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Four ways to attract (and keep) top tech talent

BankInovation

Perhaps the Nasdaq’s doldrums will turn the attention of the nation’s top IT talent from tech to a banking industry in dire need of their services. Perhaps, but don’t bet the company on it. In a banking business rolling out steady streams of innovative, technology-dependent products amid a massive cloud transformation, that’s what you’d be […].

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Are banks too optimistic about the U.S. economic outlook?

American Banker

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Meeting Customer Demand for a Tailored Banking Experience

The Financial Brand

This article Meeting Customer Demand for a Tailored Banking Experience appeared first on The Financial Brand. Personalization doesn’t have to be complex or expensive. It just needs to show bank customers that they’re more than an account number. This article Meeting Customer Demand for a Tailored Banking Experience appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover: Lessons for Bank Leaders

The Financial Brand

This article Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover: Lessons for Bank Leaders appeared first on The Financial Brand. Whether or not you approve of how Elon Musk is changing Twitter, his high-stakes actions offer important leadership lessons. This article Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover: Lessons for Bank Leaders appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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Back to Basics with Reconciliations

Join us in this webinar, where we share best practices on how to think about the reconciliation work each month, when best to do reconciliations, how they should be prepared, and some common pitfalls to avoid. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to properly prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and its impact on the financial statements.

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By the numbers: Cyberattacks putting bank data at risk jump 92%

BankInovation

Cybersecurity threats that place bank information and personal data at risk are on the rise as the holiday shopping season officially kicks off with Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Cybercriminals are targeting online shoppers by scraping sites for credit card and banking data, according to a recent report by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which monitored cyberthreat-related […].

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Empowering Your Financial Advisors With Salesforce

Perficient

Across industries, so much of marketing effectively comes down to timing — appealing to the right person, at the right place, at the right time. Timing for marketing financial services and products as a financial advisor is especially crucial, as many financial needs follow the timeline of milestones in an individual’s life. But financial advisors that work for larger wealth managers and are looking to be more targeted and personalized with client outreach are often burdened by the hoops put in

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Converting Libor Loans To SOFR Loans – A Guide

South State Correspondent

Banks have ceased using LIBOR to price assets and liabilities after 2021. The remaining LIBOR cash and derivative instruments will continue until June 30, 2023. At that point, all LIBOR settings are expected to be discontinued, and most legacy LIBOR contracts will be converted to a Fallback Rate (effectively, compounding daily SOFR plus a spread adjustment).

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Brad M. Bolton: Putting the “community” in community banking

Independent Banker

Photo by Chris Williams. People want to be a part of something bigger than themselves, and community banks provide that opportunity. Community banking is about serving the greater good. As community continuators, we are part of something bigger than ourselves. We support civic clubs, Lions Clubs, the Relay for Life, our local schools and so much more, because these issues matter to the communities we serve.

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PayPal counts on its digital app for gains

Payments Dive

The digital payments pioneer is scouting for new ways to increase customer use of its digital wallet, including plans to add a new Venmo teen account.

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How a Managed Services Partner Can Reduce the Friction in Your RDC Program

Treasury teams at community banks face an ongoing challenge of delivering frictionless customer experiences as they support treasury products – especially RDC. This infographic focuses on the efficiencies community banks gain when partnering with a proven managed services provider. You’ll see the advantages you can gain when a managed services partner leverages online tools, skilled customer and technical support personnel, and fulfillment and logistics capabilities to streamline RDC fulfillment

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Themes & Takeaways From the 2022 Real-Time Payments & Fraud Management Summit 

Perficient

Our Payments Practice recently had the opportunity to represent Perficient at the 2022 Real-time Payments & Fraud Management Summit held in New York City. . The conference was attended by several Financial Institutions, Service Providers, Fintechs, and Industry Regulators. Among its attendees were representatives from The Clearing House (TCH), The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and SWIFT, along with some of the largest financial institutions in the U.S. .

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Using The French Defense in Deposit Management

South State Correspondent

It was the famous England vs. France chess match back in 1834, where the French opened with a simple yet potent attack. England came out, moving a pawn to the center of the board. The French stopped the pawn’s advance and used the combination of their bishop, rook, and knights to counterattack England’s exposed players. The set of moves has become known as the “French Defense” or “The French” and is one of chess’s most famous opening moves.

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Lindsay LaNore: The art of saying “thank you”

Independent Banker

Photo by goir/Adobe. The end of the year is the perfect time to share your appreciation for the hard work and successes of the year gone by. By Lindsay LaNore, ICBA. It’s the end of the year, a time for leaders to reflect on goals, metrics and performance over the past 12 months. It’s a time to set goals and a vision for the year ahead. And it’s also a perfect time to say, “thank you,” and share your appreciation for all the hard work and successes of the year gone by.

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Credit card delinquencies, charge-offs climb

Payments Dive

Despite the increases, consumers are still faring better in paying off balances than they were prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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Budget Playbook for Commercial Lenders — Bank and Credit Union Edition

Amid market uncertainty, banks and credit unions are faced with critical decisions about the future of their commercial lending. With fluctuating interest rates and rising competition from non-bank lenders, it's critical to allocate your 2025 budget strategically to optimize lending operations. Our Budget Playbook for Commercial Lenders delivers key strategies to help you navigate these challenges, ensuring your institution is well-positioned for the coming year.

