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. 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.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Connect with an expert Common fraud schemes Check fraud Check fraud is one of the most concerning fraud trends for community banks in 2025. These could be held in a local branch lobby, community center, or place of worship. 880,418 c omplaints were registered, with potential losses exceeding $12.5

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Perficient

JANUARY 14, 2021

Coming Together to Support Food Security. 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. Giving Back To Food Security Organizations. Submission by Amelie von Fluegge, senior project manager.

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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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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Meeting investment accounting and reporting requirements The right technology tools can help institutions manage investment accounting compliance and risk exposure across various investment types. Accurate and streamlined investment accounting supports overall risk management, particularly in areas like credit, market, and liquidity risk.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

Organizations leveraging Drupal need to consider the ongoing maintenance and upgrades required to keep Drupal secure and enable your authors with new features and modules. Regardless of the major version of Drupal, it’s important to continue to quickly apply patches associated with security bulletins.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Innovation has always been important for community banks, but the driving force of digitization over the last decade has greatly sped up the pace, said Kevin Tweddle, chief innovation officer for the Independent Community Bankers of America ( ICBA ). Community banking is no exception. Leveling the Playing Field.

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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.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 13, 2023

Equally important is the bank’s securities duration, as shown in the graph below. Approximately 56% of the bank’s securities had repricing greater than 15 years. SVB’s securities portfolio is high credit quality (Treasuries and quality MBS) but long duration. at the end of 2022, with $2.4B

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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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Abrigo

MARCH 12, 2025

Protecting customers from disaster fraud In the aftermath of hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and other natural disasters , vulnerable communities often see an uptick in disaster fraud schemes designed to steal personal information or relief funds from would-be donors. Find out how Abrigo Fraud Detection stops check fraud in its tracks.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Key topics covered in this post: What wire fraud is 8 strategies for preventing wire fraud How to strengthen financial security Wire fraud: What it is and how to prevent it Wire fraud remains one of the most prevalent financial crimes, costing businesses and individuals billions each year.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Stress testing, monitoring are essential Financial institutions should challenge assumptions about CRE risk while also watching for red flags as they manage the CRE portfolio. WATCH Takeaway 1 Banks and credit unions are critical sources of capital for businesses in their communities, so how institutions assess CRE credits matters.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Let’s rediscover what it means to be community bankers. Because as community bankers, it’s what we do. That just may be community bankers’ word of the year. Flush customer accounts may enable us to position wealth management services. ICBA Securities’ investment options. Photo by Heather Esposito. My Top Three.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2021

How can community financial institutions thrive in 2021? Community banks provide unique and important banking services for their customers, but they also face significant obstacles. Takeaway 1 Community banks play an important role in the economy and their communities, but they face significant obstacles.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

This year’s winners: Left: Central Valley Community Bank, People’s Choice Award; Middle: Kennebec Savings Bank, Exceptional Community Bank Service Award; Right: Cross River Bank, Emerging Service Program Award. Exceptional Community Bank Service Award. Instead, we give those dollars to the community.”. Asset size: $1.36

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

With a second Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) on the way, small businesses have yet another chance to secure much-needed financial relief. Yet the new bill fails to address the gaps that allowed for fraudulent activity among some businesses that had secured PPP loans in the first round of stimulus, the publication alleges.

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Abrigo

MARCH 3, 2022

In today’s banking world, community banks are focused sharply on shareholders’ expectations for growth in earnings and return on equity. So, how can community banks support earnings and ROE growth in the face of intense regulatory scrutiny and competitive pressures on profitability? Changing Lending Environment. What's Next.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

Fleetsmith , a startup that has built a platform enabling corporate IT crews to manage Apple devices, has been acquired by the tech giant, the company’s founders confirmed in a blog post. Launched in 2016, Fleetsmith created a platform that IT departments can use to remotely set up and manage Apple devices.

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Perficient

JUNE 5, 2020

Secure software practices are at the heart of all system development; doubly so for highly regulated industries such as health-care providers. As a best-practice it is recommended to adopt automation of certain security audits, integration of compliance oversight into key development process areas (e.g. SonarQube Security Scan Result.

