PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest solutions that FinTechs and lenders are developing to ease the PPP lending process for SMBs and FIs alike, with many initiatives focused on enabling regional and community banks to maintain a competitive edge against the biggest banks. Citizens Bank Of Edmond. LendingTree. Fresno First Bank.

Fresno 142

Fresno Regional Fintech Lending 142

American Banker

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Oklahoma-based regional bank expects 6%-7% loan growth in the year ahead. Executives are also projecting that net interest income will start to improve after the metric hits a trough early this year.

Oklahoma 87

Oklahoma Lending Regional 87

Abrigo

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Once only accessible to large financial institutions and digital-only banks, today’s technology affords smaller financial institutions the opportunity to level the playing field by automating the lending process to get money in customers’ hands sooner. Technology, like banking, isn’t “one-size-fits-all.”

Millennials 218

Millennials Oklahoma Innovation Technology 218

Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

In order to compete as a small bank, we have been forced to keep higher-than-peer capital levels, so that our lending limit allows us to service local borrowers’ needs. Oklahoma City. Genesee Regional Bank. Philip Pecora, president and CEO, Genesee Regional Bank. Genesee Regional Bank. Chickasaw Community Bank.

Community Bank 172

Community Bank Community Montana Taxes 172

Jeff For Banks

MARCH 29, 2014

Lending services include commercial loans to small to medium-sized businesses and professional concerns as well as consumers. The Company’s market areas outside of Houston, Dallas, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Austin and Central Oklahoma are dominated by either small community banks or branches of large regional banks.

Strategy 100

Strategy Texas San Antonio Fort Worth 100

Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Coping just fine, community banks in energy-producing regions manage the oil-price plunge. Texas and Oklahoma banks “got killed in the mid-1980s,” he says. Happy State Bank’s 32 offices are spaced over 500 miles, giving the bank’s lending portfolio geographic diversity. New energy regions adapt. By Howard Schneider.

North Dakota 70

North Dakota Texas Louisiana Community Bank 70

PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

“Being in Boston, Massachusetts, I’m much less likely to invest in a restaurant in Oklahoma if the same business was right next to me,” Mathews said. In this effort, the platform is turning to regional and national economic development organizations to promote education on both sides.

Capital 145

Capital Community Oklahoma Maine 145