Independent Banker

JANUARY 26, 2016

A young entrepreneur prefers relationship community banking. With whatever time he has had left over, he runs his own regional business magazine. In general, Meadows believes community banks can play an important role in helping young businesspeople. By William Atkinson. He’s an entrepreneurial prodigy.

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Independent Banker

JULY 30, 2015

An award-winning, monthly magazine that provides in-depth industry news, including member profiles, lending and technology trends, and expert insights. Community Bank Career Center. The ICBA Community Bank Career Center is the community banking industry’s resource for online employment connections.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Photo by Radachynskyi/Adobe Using ICBA’s Marketing Communications Toolkit, your community bank can tell its story with intention and precision. For the banking industry, marketing can be finicky. With print and online publications—such as newspapers, magazines or website articles—you have to consider their timelines.

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Finer Points

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Rarely do I pause to share recommended reading, but a new feature in this month’s Independent Banker magazine is worth it. The “Psychology of Money” feature in the December issue is some of the finest journalism on banking and finance that I’ve come across in some time—and I’m proud to say it came from ICBA. […].

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 25, 2016

to boost your community bank’s. With the average individual spending 100 minutes on social media each day, it’s entirely possible for community banks to share some of that screen time. According to McIlwain, there’s “no right answer” to which social media channels community banks absolutely must use.

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ABA Community Banking

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Magazine issues call for entries to be judged by expert panel. Winners profiled in special issue Human Resources Management CSuite Community Banking.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 13, 2018

is the parent company of Willamette Valley Bank, a community bank headquartered in Salem, Oregon. The Bank operates five full service offices. They have been a regular on the American Banker Magazine's top 200 ROE bank for five years running. Welcome to the list! #2. Oregon Bancorp, Inc. And to them I say.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

With a little time and attention, every community banker can make a difference in our industry’s grassroots advocacy. For that reason, today’s lawmakers on Capitol Hill are highly attuned to their bosses—their constituents, which includes community bankers. By Michael Blankenheim.

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ABA Community Banking

AUGUST 29, 2019

American Banker Magazine today published its seventh annual list of the 85 best banks to work for, with ABA member banks accounting for 62 of the honorees. The post ABA Congratulates Outstanding Bank Workplaces appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 14, 2022

Imagine the community bank that is experienced in lending to fuel oil businesses in or near its markets because it's comfortable using trucks, tanks, and oil inventory as collateral. But in January 2021, the new OCC announced it would pause the "Fair Access" rule that was intended to prevent another Operation Choke Point.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Bank Director Magazine recently came out with its Ranking Banking report for 2024. It uses four metrics to gauge the performance of public commercial and savings banks as defined by S&P. Net interest income is typically greater than 80% of community bank revenues.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This year, American Banker reporters dove deep into topics such as gambling addiction, Citigroup's rebuild, the Small Business Administration, fraud, and monetary policy for its feature articles. Check out the most consequential articles of the year.

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Jeff For Banks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

The Owner/Chairman Criteria: I looked to Bank Director Magazine's annual scorecard for my pick. Building a low-cost core deposit base is arguably the most difficult task in banking, and it creates significant value to the publicly traded bank because it is difficult to replicate. Chief Retail Officer. The wide receiver.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 30, 2022

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In the chart below, derived from The Kafafian Group’s (TKG) peer database of hundreds of community bank branches, we see that the revenue generated from deposit spreads, asset spreads (typically consumer loans), and fees (typically deposit fees) as a percent of branch deposits averaged 2.08% for commercial banks and 1.88% for thrifts during 2014.

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American Banker

JUNE 2, 2016

How Eastern Bank pulled off something few community banks have: launching a digital lending product that the 197-year-old mutual dreamed up in its innovation lab.

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American Banker

AUGUST 8, 2016

Community banks are often burdened with manual data entry for processing commercial loans. Union State Bank has turned to digitization software to make it easier. It may sound modest in the age of APIs, but it made a quantifiable difference.

