South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

We work with hundreds of community banks across the country that utilize forward rate locks to decrease risk, increase fee income, and stave off competition from national and regional banks. However, hundreds of community banks are now using this same strategy to retain existing clients, win new business, reduce risk, and increase fee income.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In this article, we highlight some Gen AI strategy insights for community banks and provide tools to help bankers advance their programs. Few community banks have the resources to accomplish both, and both are sizeable efforts. In 2025, banks evolved in managing their goals and objectives through use cases.

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Abrigo

MARCH 5, 2025

Generative AI and the new loan review process The evolution of banking and risk management over the past few decades has been nothing short of remarkable. Generative AI in credit risk management is the latest step forward , offering a transformative approach to loan review. Data security is also a major concern.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In our previous article ( here ) we analyzed the data on community bank M&A and performance, and we concluded that there is no relationship between community bank size and profitability, as measured by return on equity (ROE). We analyzed various community bank asset bands (under $10B size).

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 24, 2025

Our analysis shows that an average community bank can expect $9.7mm NPV of income (about 1% ROA) on a $100mm loan portfolio when the average loan life is seven years, versus only $5mm NPV of income (about 0.50% ROA) on the same portfolio where the average loan life is 2.3 years (both portfolios measured over a ten-year life).

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Abrigo

JUNE 28, 2024

Navigating interest rate management in today's environment As regulators focus on interest rate risk management, read about what financial institutions can do to be ready for a rate drop. You might also like this on-demand webinar, "Navigating uncertain times: Strategies for effective risk management and compliance."

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Abrigo

MARCH 21, 2025

Partnering with local organizations to promote the health of their economic communities is often a top priority for banks. In recent years, financial institutions have faced increasing regulations regarding their efforts to serve the needs of diverse communities.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Community banks have a unique opportunity to strengthen their deposit base by embracing digital transformation, optimizing customer engagement, and enhancing their product offerings. Investing in digital solutions not only improves the customer experience but also positions community banks as forward-thinking financial partners.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 25, 2024

In a previous article [ here ] we discussed why community banks need product managers to ensure that financial products and services are effectively developed, launched, and managed to meet customers’ evolving needs and the bank’s risk and profitability goals. Not all customers are the right fit for the product.

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South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Community banks (under $10B in assets) serve a key role for borrowers, local communities, and the broader US economy. Community banks are better positioned than many other creditors to follow and adapt to local economies, industries and trends, thereby, being better stewards of capital.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 10, 2025

While we are supporters of community banks using loan-level hedging, we continue to see community banks struggle to properly implement and successfully utilize a back-to-back swap (B2B) program. We understand why, and what community banks need to address to make such a program a success.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 15, 2024

We conducted a loan performance analysis for over 5,000 individual hedged commercial loans originated by almost 400 community and regional banks across the country. Our analysis demonstrates that loan-level hedging has offered community banks a strong competitive advantage in the current interest rate environment and competitive landscape.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In Q2/24 the average return on assets (ROA) for community banks (under $10B in assets) was 1.08%, with an average ROE of 10.44%. But within the community banking sector, performance varied among banks significantly. The Data Behind The Drivers of ROA In Q2/24 the number of FDIC-reporting community banks was about 4,100.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Despite borrowing more and tapping credit lines, they're managing leverage and meeting debt obligations, according to Abrigo's proprietary data. In conversations with community banks and credit unions across the country, we’re hearing about a significant increase in line utilization, raising questions about both liquidity and credit risk.

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Perficient

JULY 21, 2020

Messaging based state management is a staple of enterprise-level applications. Not pursuing a Flux/Redux type of state management solution in a large application often results in unwanted side effects as there is no single source of truth. It is the most popular state management library in Angular by far with 5,900 stars on Github.

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Perficient

MARCH 3, 2021

Perficient developed the La Puerta portal framework as a way of giving back to the Detroit community and to pave the way for students to benefit from a college education. The Michigan Hispanic Collaborative’s goal to improve the economic strength of the Hispanic community in Michigan. “We ” In Michigan, only 15.7%

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2025

Our recognition as the #3 community bank in the state by GOBankingRates in 2025 reflects our commitment to Growing, Together with the communities we serve. To stay ahead, we must blend our community roots with cutting-edge innovation. Market ourselves as a tech-savvy community bank. What is Microsoft Copilot?

