Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Fallout from recent global events presents an obstacle to generating revenue for community banks. Since COVID-19, profitability planning for community banks has mainly hinged on how the government was coping with the pandemic and the key role financial institutions played in keeping the economy afloat. By Elizabeth Judd.

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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. In 2021, the bank was named West Virginia Community Lender of the Year.

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American Banker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Driver Management, a bank investor, alleges that First United in Maryland made false claims and improperly lobbied lawmakers to keep its nominees off the board. The bank asserts that it acted properly in response to an attempted hostile takeover.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

The payments space can be dizzying for even the most enterprising community bank. Banking-as-a-service (BaaS). Central bank digital currency (CBDC). The financial services industry is acting on this digital demand, incorporating fintech solutions, instant payments offerings and crypto banking products.

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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. BNPL: The community bank play. Those drawbacks present opportunities for community banks to emphasize their roles as trusted financial partners. Colleen Morriso n is a writer in Maryland.

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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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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

Faced with several transitional issues, here’s how these community banks gained support from their new providers to adapt to the change. Two years before changing core processors, Asian Bank began conducting weekly meetings to brainstorm attributes its dream core provider would possess. When Del Norte Bank in Del Norte, Colo.,

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American Banker

JANUARY 9, 2023

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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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Independent Banker

AUGUST 26, 2015

At some community banks, budgeting for technology has become a more important focus over the past several years. Such thinking can be short-sighted, says Jeff Voss, a founder and managing member of Artisan Advisors LLC, a management consulting firm in Barrington, Ill. State Bank and Trust Co. Flexible anticipation.

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Independent Banker

JULY 1, 2015

The combination has helped make him the star lender at Farmers & Merchants Bank, a $120 million-asset community bank in Miamisburg, Ohio. With a flat local economy, “98 percent of our business comes from happy customers,” says Shon Myers, the bank’s president and CEO. Clinton Morton, Famers & Merchants Bank.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

To you, manage your interest rate risk. Although community banks did not lend to sub-prime borrowers in any meaningful way, did we participate? In many respects, community banks were caught in the cross-fire through the purchase of those mbs instruments – and subsequent trial through public sentiment.

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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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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Even if you’re not required to use either version of the Cybersecurity Assessment, beta users say it can help your community bank gauge its cybersecurity risks and ultimately guard against cybercrime. At the Bank of Luxemburg, a $290 million-asset community bank in Luxemburg, Wis., Real-world testing. “I

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Even if you’re not required to use either version of the Cybersecurity Assessment, beta users say it can help your community bank gauge its cybersecurity risks and ultimately guard against cybercrime. At the Bank of Luxemburg, a $290 million-asset community bank in Luxemburg, Wis., Real-world testing. “I

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2014

an advanced data management company in Akron, Ohio, that periodically studies how companies’ emails are read. Patti Renner, Knotice’s director of marketing, points out that this news should concern any community bank that is not sending out mobile optimized emails, or emails that “render well on a mobile device.”

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 19, 2015

The bank was hammered with credit problems during the financial crisis, as Michigan's economy was hit pretty hard. Between 2008-11, the bank lost over $200 million, and its equity base was cut in half. But management went to work. Selling branches, shrinking the balance sheet, raising equity, and working out bad loans.

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MyBankTracker

JULY 31, 2020

Big banks and community banks are another option if you’re a first responder looking for a personal loan. These banks may not advertise loans specifically to first responders, but they might give first responders a discount on their interest rate. How to Get Chase Bank Personal Loans. Related Articles.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In this feature, we’ll look at a number of ways you can continue to build trust—an especially crucial task as the pandemic continues, telecommuting persists and consumer banking practices evolve. But for most community banks, building a trustworthy brand isn’t a conscious effort. billion-asset community bank.

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Independent Banker

MAY 31, 2022

When companies sign on to the ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator, they are looking to home their products and services to better support community banks. The two companies announced that they would be collaborating to offer a complete digital growth solution for bank partners. By Colleen Morrison. Connect with FinXTech.

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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. These folks are based in Maryland so that explains the NSA connection.

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