Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

An event at EMS in June brought together (L–R) Clear Mountain Bank president/CEO Dave Thomas, ICBA president Rebeca Romero Rainey, FHLBank Pittsburgh president/CEO Winthrop Watson, and Tim Critchfield, EMS owner/president. Name: Clear Mountain Bank. Consider, for example, its commercial lending approach. By Mindy Charski.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Here’s what community banks need to know about these products and how they can take advantage of this model. Emerging as the latest form of point-of-sale (POS) lending, BNPL introduces new ways for consumers to make purchases and spread out their payments. BNPL: The community bank play. By Colleen Morrison.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Experts say community banks can use education, biometrics and solid cybersecurity practices to fight this growing area of crime. Say a scammer calls a community bank customer and gains their trust by using information obtained from a major data breach. By Elizabeth Judd. Examples of remote authentication fraud.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Susan Riel succeeded Ronald Paul as CEO of the Maryland bank shortly before questions surfaced about credit quality and lending practices.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Fallout from recent global events presents an obstacle to generating revenue for community banks. It’s certainly an interesting time to be a community bank, but there are still plenty of ways to make efficiencies with an eye on profitability. ? But one of the biggest problems in community banking today is a fear of risk.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Robust online mortgage websites embrace today’s lending challenges as well as consumer needs. When Community Bank of Bergen County unveiled its online mortgage hub this summer, the bank put “ease of use” at the top of its goals for the site, says President and CEO Peter Michelotti. “I By Elizabeth Judd.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

With vigor and a strong commitment to service, Ron Paul leads a rapidly growing community bank in Maryland. Bank assets: $5 billion. Ronald Paul first encountered community banking as a real estate developer in the early 1980s. He became an enthusiastic advocate of relationship-based banking.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

Me to a community banker: Why don't you offer more options than real estate secured lending to help fund early stage businesses? Banker: Because that's not community banking. I've been in this business over 20 years and still don't know the definition of community banking. I've got news for you.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 26, 2016

Schwanhausser suggests that motivating online activities or games that help customers meet savings, investing and other money management goals—or perhaps understand more about banking, entrepreneurship or protecting personal information identity theft—can help build a financial safety net and lend themselves to game technology quite nicely.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. I want to read to you the FDIC’s conclusion from their An Examination of the Banking Crisis of the 1980’s and Early 1990’s. Who would’ve thought lending $1 million to a San Francisco cab driver to buy a house at 100% loan to value would go bad? Remember K Bank in Maryland?

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The Internet of Things, also known as the Industrial Internet, is where networked smart devices communicate to powerfully automate a multitude of complex tasks for both consumers and businesses, potentially including community banks. Both scenarios would communicate possible financial needs of the bank and its customers. “If

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American Banker

JANUARY 24, 2020

The company, which sold the business to a group of former employees, will shut down its operation this quarter.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

That dynamic provides a unique opportunity for individual community bankers to tell their stories to their federal lawmakers, which has always been a vital part of getting ICBA’s pro-community banking legislative agenda enacted. As an example, “If X goes into effect, it would decrease my mortgage lending by X percent.”.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 19, 2015

through its subsidiary BNC National Bank, offers community banking and wealth management services in Arizona, Minnesota, and North Dakota from 16 locations. It also conducts mortgage banking from 12 offices in Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, Arizona, and North Dakota. What a ride! #3. BNCCORP, Inc.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Digital banking solutions for community banks and credit unions. A turnkey solution incorporating CRM, invoicing and payments into a simple solution for the business delivered through the bank’s digital banking solution. An industry leader in lending and benchmarking solutions for financial institutions.

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