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Community financial institutions have the expertise and local ties to support small businesses, but outdated processes and risk-averse approaches often slow down their loan decisioning. Understand and meet borrower expectations For community financial institutions (CFIs), small business lending presents both a challenge and an opportunity.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 5, 2023

Community bank cost of funds is jumping up. As shown in the graph below, the net interest margin (NIM) for community banks declined 22bps in Q1’23. The question is – what will happen to community bank’s cost of funds from here? The graph below shows community bank cost of funds compared to those banks over $25B.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this article, we analyze the underlying data for community banks and focus on the Chairman’s view of the future of bank performance. Community banks were challenged with increasing deposit costs and a lower increase in loan yield than the industry average, leading to a decline in NIM.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 19, 2023

However, the adoption of interest rate swaps is much lower at community banks (banks with under $10B in assets), with only a few hundred banks showing interest rate swap volume. Community banks that can maintain margins, increase fee income, and retain deposit-rich relationships will have a tremendous competitive advantage in the near term.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 22, 2024

At Abrigo, we’ve always focused on helping financial institutions thrive—not just for their own benefit but for the sake of the communities they serve. Think about it: when a fraudster targets a small business owner or when an individual’s life savings are wiped out, it doesn’t just hurt the bank—it devastates families and communities.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Find commercial real estate risks in the loan portfolio Sound risk management practices in commercial real estate lending help lenders manage CRE credit losses and protect the portfolio's profitability. LISTEN Takeaway 1 Effective CRE risk management involves adapting to changing market fundamentals to avoid excessive loan losses.

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Perficient

JANUARY 14, 2021

Hundreds of our colleagues used their $100 and creativity to tackle food insecurity in their communities, contributing tens of thousands of dollars to the fight against hunger. Local and national non-profits were both represented, and many colleagues chose to give back to organizations that were unique to their community. .

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Perficient

MARCH 1, 2021

As containers and Kubernetes adoption continue to grow, security, monitoring, data management, and networking are becoming top concerns for enterprises. Vulnerability management. Configuration management. Our Red Hat practice excels in OpenShift, containers, and other container management platforms, including Kubernetes.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 22, 2023

If one product is the future of banking, it is treasury management. In this article, we detail the five steps to building a treasury management strategy, provide some tools to execute those steps, and then provide a complimentary survey to assess your strengths and weaknesses. It starts by targeting the right customers.

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Perficient

MARCH 1, 2021

Joel Stanesa , general manager of Detroit, echoed, “We want to get to know you throughout the class and we’re here to support you. Perficient is committed to focusing on advancing women in technology to facilitate STEM career growth, and building a technology community dedicated to supporting diversity.

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Perficient

JANUARY 9, 2021

In today’s blog, we’ll cover some of the biggest updates around meetings, calling, management, and even security and compliance released in late December/early January! . Yammer communities and conversations in Teams. If you’re unfamiliar with the Communities app, you can learn more about it here. Management.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This development is very important to community banks, as their efficiency ratio also increased, but to 61.63%. However, we believe that community banks should consider a different strategy since community banks’ much higher efficiency ratio results from a different driver.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 14, 2025

How should community banks think about their balance sheets, product offerings, and client demand in this pivot? Common Sense and Skew in Asset-Liability Management Normally, politicians, especially populists, have a penchant for fiscal expansion. The new administrations agenda is highly pro-business, and fully throttle inflationary.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Key topics covered in this post: Regulatory focus Key questons for ALCOs Governance and concentration risks Expect the unexpected Regulators 'could not be more clear' Today’s regulatory climate is turning up the heat on financial institutions when it comes to liquidity and interest rate risk management.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 10, 2024

Community banks’ use of swaps (banks’ primary tool to hedge interest rate risk on loans) has increased substantially over the last ten years. Meanwhile, community banks face net interest margin (NIM) and fee income pressure. Meanwhile, community banks face net interest margin (NIM) and fee income pressure.

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Perficient

AUGUST 25, 2020

Perficient’s Lafayette Delivery Center is led by a charismatic woman as general manager, MaryBeth Ostasz, and fifty percent of our directors are women. There are plenty of opportunities that need user experience or design thinking, that leverage skills in other careers and backgrounds.” — Amy Meyers , change management program specialist.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

With the right approach, the rewards may outweigh the risks, creating opportunities for both financial institutions and the communities they serve. This staggering amount presents a lucrative opportunity for banks and credit unions to step in and meet the growing need for banking services while supporting businesses within their communities.

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Perficient

AUGUST 19, 2020

They work with the community to limit pet homelessness and ensure positive interactions between dogs and their adoptive families. “We Kurt is accustomed to working with platforms like Adobe Experience Cloud, and s olutions within it such as Adobe Experience Manager, which he describes as “WordPress on steroids.”

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