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Securing a Resilient Financial Services Enterprise

Cisco

The functioning of global economies is partially reliant on a secure and protected financial services infrastructure. It is the reason why financial services is one of the most highly regulated and highly fortified industries. Therefore financial institutions require a more resilient operating model, one that has the capability to reduce risk at scale and protect the business amidst unpredictable change.

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FHFA Announces 2023 Conforming Loan Limits

CFPB Monitor

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently announced the conforming loan limits for residential mortgage loans acquired by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2023. Fannie Mae addresses the limits in Lender Letter 2022-06. As was expected based on the significant increase in housing prices during 2022, the limits increased substantially. The standard loan limit for a one-unit home increased from $647,200 in 2022 to $726,200 for 2023.

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Best Community Banks to Work For 2022

Independent Banker

Clockwise from top left: Grand Ridge National Bank, Wheaton, Ill.; Community Financial Services Bank, Benton, Ky.; Bank of Montana, Missoula, Mont.; CNB Bank, Berkeley Springs, W.Va.; Midwest Bank, Norfolk, Neb. What great resignation? 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. » LESS THAN $250 MILLION.

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Affirm mulls consumer, merchant fee increases

Payments Dive

The buy now-pay later provider is contemplating increases in the interest rates charged to consumers for some of its loans as it targets profitability for next year.

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Is Your Current Card Platform Holding You Back?

Have you ever felt the pain and loss of a client suddenly going silent, leaving you questioning everything? Ghosting can cause heartbreak; in business, it drains resources, and emotionally, it shatters your confidence. A modern credit card program can give you the tools to deliver the digital-first experiences your customer’s demand. Our eBook, “5 Signs Your Credit Card Offering Needs an Upgrade,” will help you identify key indicators that your current card platform may be holding you back and w

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ATM-as-a-Service – A Strategic Step on the Transformation Journey?

Gonzobanker

Moving from a traditional CAPEX model to an “as-a-service” OPEX model could be the key to transforming banks’ ATM/ITM channel. ATMs have changed a bit in the last few years. The latest models resemble something one might see on the floor of a casino rather than the clunker model in the corner. Banks whose fleets resemble more of the latter are probably past due for an upgrade.

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CFPB seeks input on development of new auto market data set

CFPB Monitor

On November 17, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) announced in a blog post that it is in seeking to build a new data set that “will allow for a more robust understanding of market trends” in the auto market. According to the CFPB, over 100 million Americans have an auto loan, and auto loan balances (currently estimated at $1.5 trillion nationally) are on pace to surpass student loans as the second-largest debt category in 2023.

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Rebeca Romero Rainey: The people make the bank

Independent Banker

Photo by Chris Williams. How we hire, retain, recruit and advance our missions amid momentous change will remain a key topic for community bank leaders and will influence our plans for the future. December creates a natural opportunity for reflection, and as I look back on our efforts over the past year, I’m struck by one core truth: It’s the people who make the bank.

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Amex debuts B2B payments system

Payments Dive

The card company is adding to its product line-up in an attempt to cater to small businesses as they try to recover from COVID-19 pandemic lows and face inflationary pressures.

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It Takes Two to Tango

With automation, you’ll reduce errors and save valuable time, allowing you to focus on what really matters: strategic analysis and insightful decision-making. Picture accurate financial reports ready at your fingertips, giving you the confidence to tackle business challenges head-on. Embracing automation not only boosts productivity but also elevates your role from number cruncher to closing rockstar.

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UK productivity puzzle – a production network perspective

BankUnderground

Marko Melolinna. Input/output networks are important in propagating shocks in an economy. For understanding the aggregate effects of shocks, it is useful to know which sectors are central (ie, providing a lot of inputs to a lot of other sectors) and how the central sectors are affected by and propagate the shocks to other sectors. In a new Staff Working Paper , my co-author and I build a structural model incorporating key features of the sectoral production input/output network in the UK, and th

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Justice Department announces new guidance for handling bankruptcy discharge of federal student loans

CFPB Monitor

In conjunction with efforts to forgive federal student debt for certain borrowers, President Biden’s Justice Department recently announced new guidance for its attorneys to use when deciding whether to recommend that a bankruptcy judge discharge an individual’s federal student loans. . The guidance seeks to streamline the process of discharging federal student debt which, unlike other consumer debt, is not automatically discharged through bankruptcy.

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Lexicon Bank: A bank that shows its hand

Independent Banker

Stacy Watkins (left), president and CEO, and Hilary Nelson (right), senior vice president and director of operations and compliance, at the Las Vegas Strip. Photo by Sammy Tillery. When it comes to supporting outliers in the Las Vegas community, Lexicon Bank knows how to play its cards. By Tom Groenfeldt. Name: Lexicon Bank. Assets: $237.6 million. Location: Las Vegas, Nev.

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Panel blasts fintechs for missing PPP fraud

Payments Dive

Fintechs like Womply and Blueacorn provided the “paths of least resistance” for fraudsters bilking the federal Paycheck Protection Program, a House subcommittee said Thursday.

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3 Ways Managed Device Services Help Community Banks Cut Costs

Community banks seek ways to leverage their technology infrastructure to drive productivity and growth. However, the sheer volume of technology devices, capital constraints, and lack of skilled resources stand in the way. This Strategy Brief explores how a managed device services partner can help bridge this resource gap. Managed device services partners empower community banks to take charge of mission-critical device management activities with: Logistics and installation services to support se