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.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

People’s United Bank, which operates across Connecticut, southeastern New York state, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire, recently demonstrated the growing interest of community banks to collaborate with FinTechs to expand their product offering — just as larger national and multinational financial institutions (FIs) do.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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. Analyzing the competition can also help a bank be realistic about which products it can sell and at what price.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

To that end, news came earlier this week in the United States that a dozen community and regional banks have formed a group aimed at exploring the opportunities amid FinTech offerings. The group, to be known as Alloy Labs Alliance, according to a press release , is being managed by FinTech Forge. Here In The States.

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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 do this profitably by turning transactional accounts into relationships.

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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 do this profitably by turning transactional accounts into relationships.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Fallout from recent global events presents an obstacle to generating revenue for community banks. As we enter budgeting season, the answers might be found in a mix of strategies. 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. ?

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

These community banks share how they have (or haven’t) altered their hiring strategies. According to the BLS, “quit levels and rates” by employees is higher in all employment sectors than it is in “finance and insurance” specifically, which is where community banks would fall (see table below). By William Atkinson.

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Cisco

JANUARY 10, 2023

As a change agent serving the financial services industry for over 20 years, it is a great privilege to collaborate with Bank, Insurance, and Wealth Management institutions to devise and execute digital transformation strategy, solve complex business problems, and leverage technology to strengthen business results.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 25, 2024

This strategy is used for various reasons discussed further in this article. Recently, larger lenders, including Bank of America, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Wells Fargo, have announced that they are seeing an elevated appetite for forward rate locks on loans for future anticipated commercial borrowings.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

They share tips for how community banks can get started. Social media has made it easier for community banks to nurture connections with prospects, customers and the community. In its simplest form, it expands the reach of a community bank’s content. By Amy Geist. What is paid social? Paul, Minn.,

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American Banker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Proposed capital rules aimed at bigger institutions will force regional and larger community banks to consider ways to grow or seek an exit strategy, bankers and analysts predict.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Rapid consolidation in the banking industry is creating a growing band of regional banks that find themselves stuck in a solution provider market that isn’t fully capable of serving them. As banks have consolidated, so have the technology partners serving them.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 21, 2022

Last week we wrote about loan-level vs. balance sheet hedging for community banks and provided our loan proposal generator ( HERE ). We compared and contrasted the two strategies and sized the market for community banks. We also shared a table that summarized the two strategies.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

With megabanks spending billions on digital investments each year, regional and community bank executives understand they cannot compete on resources. Instead, these players are focusing on specific niches, brand strategies and community connections to differentiate themselves. Appoint Digital Ambassadors.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

smaller community banks and credit unions (CUs) stepped up to the plate and, according to the Small Business Association (SBA), ended up facilitating more than half of PPP loan volume to SMBs. That's good news for community banks and credit unions, which could see a wave of new SMB customers and members in the coming months.

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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. This is strong evidence that community banks are pricing to an arbitrary minimum credit spread in this set of loans.

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The Financial Brand

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This article Community Banks Are Missing Out on the Value of Social Media appeared first on The Financial Brand. Nearly 9 in 10 community and regional banks are active on social media, but they lag on using it for sales. Meanwhile, examiners are keeping tabs.

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BankInovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Core provider Jack Henry is responding to a widespread shift in the financial services landscape with an open banking strategy that aims to facilitate a fintech-enabled digital ecosystem for community banks. As community […].

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South State Correspondent

MAY 18, 2022

In two recent articles, we reviewed the banking industry’s deposit behavior with regard to cost of funding earning assets (COF) ( HERE ), and we compared how community banks’ COF behaves relative to national banks in a rising interest rate cycle ( HERE ). A graph for SouthState Bank appears below.