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American Banker

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

WSFS Financial has been around nearly two centuries, and CEO Mark Turner is going for another two. Has he found the road map for success?

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American Banker

JANUARY 2, 2017

Directors today are expected to perform many duties that, even a decade ago, weren't part of the job, from overseeing cybersecurity and the bank's culture to setting online and mobile strategy. Yet the composition of many bank boards hasn't changed all that much.

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American Banker

MAY 26, 2016

Large enough to meet the needs of most customers yet small enough to escape some of the Dodd-Frank Act's most onerous compliance expenses, banks with assets of $2 billion to $10 billion are more profitable, as a group, than their smaller and larger counterparts, according to an analysis by Capital Performance Group.

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The Emmerich Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Last time we talked about research that was shared by Professional Selling Power magazine that declared that: Number 1) Having a selling system that works can increase sales effectiveness and net results by as much as 30 percent. Click HERE for your free coaching session on sales.

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American Banker

AUGUST 28, 2016

Here's a look at how some of the Best Banks to Work For are saving trees while saving money and time. Eliminating paper doesn't just speed up processes and cut costs — it's also good for the environment, and helps financial institutions recruit and retain green-minded and tech-savvy young employees.

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The Emmerich Group

JANUARY 21, 2016

Professional Selling Power magazine reports this formula: Number 1) Having a selling system that works can increase sales effectiveness and net results by as much as 30 percent. Do you want to increase your sales proficiency of your people by 100 percent?

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American Banker

JANUARY 2, 2017

Is your bank effectively mitigating the risk of 'managing to metrics'? The phony-account scandal at Wells Fargo illustrates how sales quotas can incent bad behavior. Or could it be in danger of becoming a 'cargo cult'?

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American Banker

MAY 16, 2016

Seacoast CEO Dennis Hudson, in a letter to the company's biggest shareholder, touted improved performance while questioning the timing of the investor's push for a sale.

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American Banker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Contrary to expectations about growing mortgage lending volumes, current industry trends suggest a gradual reduction in capacity for both lending and servicing that should alarm policymakers.

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American Banker

AUGUST 28, 2016

From tying the knot to working out, these institutions from our annual Best Banks to Work For list have given their employees inventive ways to earn extra time off.

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American Banker

JULY 26, 2016

The combination of higher regulatory expenses andreduced income from interchange fees is taking a toll on the profitability of banks with $10 billion to $50 billion of assets.

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American Banker

JUNE 13, 2016

Never mind gender parity – just having executive committees consisting 30% of women is still a long way off for the financial services industry, according to a new study.

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American Banker

JUNE 13, 2016

Never mind gender parity – just having executive committees consisting 30% of women is still a long way off for the financial services industry, according to a new study.

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American Banker

JUNE 1, 2016

But these five traits help the elite banks drive such impressive results. Achieving high performance is a challenge.

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American Banker

APRIL 26, 2016

Dennis Budinich, chief culture officer at Investors Bank, discusses the rise of chief culture officers and other nontraditional jobs in the banking industry.

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American Banker

APRIL 26, 2016

Networking is a skill, and banks would be wise to offer their employees a little guidance on how to do it effectively. Otherwise, there will be more failed efforts, like this one from a new banker in town who surely thinks he "networked" at a recent golf tournament.

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American Banker

APRIL 25, 2016

But some are handling that pressure better than others, as our annual ranking of publicly traded banks and thrifts with less than $2 billion of assets shows. Profitability is under a lot of pressure for small institutions.

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American Banker

MARCH 30, 2016

San Francisco has an Office of Financial Empowerment that oversees all sorts of programs designed to help residents handle their money better and recruits banks and credit unions to participate. As other cities adopt a similar approach, more financial institutions have an opportunity to get involved.

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American Banker

MARCH 30, 2016

HarborOne Bank is proving that financial education really can improve the bottom line.

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American Banker

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

For all the technology banks have to help them deliver personalized service, the overall customer experience remains a challenge.

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