South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Community bankers need to understand their competitive landscape. 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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

The National Retail Federation ’s annual convention may have come and gone but the sentiments, strategies and lessons learned from facing nearly a year of pandemic-led changes by some of the world’s largest merchants are going nowhere fast — especially when it comes to their embrace of increased digitalization.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Compliance with investment accounting and reporting requirements plays a central role in ensuring operational efficiency and regulatory adherence. Investment accounting compliance not only minimizes operational risks but also reduces regulatory scrutiny. WATCH Investment accounting compliance risks U.S.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2023

Inspired by the entrepreneurship of lemonade stands, Scottsdale Community Bank created a microloan program. Photo by Brandon Sullivan De novo Scottsdale Community Bank set out to provide microloans to small and mid-size businesses, family organizations and nonprofits—a project that was inspired by the humble lemonade stand.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. Clearly, community banks in the region have plenty of opportunities to do what they do best: forge deep and lasting relationships with their customers and communities. These include family-owned businesses, community businesses and operating companies.

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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. Ponzi schemes A fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to earlier investors using money from new investors rather than legitimate profits. Staying on top of fraud is a full-time job.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Clockwise from top left: Grand Ridge National Bank, Wheaton, Ill.; Community Financial Services Bank, Benton, Ky.; In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. Grand Ridge National Bank.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Premium benefits packages, professional development and TLC during the pandemic—this year’s winners do everything in their power to keep their community bankers happy and fulfilled. We asked both leaders and staffers to tell us what makes their community banks stand out as employers. Key Community Bank: Leading by example.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 9, 2025

Most national banks scored relatively well. Community banks, not so much and the majority of banks can still not open an account digitally. It took Open AI Operator 27 seconds (below) to search for the highest 7-month bank certificate of deposit that allows for online account opening and start the account opening process.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Anderson celebrates 75 years in community banking this year. And when that life takes in the Great Depression, World War II and 75 years in community banking, the challenge becomes more acute. His father’s family, members of the Citizens Potawatomi Nation, farmed corn and cotton, and his mother came from a produce farming family.

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Abrigo

MARCH 9, 2015

The latest FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile was just released and the industry continues to be led by the nation’s community banks. Net income was up almost 28% over the fourth quarter of 2013 led by higher net operating revenue and lower loan loss provisions. percent of community banks were unprofitable during the quarter.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 22, 2015

According to a recent survey from four Federal Reserve Banks, small regional and community banks have the highest approval rate for small business loans. The 2014 Small Business Credit Survey was a joint operation conducted by the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Atlanta, Cleveland and Philadelphia.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Over 110,000 restaurants have shuttered since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and another 500,000-plus establishments are in an "economic free fall," the National Restaurant Association said in a letter to Congress. The survey included 6,000 restaurant operators and 250 supply chain businesses Nov.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

House committee this week began reviewing the idea of allowing the likes of Amazon or Facebook to receive charters to operate as banks — an idea that’s already gotten plenty of pushback from traditional financial institutions (FIs). However, the banking industry doesn’t like that one bit. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

Quite the contrary,” says Bob Brennan, chairman of the National Expansion Council and one of the directors of a nonprofit organization called Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) based in Boston, Massachusetts. “I But what about the entrepreneurs who are still hanging onto their dreams of starting a retail business? And what is that model?

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Community bankers are largely positive about the future, based on the first results of a new index gauging business sentiment among the financial professionals who serve a critical role in local economies. Is the current period a good time to expand your operations? Grow your loan portfolio. Learn More.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Lets explore key aspects of wire fraud and best practices financial institutions can use to protect their clients and their operations. Banks and credit unions should educate clients on how these scams operate and encourage them to verify all wire requests independently. Staying on top of fraud is a full-time job.