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Banking Exchange

DECEMBER 28, 2019

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Abrigo

AUGUST 30, 2024

Currently, the FHFA has a “tangible capital rule” that restricts banks with negative tangible capital from obtaining new advances and existing advance renewals beyond 30 days without a regulatory waiver. With investment portfolios under water, community banks would be hit especially hard if the waiver is eliminated altogether.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

The company revealed that David Kowach has been named head of Community Banking, while Jim Hays has come onboard as president and head of Wells Fargo Advisors. In his new role, Kowach is responsible for Regional Banking, Distribution Strategies, Customer and Branch Experience, and Regional Services.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 3, 2023

Banks that can generate higher net interest margins are not more profitable as measured by ROA. While many bankers focus on developing strategies to increase loan yield to widen NIM, we believe this approach is not sound. Location – Because most banks take on the profitability of an area, geography matters.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Payment company PayFi and The Clearing House (TCH) have partnered to bring real-time payments technologies to the community banks on PayFi’s Branch99TM Real-Time Platform, according to a release. “We We are in the middle of an unprecedented disruption in the banking and payments industries,” PayFi Head of Growth Peter Gordon said.

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The Financial Brand

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This article Is Being a ’Regional Bank‘ Now a Reputational Liability? How can regionals regain their shine? This article Is Being a ’Regional Bank‘ Now a Reputational Liability? appeared first on The Financial Brand. A few high-profile failures have tarnished the category. appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 22, 2023

With a competitive offering, it will be easier to attract the small business and mid-sized companies that a bank needs to fuel its core growth. The opportunity for the product is that for an average community bank, 83% of their commercial, non-profit, and municipal customers are NOT using treasury management services.

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Alex Jimenez

APRIL 7, 2024

In late 2022, as the US unemployment rate hit a nine-year high, bank executives met to discuss changes in their strategy. These banks should beware that even an organization that has innovation in their DNA, like Nike, is now having a hard time going back to their old ways.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 29, 2014

Two sections of the 10k I scroll to is the "Business" section and the "Business Strategy" section. This, one would think, would give me a feel of the bank''s differentiation strategy, it''s perceived competitive advantage, if you will. Well don''t get too excited. I picked Texas because of their perceived independent streak.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Community banks and credit unions are feeling the pressure to boost their digital card services or risk losing customers to megabanks and digital challengers, Ondot Systems ’ Chief Strategy Officer Todd Lesher told PYMNTS in a recent discussion. It’s a story told by the data itself, Lesher said. Square announced $1.3

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South State Correspondent

MAY 31, 2023

The advent of generative artificial intelligence is about to shift branch strategy again to re-raise the question – how can we get the most out of our branches? At an average of $1 million per year to operate, the branch is the most expensive per unit channel in banking, given that a good branch serves 2,000 to 3,000 customers.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 19, 2023

For example, while banks in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. Some small banks, for example, do nothing more than have their CEO call the largest depositors twice per year to check in and thank them. This is one of the great mysteries of community banking. It starts with articulating a strategy.

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ABA Community Banking

JULY 9, 2024

Partnering with a regional healthcare provider, Five Star Bank is looking to become a ‘solution center for the community.’ The post Branching out into telehealth appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Maybe instead of Acquire or Be Acquired, this conference should be called Evolve or Be Acquired,” observed Eric Sprink, CEO of Coastal Community Bank in Everett, Wash., and a trailblazer in the world of banking as a service (BaaS). Think about the wild ride that Silvergate Bank has taken with its crypto strategy.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

What clients want the bank and are likely to move to your bank? Here, a tool like IBIS World comes in handy for setting bank strategy as you can look up any of the below industries to see their geographical dispersion. Yet, many community banks have not organized their TM effort to exploit this service advantage.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 16, 2022

One element that many commercial banks attempt to differentiate with borrowers is the prepayment provision (or sometimes the lack of one). Many community banks will market their fixed rate loans based on the simplicity of the prepayment provision, and this starts by understanding the value that each provision creates.

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South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The need to reduce cost, the move to instant payments, and the need to deliver more unique products and services are all driving this effort at credit unions, community banks, and mid-sized banks. The argument is both philosophical and nuanced, but it is critical to understand when deciding on a small business delivery strategy.

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