Long Lasting Ideas

APRIL 11, 2016

Usually, we at BankMarketingCenter.com don’t hand out kudos to individual bankers, but an exception must be made in the case of Independent and Community Banks of America (ICBA) President and CEO Camden Fine for his articulate defense of small community banks.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

percent through 2028, according to Boston Consulting Group. Nashville community bank Studio Bank was the first FI to adopt the AvidPay solution. The integration means banking customers will gain access to the AvidPay network for streamlined accounts payable (AP). The company announced on Thursday (Dec.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Boston community bank and a fintech called Monit have developed an app that helps small-business owners forecast their cash flow and how certain events could affect them.

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Abrigo

APRIL 1, 2015

A recent Wall Street Journal article by Victoria McGrane and Jon Hilsenrath highlighted how the nation’s regulators are increasingly questioning and turning their focus toward bank boards. These smaller banks have also seen new, and more frequent, attention from regulators.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The combination would create a Northeast regional bank with nearly $24 billion of assets. It would rank as the eighth-largest bank in the Boston metropolitan area by deposit market share.

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American Banker

APRIL 10, 2023

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 11, 2014

According to a 2012 Boston College Center for Retirement Research study , 63% of American males (why only males I do not know) participated exclusively in defined contribution (DC) retirement plans in 2007, up from 47% in 1992. Others use very large financial institutions that can only loosely be called banks.

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American Banker

JANUARY 27, 2021

The investment fund HoldCo Asset Management said the $900 million price tag of the agreement with SVB Financial Group “substantially undervalues” Boston Private Financial Holdings.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Newfangled mobile capabilities could help community banks stand apart from their competitors. And most of the remaining one-quarter of community banks that the Boston Fed surveyed that didn’t yet offer a mobile banking service had planned to offer these baseline features and functionalities by 2016.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Newfangled mobile capabilities could help community banks stand apart from their competitors. And most of the remaining one-quarter of community banks that the Boston Fed surveyed that didn’t yet offer a mobile banking service had planned to offer these baseline features and functionalities by 2016.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Cross River Bank. Though not venture capital, the private equity raised for New Jersey-chartered community bank Cross River Bank is noteworthy not only for its impressive price tag of $100 million, but for its reflection of investors’ support for financial institutions that collaborate with the tech startup scene.

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American Banker

JUNE 22, 2016

billion-asset Boston Private Financial Holdings in Boston. billion-asset company said in a press release Tuesday that it will buy two branches in the California markets of Granada Hills and Burbank from the $7.3

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. So where do ballyhooed mobile banking and payments developments among the biggest players leave community banks?

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2018

If one board member splits time between Florida and Boston, it can hold up approval until that person is available to sign. The FinTech automates invoice management and payment processes for several HOA management companies today, and its recent partnership with Bradenton, Florida-based Premier Community Bank will build on that, Praeger said.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Last week, the CFPB announced the appointment of new members to its advisory committees: Consumer Advisory Board (CAB), Community Bank Advisory Council (CBAC), Credit Union Advisory Council (CUAC), and Academic Research Council (ARC). Nadine Cohen, Managing Attorney, Greater Boston Legal Services (Boston, MA).

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American Banker

JULY 1, 2021

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 27, 2016

“It’s becoming more and more important for community banks to emphasize that they have the same products and services as large banks.” Eric Morse, Needham Bank. Mental cobwebs of outdated perceptions can sometimes be hard for a community bank to shake off. Boston native. Lifelong Boston Bruins fan.

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American Banker

OCTOBER 7, 2024

River Run Bancorp near Boston said it would acquire Rollstone Bank and Trust, adding to a string of industry combinations as M&A activity gathers momentum in the second half of 2024.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

The FedNow Service is launching in early 2023, giving community banks about a year to plan. Here’s how community bankers, payments experts and fintech vendors suggest using the time to prepare. With less than a year until the scheduled launch of the FedNow Service, community banks are still awaiting updates on specifics.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Professional Holding has opened an office close to Boston to make loans to aspiring CEOs — often recent business school graduates — who are looking to buy their first businesses.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

With wire fraud on the rise, community banks have to step up precautions to protect themselves and their customers. They have the money and, in theory, they are vulnerable,” adds Terri Sands, director of payments and fraud prevention for State Bank & Trust in Atlanta, a $3.3 billion-asset community bank.

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American Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Buying North Shore Bancorp in Peabody, Massachusetts, would give Hometown nearly $6 billion of assets and a higher profile in New England.

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American Banker

MAY 26, 2016

Radius Bank in Boston has recruited a team to lead a national push into Small Business Administration lending. Among the new hires is Diane Gallion, a former executive at The Bancorp in Delaware, who will be national director of government-guaranteed lending at Radius.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Radius Bank in Boston has bought a national equipment-finance business from NewStar Financial in Boston.

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American Banker

MAY 24, 2022

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 1, 2019

Courtesy of their Sovereign Bank bailout, ummm… acquisition. I've heard opinions on whether a community bank should buy checking accounts. Sure, the big banks seem to be on the bandwagon. Jeff For Banks readers likely get these offers. One bank controller opens accounts for all offers and gladly takes the cash.

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American Banker

JULY 21, 2016

Boston Private Financial Holdings on Thursday reported a lower second- quarter profit amid broader declines in its wealth management business.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Increasingly, more digitally connected consumers are saying yes to that question with their community bank. Some even assume their bank will interact with them however and whenever they want. For many community banks, telephone calls still generate the highest volumes of customer service interactions.

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American Banker

APRIL 11, 2016

Boston Private Financial Holdings appointed its bank president, George Schwartz, to the newly created position of chief executive of its private banking group.

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American Banker

MAY 6, 2016

Loan growth at several Boston banks, including many former mutuals, is higher than the national average. Still, bankers are closely watching for any indication that a bubble is forming.

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American Banker

MAY 9, 2016

Boston Private Financial Holdings is expanding its footprint in California, opening a new office in Los Angeles on June 1. The company will have 35 offices nationwide, including 14 on the West Coast.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The CFPB announced the appointment of new members to its Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, and Credit Union Advisory Council. New members to the Consumer Advisory Board will serve three-year terms and new members to the Community Bank and Credit Union Advisory Councils will serve two-year terms.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 9, 2017

Eastern Bank in Boston has hired a former Citi Cards executive to oversee its consumer-lending business.

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American Banker

MARCH 5, 2024

Berkshire Hills Bancorp declined to detail the savings it expects from the downsizing, though one analyst estimated it could shave $3 million from the company's annual noninterest expenses.

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American Banker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The combination would create a company with $27 billion of total assets, $18 billion of loans and $22.6 billion of deposits.

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Celent Banking

MAY 31, 2016

While my colleagues were spread out across the US covering conferences in Boston, New Orleans, and other locations, I spent four days in beautiful Barcelona covering the Temenos TCF 2016 Conference , followed by another three days in sunny Orlando covering the FIS Connect 2016 Conference.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2016

The CFPB has announced the appointment of new members to its Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, Credit Union Advisory Council, and Academic Research Council. Chi Chi Wu, Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, MA. Community Bank Advisory Council Members.

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