Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 14, 2021

In June of 2008 I gave a speech titled "The Death of the Community Bank" and in that speech I made predictions. Much like the General Store fell victim to the supermarket and the lumber yard fell victim to Home Depot, I predicted the community bank that did not pick targeted customer niches or develop product expertise will meet it's doom.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 13, 2024

Thankfully for bank and credit union executives, lenders, risk managers, and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Officers, banking podcasts and podcasts for credit unions are plentiful, and options are growing. Listening to podcasts can help them manage risk, drive growth, and fight financial crime. The Community Bank Podcast 10.

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Perficient

AUGUST 15, 2024

– These are the exact words (with a couple of expletives, that I cannot quote here) – a senior fund administrator from a large investment firm uttered when we were presenting about environment aware financial risk management. I, for one, listen when this legend speaks. What does it mean? How does it impact me?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

They keep their business personal: the product manager is a hockey coach and hockey dad who is out on the rinks daily, thinking of new products and ideas to cater to other parents of budding young hockey stars. The company’s largest target market is the 12-and-under age group. He sees it less as a group and more of a community.

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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

One of the lessons that was driven home at the recent American Banker Small Business Banking Conference in Nashville was the difference in marketing between large national banks and community banks, particularly deposit marketing. The bank can then record conversions as they market to this test group. There is a reason for this.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

On February 14-17 the American Bankers Association held their National Conference for Community Bankers. The format was to first ask a couple of group questions. The second group question regarded capital. Some rely on a relatively small group of local investors, including employees and board members.

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2015

In recent months, the momentum around reducing the regulatory burden on the nation’s community banks has continued to gain steam. However, the regulatory landscape continues to evolve, leaving resource-constrained community banks to cope with new demands. The second idea is community bank exemption from the Volcker Rule.

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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 ). Deposit Behavior In This Tightening Cycle Versus Last Three.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 30, 2024

Attendees return from ThinkBIG energized and informed so they can continue positively impacting their institutions and, more importantly, their communities. Abrigo is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

To provide regional and community banks with a full-scale solution to manage and grow their FX programs, FinTech firm Derivative Path, Inc. Our industry-leading rates platform now combined with Currencycloud’s capabilities will make our offering even more powerful for our regional and community banking clients.”.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 9, 2022

Many community banks are searching for ways to increase fee income, and many bank CEOs have concluded that fee income is a significant driver of revenue and profitability. We argue that larger banks do not have an inherent advantage over community banks in generating fee income because of their scale.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Singapore is on a mission to build up a Smart Nation by utilizing innovation and technology to create opportunities and strengthen communities. Startups are estimated to employ nearly 300,000 on the island nation. Singapore is poised to become the world’s first country to make the notion of a “Smart Nation” an actual reality.

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Abrigo

JULY 15, 2015

One such pain point is the confusion behind identifying ways to effectively grow their business through the management of financial resources. Whether using a national bank, regional bank, community bank or credit union, there are numerous cards that can help your client leverage their credit to create capital.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

Accountants with small business customers facing regulatory compliance or enforcement issues will be able to seamlessly direct those clients to the SBA ’s Office of the National Ombudsman (ONO), which helps to resolve those matters. The SBA and AICPA have been working together since 2008, the entities noted.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC ) recommends healthcare consumers over 65 get vaccinated, few communications have targeted these groups or provided understanding and navigation to how to access the vaccine in their community. How are you reaching them?

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Daniel Galindo, pictured, and Doug Schaeffer of Woodforest National Bank helped involve the community bank in providing funding for and access to affordable housing. Name: Woodforest National Bank. Doug Schaeffer, Woodforest National Bank. Doug Schaeffer, Woodforest National Bank. By Aileen McDonough.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2018

A new report from Intuit, “ Small Business in the Age of AI ,” released in honor of National Small Business Week, examines entrepreneurs’ expectations and attitudes for artificial intelligence and how the technology might impact their ability to wield automation to grow their businesses.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 10, 2023

This development should strongly motivate community banks to consider the benefits of loan-level hedging. The graph below shows loan repricing buckets for three asset-sized groups of banks: under $1B, $1B to $3B, and over $25B in assets. The proportion of fixed-rate loans has increased for community banks over the past four years.