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Abrigo

JULY 16, 2021

Takeaway 2 Regulations haven't been written, but there are steps community financial institutions can take now to prepare. Currently, the accompanying regulations have not been written, so what should community financial institutions take away from these priorities now? financial system and national security. financial system.

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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

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. Philadelphia.

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Independent Banker

MAY 31, 2022

Community banks have a choice about addressing the problem: Remain vulnerable or be vigilant. Fraud and cybercrimes continue to increase, causing challenges for community banks. But there’s plenty community banks can do to meet this challenge. The bank works hard to prevent attacks with many defensive layers of security.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

At a time when our nation’s secrets at the NSA and Homeland Security and assets at the Department of the Treasury were able to be illicitly tapped into by foreign hackers, the security and reliability of countless other online industries and enterprises have also been brought into question. Not All Bad.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Community Capital Technologies, Denizen Financial, Diro Inc., Fintel Labs, iGTB, JUDI.AI, KapitalWise, OpenDoor Securities, and Operant.AI The 12 startups demoing to try to win the “best in show” award at Bank Innovation Ignite have been unveiled. The startups are:[link] Avocado Payments, Budgit Inc., Exagens Corp.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

PYMNTS' latest Real-Time Payments Report done in collaboration with The Clearing House looks at the matter through numerous use cases, none more informative than that of New Jersey-based community bank Cross River , with its enthusiastic embrace of real-time payments (RTP). If only enthusiasm were enough. It was quite a bit of work.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

The Clearing House’s RTP finds expansion within the community bank arena, while abroad, the Bank of Thailand is planning its own infrastructure development to accelerate B2B payments. RTP Gains Community Bank Traction. In the U.S., And when it comes to legacy rails, the U.S. ” HSBC Debuts Real-Time Direct Debit.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Connie Ngo , CertiK’s marketing manager, told CoinDesk in an email that the companies agreed “it would make sense to formally partner with one another as a public promise of Hdac’s focus on security and a symbol of CertiK’s ability to support larger enterprise-level solutions such as Hdac’s.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

“At the start of the pandemic, many organizations deployed simple COVID-19 screenings, such as self-reported health surveys, to support re-entry to workplaces and other institutions,” Paul Roma , general manager of IBM Watson Health, said in a press release on Friday (Dec.

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Independent Banker

MAY 31, 2022

What are some best practices for managing this new distributed workforce? Communicate expectations clearly, early and often. Making sure lines of communication are open means you’re more likely to be on the same page, so it reduces the need to micromanage. Embrace all methods of communication. Be inclusive.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

SWIFT , a global provider of secure financial messaging, announced a new service Thursday (Oct. Over the next 24 months, Swift said the project will provide transaction management services to create new value-added services to support business growth. The service is expected to be available to all gpi financial institutions next year.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 5, 2022

We concluded that obligors showing less than 1.50X DSCR would be most at risk, but the average community bank underwrites to 1.20X DSCR. The post Managing Stagflation Credit Risk in Banking – Part III appeared first on SouthState Correspondent Division. We will discuss this concept more in future blogs.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The statement provided examples of risk management and other practices that may be effective in combatting this often-underreported crime. Common tactics include pretending to be from the IRS or Social Security Administration and threatening the victim with fines or legal action unless they pay immediately.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

SWIFT , a global provider of secure financial messaging services, announced Wednesday (Sept. Over the next two years, the Belgium-based cooperative said the initiative will provide transaction management services. 16) that its cross-border platform will be retooled to enable financial institutions to deliver instant transactions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

By contrast, he said he believes community banks run the risk of being left behind unless they partner quickly and wisely with the right technologists and raise their digital game. But Piatt said that broadly speaking, small community banks and credit unions need to consider how what they offer will expand relationships with customers.

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AUGUST 2, 2020

Auto-enrollment and device management from Teams Admin Center. Microsoft is bringing better device management to admins by adding MTR’s to the list of devices that can be managed through the Teams Admin Center. New ways to Enable and Manage MTR devices. Yammer Communities coming to Teams Mobile App.

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