Clay Ewing is president and chief banking officer of a community bank with a name that reflects its heritage -- but German American Bank is well ahead in developing a well-rounded community bank model that thrives.

As expected, the financial regulatory agencies today issued a proposed rule implementing a provision of S. 2155, the new regulatory reform law, regarding the treatment of high volatility commercial real estate.

On the season two premiere of the ABA Banking Journal podcast, banking legend James "Chip" Mahan provides his wide-ranging outlook on bank technology, small business lending and the customer experience.

Community banks exposed to the oil and gas business tended to weather the recent downturn in oil prices well, according to research released in the FDIC’s Supervisory Insights publication today.

Highlights from the latest issue of the ABA Banking Journal.

From airplanes to healthcare equipment, how community banks complement the core model with niche lending sidelines.

When asked which provision of the S. 2155 regulatory reform bill would be most meaningful to them, community bankers were most likely to rank the policy change to make most reciprocal deposits non-brokered.

With the CRE lending market currently booming, banks are increasing their concentrations in this area -- particularly in construction lending -- according to findings from the 2018 Commercial Real Estate Lending Survey conducted by ABA.

In the previous quarter, banks kept terms and standards for business loans unchanged or eased them slightly, while tightening slightly on commercial real estate loans and easing in most residential mortgage loan categories, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest senior loan officer opinion survey released today.

How community banks position themselves to win construction loans.