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Abrigo

JULY 21, 2021

As part of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) first national priorities list for anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) policies, one important priority continues to be detecting, reporting, and preventing terrorist financing. See Part I: Implications for Community Financial Institutions.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

Consumers are paying with credit and debit cards more than ever before, and they are increasingly looking to their smartphones to gain greater control over how they spend and manage their money. Among this group, 31.4 In contrast, national bank customers are less likely to switch FIs, with 25.9 Overall, national banks offer 6.9

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 6, 2013

Why don''t we play a critical role in solving the nation''s retirement problem? controlling) they should do is enforce laws against the charlatans that plague the investment community. Retirement Assets Should Be Pooled and Professionally Managed. But I disagree with greater control of a national pension system in Washington.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Southern Bancorp partners with other community banks to increase loan accessibility and financial literacy to low-income customers. As CEO of Southern Bancorp, Darrin Williams wants to promote relationships between community banks and CDFIs to create more prosperous communities. Better serving its communities.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As of 2021, Lakeland’s Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) assessment area included majority-white areas of Essex, Somerset, and Union counties and excluded the portions of those counties that contain majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The WSJ cited data from the National Restaurant Association indicating that at least 17 percent of U.S. Ten percent of all of workers in the United States have some kind of tie to the restaurant industry, whether (as) a server, a cook or a manager or (as) a supplier or a servicer to the industry.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

eBay believes strongly in the power of community and connections between people, which has been essential to our classified businesses globally. The combined company expands its reach to 20 nations. “We We are excited for our local classifieds brands to join Adevinta and shape a global leader in an industry full of potential.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

"With the new COVID-19 stimulus package signing, many small business owners can apply for another round of Paycheck Protection Program loans,” said Senior Vice President National Sales Manager John Cox Miller in the release. “In It will reportedly only accept applications from community financial institutions for the first two days.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2019

Walgreens and VillageMD , a leading national provider of primary healthcare, have announced a partnership to provide primary care services for adult patients in the Houston, Texas area. Walgreens chief medical officer and group vice president, healthcare services and clinical programs, said in a press release.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The CFPB announced the appointment of new members to its Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, and Credit Union Advisory Council. New members to the Consumer Advisory Board will serve three-year terms and new members to the Community Bank and Credit Union Advisory Councils will serve two-year terms. Kathleen C.

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Perficient

JULY 10, 2020

Revenue recovery efforts offered a necessary but insufficient first step – we urge you not to be complacent if you’re fortunate to have managed through a first wave. The Chartis Group estimates that 10% of the patient market for elective care will disappear. And not just to patients but to its employees and donors.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Changing customer banking habits means it’s more important than ever for community banks to use every tool at their disposal. Community banks may have longstanding relationships with their core vendors, but that doesn’t always mean they keep up to date on all the latest features and functionalities. Mike Daniels, Nicolet National Bank.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Observing the gap in pandemic relief in south Florida due to a lack of local community banks, a trio of banking veterans teamed up to form a digital-first community bank—and were granted a charter in record time to support local businesses. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert. Name: Locality Bank. Assets: $55 million. Built on a solid foundation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Reading the February 2020 Credit Union Tracker ® done in collaboration with PSCU , we discover that Canadian credit union Desjardins Group was hacked , impacting the records of 4.2 The Desjardins Group incident sent a chill through the CU community. Seems that everybody likes credit unions—including cybercrooks.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 21, 2023

The need for a known, reliable brand creates an excellent opportunity for community banks to help small business customers while building deposit balances. Community banks can now white label this same product to onboard and process employee retention tax credits for the bank’s small business customers AND prospects.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2021

However, if the bank is underperforming peers, the peer group itself is dismissed as irrelevant (“we’re a lot different than those banks anyway…”). Benchmarking looks beyond peer averages to identify top performers; it redefines the nature of an assumed peer group, and it requires a deeper level of analysis from the management team.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Mexico’s small business community is struggling with a lack of access to credit, reports said, offering an opportunity for alternative lenders and even finance giants to strengthen their position there. The nation’s FinTech landscape “is significantly less crowded in Mexico than it is in the U.S.,” ”

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TheGuardian

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My father, Austin Hobbs, who has died aged 91, was an old-fashioned bank manager whose work took him to the agricultural and coastal communities of the south-west. He started work for the National Provincial Bank, later NatWest, in 1952, at a time when statements were still handwritten and posted from local branches.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2016

The CFPB has announced the appointment of new members to its Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, Credit Union Advisory Council, and Academic Research Council. Lynn Drysdale, Managing Attorney, Consumer Law Unit, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc., Community Bank Advisory Council Members. Jacksonville, FL.

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