Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 26, 2023

I recently spoke to a community group, and subsequently a community bank all-staff meeting regarding the definition of a community bank. The FDIC has defined community banks in their December 2020 Community Banking Report that either exclude or include the following criteria: Seems complicated. Especially when a community bank could have no office with more than $8.24B in total deposits but could have no more than $1.65B in total assets.

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Perficient

JANUARY 25, 2023

2023 has commenced, and rates are climbing, inflation is bubbling, and banking customers are continuing to demand hyper-personalized products and experiences from their institutions. Here are five banking trends we’re forecasting for the new year. 1. Banks are focused on efficiency initiatives to optimize their operations and lower costs. Three prominent areas where there is a strong desire to optimize: Data.

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Banking Exchange

JANUARY 23, 2023

Almost nine in 10 CFOs expect commercial lending to be a “major source of profitable growth” this year Retail Banking Financial Trends Feature Lines of Business Technology Feature3 Financial Research

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 26, 2023

At the card giant’s annual meeting Tuesday, CEO Al Kelly showed no signs of backing off crypto. He also suggested Visa’s management team may change after he exits as CEO.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 23, 2023

No doubt you have heard other bankers talking about ChatGPT. This AI-powered digital assistant, technically called “generative AI,” has taken banking, and society, by storm. In three months, it has become the primary tool of many bankers, helping make banks more efficient across the organization. Our innovation working group, called Spark, has been playing with the tool for the past several months, and this article details how we use it to jump our productivity by 20%.

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Accenture

JANUARY 26, 2023

The world of commercial banking faces uncertainty today. As a result, it is difficult to make confident decisions about the medium-to-long term. However, Accenture believes commercial banks have an opportunity to reinvent themselves and reposition for the future. Unlike in the 2008 financial crisis, banks today are well-capitalized and better prepared to withstand economic shocks.… The post Commercial banking top trends in 2023 appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 27, 2023

The card companies said that consumer demand, including for travel, remained healthy in the fourth quarter of 2022, though growth moderated.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 22, 2023

In a previous article ( here ), we discussed why commercial loan prepayment protection would be a critical return on asset (ROA) driver for community banks in 2023. We outlined the four main reasons why prepayment provisions increase profitability for banks. We also discussed the four standard prepayment provisions for commercial loans (step-down, lock-out, defeasance, and symmetrical breakeven provision).

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SWBC's LenderHub

JANUARY 26, 2023

As we discussed in Part 1 of Modernizing the Property Valuation Process , the housing market has experienced dramatic changes that have presented many challenges for appraisers. Although the market has shifted, the challenges remain. While initiatives put in place by Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal (PAREA) and The Appraiser Diversity Initiative to provide alternative pathways for aspiring appraisers to join the industry and decrease the shortage of appraisers represent a good sta

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 26, 2023

The CFPB recently hosted the first hearing of the Appraisal Subcommittee of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (“ASC”) on appraisal bias. The hearing was led by CFPB Deputy Director Zixta Martinez and ASC Executive Director Jim Park. HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, and FHFA Director Sandra Thompson also participated in the hearing.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 24, 2023

The wallet, which is expected to launch in the second half of the year, aims to compete with PayPal and Apple, sources told The Wall Street Journal. But serious competition may take a while, an analyst said.

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Banking Exchange

JANUARY 23, 2023

In separate initiatives, the ABA and CFPB are seeking to add to consumer protection measures related to mortgage lending Mortgage Credit Feature Mortgage Mortgage Compliance Mortgage/CRE Feature3 Compliance/Regulatory Duties

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TheGuardian

JANUARY 24, 2023

Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance add their voices to Richard Curtis’s Make My Money Matter campaign A raft of famous names including Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance have joined activists and businesses in calling on the UK’s big five banks to stop financing new oil, gas and coal expansion. Make My Money Matter , a campaign set up by Richard Curtis , the screenwriter, director and Comic Relief co-founder, has written to the chief executives of HSBC, Barclays, Santander, Nat

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BankUnderground

JANUARY 26, 2023

Martina Fazio and Gary Harper During recessions, and indeed pandemics, housing prices usually fall. Yet between March 2020 and December 2021 (‘the pandemic’), housing prices grew in the UK, reaching at the time their highest growth rate in a decade. During this pandemic, many more people could work from home, which potentially influenced their housing choices.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 23, 2023

In a new report, a group of international organizations give a broad overview of routes for improving international payments systems.

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ATM Marketplace

JANUARY 27, 2023

The ATM industry is no stranger to high profile acquisitions and the bitcoin side of the industry has joined the trend. Bitstop, a bitcoin ATM provider, has acquired Genesis Coin, which powers more than 12,000 bitcoin ATMs in the U.S., and accounts for 31.9% of all such machines worldwide.

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TheGuardian

JANUARY 26, 2023

Government lifted cap on bankers’ bonuses in September, allowing them to ‘help themselves’ to unlimited payouts, TUC said Bankers’ pay has risen more than three times as fast as nurses’ pay since the 2008 financial crisis, according to an analysis by the TUC, which said low paid nurses are being forced to rely on handouts from food banks. The unions’ umbrella body said pay and bonuses for those working in the finance and the insurance sector had risen by an average of 6% a year in nominal terms

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Cisco

JANUARY 24, 2023

The prior blogs in this series, listed at the bottom, have discussed the various regulations affecting CIOs and their IT organizations. The purpose of this plan was to understand the application and complexity of these regulations as they apply to technologies, so that we can evaluate technologies used to help teams satisfy these requirements. The purpose of this blog is to discuss a few ways in which tooling and automation capabilities can be used to satisfy the asset management requirements of

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 25, 2023

The largest department store in Mexico is carving out a niche in offering digital and physical debit cards, as well as remittance services, to people sending payments over the border.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 26, 2023

The fintech industry took a hard hit in 2022 as investors scaled back their investments amid market turmoil. However, some top investors like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) remained active in the space across various deal stages, valuations, geographies, and sub-industries. Fintech is central to a16z’s investment strategy. In recent years, the firm has not only shored up its presence in more familiar sectors like banking, but also reached deeper into newer territory like blockchain.

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TheGuardian

JANUARY 26, 2023

High street banks have now announced 87 closures so far this year – see full list of NatWest closures below NatWest is to shut another 23 branches in England and Wales, adding to a raft of high street banking closures already announced this month. The sites will close in the first half of this year. The bank said the closures were due to more customers moving to mobile and online banking.

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BankInovation

JANUARY 23, 2023

Microsoft Corp. is investing $10 billion in OpenAI, whose artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT has lit up the internet since its introduction in November, amassing more than a million users within days and touching off a fresh debate over the role of AI in the workplace.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 23, 2023

How economic stress challenged payments companies in the final months of 2022 will be closely watched in upcoming earnings reports.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 26, 2023

In a letter to Director Chopra , five banking trade groups address the CFPB’s obligation to comply with the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA) before proposing a rule on credit card late fees and late payments. The groups are the American Bankers Association, Credit Union National Association, Independent Community Bankers of America, National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions, and National Bankers Association.

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TheGuardian

JANUARY 27, 2023

Women were found guilty of causing £100,000 damage to building in Canary Wharf, London Seven climate change activists who were found guilty of causing more than £100,000 of damage by smashing windows at the headquarters of Barclays Bankwere spared jail by a judge. Zoe Cohen, 52, Carol Wood, 53, Sophie Cowen, 31, Lucy Porter, 48, Gabriella Ditton, 28, Rosemary Webster, 64, and another protester, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were charged with criminal damage and pleaded not guilty.

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