South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Over the last few years we have published various articles on the pros and cons of commercial loan prepayment provisions, how those prepay provisions impact marketing and sales, loan prepayment speeds, and the relationship between prepayment provisions and customer return on equity (ROE) (some of the recent articles are here , here , and here ).

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Abrigo

JUNE 28, 2024

Rising-rate environment Planning ALM strategies In today's volatile economic landscape, managing interest rate risk has become a top priority for community banks. The market has seen significant fluctuations, and with the Federal Reserve's recent actions, the banking sector is experiencing unprecedented challenges.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2021

How can community financial institutions thrive in 2021? Community banks provide unique and important banking services for their customers, but they also face significant obstacles. Takeaway 1 Community banks play an important role in the economy and their communities, but they face significant obstacles.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Illustration by The Laundry Room/Stocksy Customer data fuels efficient and effective marketing these days. Community banks own an enviable amount of data, but not all are leveraging it to its fullest extent. By Mindy Charski People share important data about themselves with their community bank in myriad ways.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

This year’s winners: Left: Central Valley Community Bank, People’s Choice Award; Middle: Kennebec Savings Bank, Exceptional Community Bank Service Award; Right: Cross River Bank, Emerging Service Program Award. Exceptional Community Bank Service Award. Instead, we give those dollars to the community.”. Asset size: $1.36

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. Clearly, community banks in the region have plenty of opportunities to do what they do best: forge deep and lasting relationships with their customers and communities. These include family-owned businesses, community businesses and operating companies.

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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The AOCI is an accounting adjustment meant to reflect the economic value of assets and is the process of “marking loans to market.” In this article, we explore what signals marking your loans to market might send. However, the public markets were another story. Capital got scarce.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Last week, the American Banking Association (ABA) held its annual Bank Marketing Conference in Denver, receiving rave reviews. The theme was – developing your marketing superpowers. Amid the brewery networking, superhero costumes, and fun, some fantastic bank marketing lessons were had, and not just for bank marketers.

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Community banking has almost achieved Kleenex or Xerox fame, being generalized to the point of meaninglessness. And the dilution of what it means to be a community bank has been diminished not just by interlopers pretending to be sheep in wolf's clothing, but also regulators, and unfortunately, community banks themselves.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Philadelphia.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 11, 2024

For the community banking industry (banks under $10B in assets), this is particularly troubling as the number of community banks earning negative return on equity (ROE) spiked to 237 institutions in Q1/24, or 5.71% of all community banks. We analyzed the Q1/24 performance of community banks (4.3k

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South State Correspondent

JULY 30, 2023

How should community banks target and compare their ROE to the industry and their peer group, and what defines a top-performing bank? Community banks (assets under $10B) composed 14.3% Community banks (assets under $10B) composed 14.3% The graph below shows the quarterly ROE for all community banks from 1984 to Q1/2023.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Community Capital Technologies, Denizen Financial, Diro Inc., The 12 startups demoing to try to win the “best in show” award at Bank Innovation Ignite have been unveiled. The startups are:[link] Avocado Payments, Budgit Inc., Exagens Corp., Fintel Labs, iGTB, JUDI.AI, KapitalWise, OpenDoor Securities, and Operant.AI

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Community Financial Services Bank, Benton, Ky.; In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. Clockwise from top left: Grand Ridge National Bank, Wheaton, Ill.; Bank of Montana, Missoula, Mont.;

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In August, we surveyed 154 marketing executives to find out what they think is likely to happen this holiday season and how they’re preparing for it. I’m the Principal for the Digital Marketing Solutions Business Unit here at Perficient. What will be different this holiday season and how to adjust your strategy accordingly.

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Bobsguide

JULY 2, 2020

As the US startup community celebrates the recent Volcker Rule reform, some worry the change could impair the banking system as it recovers from recent market volatility. Sankar Krishnan, executive vice president and industry head, banking and capital markets at Capgemini, is.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 19, 2024

That is exactly what is happening in the community bank industry. In Q2/24, community banks (those under $10B in assets) were able to expand net interest margin (NIM) by 3bps but experienced a 12bps reduction in return on equity (ROE). We’ll explain why we believe this is occurring and ways that community banks can reverse this trend.

