost of capital for different-sized banks.

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Abrigo

APRIL 25, 2024

The negative correlation of funded business loans to the Fed funds rate is a staggering 86% as businesses weigh their needs for capital against expensive debt and lenders aim to limit risk. Almost half sought credit to grow their businesses, and 28% applied to make repairs or replace capital assets.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

The company also offers SMBs different tools to help them move forward, like appointment booking, loyalty services and marketing help. SpotOn had a strong 2019 and wants to capitalize on its momentum by expanding further. The company’s previous funding round was less than a year ago and it was led by Dragoneer and Franklin.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 26, 2011

B+ This book, written by a journalist and former editor of Fortune magazine and editorial director of Harvard Business Publishing, tracks the growth and philosophical evolution of strategy. This book tracks the evolution of strategy from its early days in the 1960''s at BCG to where we are today. Here is what I liked about the book: 1.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I call this "pulling into the pits" in my book: Squared Away-How Can Bankers Succeed as Economic First Responders. Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. By way of comparison, we do a quarterly flip book for Massachusetts that shows all MA banks cost of funds was 2.48%. There they are.

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Abrigo

APRIL 21, 2020

PPP loans carry a 0% risk weighting, meaning they don’t count against the institution from a risk-based capital standpoint. With the surge in loans and no pressure on capital ratios, both Domine and Bates expressed approval for the program.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 20, 2023

2022 will go down as one of the worst years for community bank loan mispricing when viewed on a spread basis. Rapidly rising rates crushed performance as many banks held a fixed rate constant and/or booked a fixed rate loan at a misguided level. This asymmetric pricing explains why many community banks go terminal during a downturn.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Many community banks today are willing to underwrite real estate secured loans on just two metrics: debt-service-coverage ratio (DSCR) and loan-to-appraised value (LTV). Furthermore, community banks should embrace one additional metric that national banks have used to measure the health of their real estate portfolios – debt yield.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

What happens if Main Street becomes less a proving ground for smaller businesses — born of, and serving, local communities — and more a collection of larger firms, well-capitalized, but already enjoying competitive advantages? Millions of smaller businesses are grappling with the impacts of the pandemic.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 22, 2023

In a previous article ( here ), we discussed why commercial loan prepayment protection would be a critical return on asset (ROA) driver for community banks in 2023. One of the easiest ways to increase loan profitability is to recognize (not just book) longer credits. This cost to the bank is shown in the graph below.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2019

An app meant to promote community for baby boomers called Umbrella has raised $5 million in a seed round led by Thrive Capital, with participation from Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs, Refactor Capital, Trailmix, Box Group and others. The startup was co-founded by CEO Lindsay Ullman and President Sam Gerstenzang.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 26, 2013

Or, the rapid pace of technological change and the sophistication of hackers requires resources not found in small community banks. see The Coming Bank Consolidation ) Community bank investors used to be the local insurance agent, mortician, and family that sits next to us in church. There is truth to conventional wisdom. respectively.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Investors continue to fuel the growth of the B2B technology startup community with another busy week in funding. Despite a slowdown in corporate travel, expense management and travel booking technology provider SalesTrip still managed to impress investors, which pumped $1.4 PYMNTS rounds up all the latest deals below. Modern Treasury.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 3, 2023

The second article compared and contrasted community banks’ pay-for-risk and relationship business models. Top-performing community banks deploy relationship banking. Many community banks state that they embrace and promote relationship banking.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

Blockchain Capital. Blockchain heavyweight Ripple made headlines this week when it announced a $25 million investment in Blockchain Capital, a venture capital firm focused on backing blockchain startups. The funding comes in the form of Ripple’s own cryptocurrency and will be used to fund startups selected by Blockchain Capital.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

Because many banks are now producing below their cost of capital, growth further exacerbates their issues and drives them out of business (likely through a sale) faster. Without the windfall of profit accrued to banks in 2022 because of faster-than-expected rate increases, banks will need to be better allocators of capital.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In fact, Head Blockchain Engineer Stan James at decentralized blockchain marketplace provider Origin told PYMNTS in a recent conversation that the central locus of the pre-digital gig economy was the community bulletin board. The firm has raised $3 million in Seed token sale funding from Pantera Capital and another $6.6

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