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Perficient

JANUARY 28, 2021

You can get involved at home, at work, and in your community. Learn more about Data Privacy Day , including Privacy Tips for Parents and the chance to quiz yourself with the National Privacy Test and Google Phishing Quiz. See open jobs or join our talent community for career tips, job openings, company updates, and more!

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

Executive committee members tell us what advocacy issues they’ll be focused on during their terms, while board members share their words of wisdom for up-and-coming community bankers: themselves. To sum it up, these leaders are all in and all heart for community banking. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Community banks are voicing their frustration with what they say is a lack of competition in the market for corporate bank technology providers, reports in The Wall Street Journal said Thursday (April 11). Community banks say their services are often too expensive and can sometimes be delayed.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Independent Banker ’s annual Community Bank CEO Outlook survey reveals how community bank leaders plan to leverage today’s deposit-laden banking environment to grow this year. Janet Silveria, Community Bank of Santa Maria. So, what’s at the top of community bank leaders’ to-do lists? What changes will 2022 bring?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

To regain some of that ground, Connie Davis, senior vice president at FIS , told PYMNTS in a recent interview, FIs — particularly credit unions (CUs) and community banks — must transform the way they think about digital offerings and connected experiences. That means they can compete more effectively against digital-only competitors.

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JULY 10, 2020

Achieving these commitments will require clinical, marketing, and operations teams partnering more closely together and in a way they never have before. COVID exposed the fragility of many systems’ operating models: an over-reliance on a small number of services to fund expenses across the enterprise. The $200B question.

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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’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times.

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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’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In Q2/24 the average return of asset (ROA) for community banks (under $10B in assets) was 1.08%. But within the community banking sector, performance varied among banks significantly and a large swath of banks need to improve ROA. of community banks reported negative ROA. While the average ROA was 1.08%, approximately 5.7%

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 18, 2024

Deposit costs and liquidity remain a challenge for some community banks as competition for core funding remains intense. The graph below compares the liquidity ratio for community banks (under $10B in assets) and banks over $100B in assets. This deposit and loan repricing mismatch caused NIM pressure at community banks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

The National Restaurant Association , the country’s (and world’s) foodservice trade association, released its annual State of the Restaurant Industry report on Tuesday (Jan. 26) compiling and analyzing data elicited from 6,000 restaurant operators and 1,000 adult consumers. Creating Culinary Experiences Remotely.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 18, 2022

Historically, community banks have relied on net interest margin (NIM) instead of fee income to drive return on equity (ROE). Community banks have overlooked fee income because of the lack of analytics on how fee income translates to revenue and profitability. Historically, hedge fees have mainly been the domain of national banks.

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JULY 15, 2021

But thanks to nonprofit organizations like Operation HOPE — which collaborates with financial institutions, corporations, municipal agencies, and community organizations to help low- and mid-income Americans achieve financial independence — credit education is available more widely than ever before. Unfortunately, the U.S.

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JUNE 5, 2020

This includes static application structure, dynamic application behavior, third-party component patch/version levels, and overall deployment environment compliance with hardened operating systems. Operational Security. Secrets are necessary for the operation of all modern software systems. Secrets Management. username/password).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

According to an August study of digital banking by PYMNTS, banks are closing physical branches, reducing hours of operation and encouraging customers to use their websites or mobile apps to conduct transactions and reduce face-to-face interactions between customers and staff. On Monday (Oct. 5) NCR Corp.

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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. A community bank may transact one or only a few balance sheet hedges over many years.

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PopularBank

MAY 1, 2020

A Message from Chief Operating Officer Manuel Chinea. Dear Customers, Partners and Community Members, Thank you for being part of our Popular Bank family. As we face the immediate and serious health concerns as a community, we are also seeing a much wider impact on all our lives as well as our local, national, and global economies.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Sixteen years later, Live Oak is a national SBA leader with a $2 billion market cap. Banking leaders like Lakeland Financials David Findle y show how balancing risk-taking with disciplined rigor and operations can generate outsized long-term value. billion market cap.

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