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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

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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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

Businesses of a certain size — and in industries as varied as construction and restaurants — know the pain of wondering if they will have enough capital to fund operations, inventory, expansion and other mission-critical business activities. For loans made via the Working Capital operation, the new money tends to support inventory.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Community bankers need to understand their competitive landscape. Who the competition is, what the lending competition is offering, their delivery channels, and service levels can help community banks differentiate their services and enhance their competitive advantage.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 4, 2023

If you want to grab a material amount of new deposit balance, offer a 5.05% money market rate, post it all over Instagram, and sit back and watch the money roll in. In this article, we will show you 15 proven deposit marketing campaigns that will rack up deposit-gathering wins while building a high-performing bank in the process.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

As reported , Walmart is working with Ribbit Capital to create an as-yet unnamed FinTech that would, the companies said on Monday (Jan. The notion of scaling into the markets may indeed be gaining traction. For Walmart, FinTechs are in sight — but where to from here?

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Independent Banker ’s annual Community Bank CEO Outlook survey reveals how community bank leaders plan to leverage today’s deposit-laden banking environment to grow this year. Janet Silveria, Community Bank of Santa Maria. So, what’s at the top of community bank leaders’ to-do lists? What changes will 2022 bring?

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In Q2/24 the average return of asset (ROA) for community banks (under $10B in assets) was 1.08%. But within the community banking sector, performance varied among banks significantly and a large swath of banks need to improve ROA. of community banks reported negative ROA. While the average ROA was 1.08%, approximately 5.7%

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 6, 2025

Example of a Credit Tenant Loan A community bank that we work with was lamenting that the competition was undercutting pricing on a CTL by about 10 to 20bps (depending on the term shown). Neither our community bank nor the competitor was properly analyzing this credit opportunity.

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Perficient

APRIL 13, 2022

For example, let’s take a look at a marketing use case currently being employed by entrepreneur Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA Dallas Mavericks Basketball team. At the end of the game, the club burns the unused NFTs, thereby making them rare and instantly codifying a small community of NFT owners who share a unique experience.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 18, 2017

Barry Corbett: So far this year, 85 new cryptocurrencies have been launched, bitcoin has traded within a whisper of $3,000, and the market capital of cryptocurrencies has surged to more than $100 bn, from $15 bn. What other global themes should investors be aware of when dealing with the cryptocurrency market? What’s going on?

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Abrigo

APRIL 22, 2024

Recent dynamics of the small business lending market A deep understanding of the small business lending landscape and potential efficiencies can help banks and credit unions grow their portfolios. Dynamic market Small business lending by banks & credit unions Small businesses are a pillar of the U.S. trillion between 2019 and 2022.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Venture capital appears to be picking back up in the B2B technology startup community. This week saw an impressive $324 million in combined funding for a range of B2B FinTechs and other solution providers, including alternative lenders looking to support small businesses as they manage working capital instability. eFileCabinet.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Businesses' working capital cycles are longer. In conversations with community banks and credit unions across the country, we’re hearing about a significant increase in line utilization, raising questions about both liquidity and credit risk. Companies need more working capital, but they’re still paying their suppliers as they should.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In an article last week ( Here ), we discussed how the higher-for-longer interest rate environment will affect the community bank sector. We argued that community banks must learn to improve performance in a low-growth environment for the foreseeable future. This is especially important when liquidity is scarce, as it is now.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Government-backed loan schemes like the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) connected vital capital to small- to medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ) in need of aid to stay afloat. While helpful, the availability of affordable financing for SMBs is not necessarily typical of a market in which smaller firms can struggle to access funding.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Farfetch will use the capital to continue growing and expanding into new markets, particularly China. Tencent is helping the company reach the market through its WeChat platform. “We We look forward to the company’s continued execution on its strategic vision to take the business to the next level.”.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 5, 2024

The typical published analysis considers the industry in aggregate which conflates the challenges and opportunities at community banks (those under $10B in assets). Second, much of the increase in COF for community banks is the result of shrinking non-interest bearing DDA being replaced with higher cost CDs (see graph below).

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 5, 2024

In this article, we will consider how and why loan size is one of the most significant drivers of profitability for community banks and what community banks can do to improve performance. Cross-sell opportunities, especially demand deposits in today’s market, can double the ROA/ROE on an average-sized commercial loan.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 5, 2024

In this article, we will consider how and why loan size is one of the most significant drivers of profitability for community banks and what community banks can do to improve performance. Cross-sell opportunities, especially demand deposits in today’s market, can double the ROA/ROE on an average-sized commercial loan.

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