Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. This region has the kind of energy that draws people to a place and helps them and their businesses thrive. That year, installations further south, in the region that includes Brownsville and Corpus Christi, supported an estimated 41,000 jobs and contributed about $4.6

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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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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

People’s United Bank, which operates across Connecticut, southeastern New York state, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire, recently demonstrated the growing interest of community banks to collaborate with FinTechs to expand their product offering — just as larger national and multinational financial institutions (FIs) do.

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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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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2018

One of my top sources of OpenSim-related news this year has been OpenSim Virtual and similar Google Plus communities. Largest multi-grid communities. Communities that grew the most in 2017. Opensim Life Regions gained 123 new members. Largest single grid Google Plus communities. Largest multi-platform communities.

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Banking Exchange

JANUARY 25, 2023

Biggest regional banks should be held to same standard as the largest national institutions, says ICBA Community Banking Feature3 Feature Retail Banking Compliance Compliance/Regulatory

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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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American Banker

AUGUST 7, 2024

First National Community Bank CEO Ryan Earnest said his institution would likely use its entry into Paulding County, an Atlanta suburb, as a template for future expansion.

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Banking Exchange

AUGUST 21, 2019

Community banks are facing tremendous competitive pressures from regional, national, and global banks Technology Feature3 Fintech Feature Financial Trends Community Banking Customers Core Systems Branch Technology/ATMs Outsourcing/Cloud Tech Management Mobile Online Cards Checks/Remote Deposit Capture.

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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The current policy directions from the new administration are largely inflationary, and community banks should be paying attention and consider a loan-level hedge strategy. Hedge Strategy Adoption Community banks’ use of swaps (banks’ primary tool to hedge interest rate risk on loans) has increased over the last ten years.

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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

JULY 7, 2016

Until approximately ten years ago, interest rate loan hedging (using swaps) was prevalent for national and larger regional banks, but most community banks avoided loan hedging for various reasons. In the last ten years, more community banks have started to offer their borrowers some form of loan hedging option.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 1, 2016

If you have to battle the large national or regional banks for treasury management business, then you are in luck because competition is easy. Of course, many community banks don’t feel that way, but often that is because they have the wrong approach.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 5, 2024

In this article, we will consider how and why loan size is one of the most significant drivers of profitability for community banks and what community banks can do to improve performance. However, a community bank’s average commercial loan size is between $250k and $500k. Some of the results are shown in the table below.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 5, 2024

In this article, we will consider how and why loan size is one of the most significant drivers of profitability for community banks and what community banks can do to improve performance. However, a community bank’s average commercial loan size is between $250k and $500k. Some of the results are shown in the table below.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 25, 2024

Forward Rate Lock Tools National lenders have been using locks for decades, and these instruments can take many forms. Community banks that use our ARC hedging program have used forward rate locks for the following scenarios: Community banks use forward-term loan commitments to offer single-close construction through permanent financing.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 5, 2024

The typical published analysis considers the industry in aggregate which conflates the challenges and opportunities at community banks (those under $10B in assets). Second, much of the increase in COF for community banks is the result of shrinking non-interest bearing DDA being replaced with higher cost CDs (see graph below).

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 19, 2024

That is exactly what is happening in the community bank industry. In Q2/24, community banks (those under $10B in assets) were able to expand net interest margin (NIM) by 3bps but experienced a 12bps reduction in return on equity (ROE). We’ll explain why we believe this is occurring and ways that community banks can reverse this trend.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

is set to see its first new community bank in decades, as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) lent its approval for MOXY Bank to launch in Washington, D.C. With clearance to move forward with its plans, the community banking landscape will see its first new industry player in years. have emerged to do.

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Jack Henry

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I grew up in a small town before regional or national banks were common (or even allowed). Banking was synonymous with community, and walking through the doors of my local branch to deposit my paper route earnings meant conversations with tellers and managers that I’d known – quite literally – my entire life.

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Banking Exchange

JANUARY 25, 2021

The two lenders join a growing number of regional banks announcing partnerships to help minority-owned and small businesses Community Banking Feature3 Feature The Economy PPP Covid19.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

To bring their merchandise in front of millions of shoppers through eCommerce, several Goodwill regions are teaming with mobile marketplace OfferUp. With the tie-up, the items are listed under handles for regional Goodwill locations. People who shop at Goodwill triple their impact.

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Ublocal

APRIL 6, 2023

With many pandemic-related food relief programs ending—including increased SNAP benefits and free school lunches —as well as rising inflation and food costs , the risk of food insecurity for residents across our region is ever-growing. It’s also something that we can all work on together to eliminate.

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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. Small regional and community banks had a much higher approval rate (90 percent) for those firms classified as “Growers.”

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Banking Exchange

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Regional and community banks received high ratings from customers, while national banks, and super-regional banks trailed behind Community Banking Feature3 Feature Customers Retail Banking.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

Local and regional banks may have once been more insulated from these trends than other businesses since they are often trusted names within their communities and maintain long-standing relationships with their customers. In contrast, national bank customers are less likely to switch FIs, with 25.9 Our research shows that 28.5

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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. Many banks fall into the “recency trap.” There is a reason for this.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

ICBA inaugurated its Community Banker of the Year award program this year to recognize the exceptional work of the individual employees of ICBA member community banks. The association accepted nominations online throughout the month of September, allowing anyone to recommend a community banker for consideration. The Judges.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2018

Community banks approved 49 percent of SMB loan applications in November, according to the latest data from the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index. Here, again, lies another opportunity for community banks to fill the void. INTRUST Bank recently announced it is also taking part in the trend of collaborating with FinTechs.

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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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Banking Exchange

JUNE 27, 2019

Regional banks continue to acquire niche players for scale Community Banking Feature3 Feature Customers M&A.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Community bankers need to practice realistic loan pricing discipline. However, we need to understand the meaning of pricing discipline and its effect on community bank performance. This is strong evidence that community banks are pricing to an arbitrary minimum credit spread in this set of loans.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

The first $15 million will go to groups directly dealing with how the virus is affecting people directly, with $5 million to institutions that handle community development, to dole out low- or no-interest loans. The bank has earmarked $3 million to international groups that provide the same service.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

First National Bank and Black Tech Nation Ventures teamed up to support minority-owned startups in the Pittsburgh community and beyond. Driven by her goal to cultivate a supportive community for diverse tech startups, Kelauni Jasmyn founded the fiscally sponsored nonprofit Black Tech Nation in Pittsburgh in 2018.

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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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