Demographic Destiny for Community Banks?
From challenges to rural banks to the rise of millennials to regulatory pressure on growth areas—community bankers discuss the outlook for the industry.
From challenges to rural banks to the rise of millennials to regulatory pressure on growth areas—community bankers discuss the outlook for the industry.
In an op-ed in the Orlando Sentinel this weekend, Florida Bankers Association president and CEO Alex Sanchez called on political candidates to work for bipartisan regulatory relief that would build up regional and small banks, rather than focusing on the destruction of large institutions they consider “too big to fail.”
By Corey Carlisle ankers have long recognized the importance of financial literacy and of teaching Americans how to establish and maintain healthy financial habits. With April’s National Financial Literacy Month on the horizon, I asked Kurt Schindler from Banco Popular in San Juan, P.R., and Ben Joergens from Old National Bancorp in Evansville, Ind.—the 2014
By Linda W. Navarro here are many ways that banks engage in protecting their customers’ hard-earned dollars. Lending prudently, providing deposit insurance, combating fraud, advising about smart financial choices—the list goes on. Lesser known, but equally important, is the work banks do to protect older Americans from financial abuse. (See “Safe Banking, Savvy Seniors.”) At
If you’re considering the forces shaping the future of your bank and the banking industry—and you should be—keep an eye on the “digital disrupters.”
Banks vastly outpace online marketplace lenders in small business customer satisfaction, primarily because of the high interest rates and unfavorable terms of online lenders.
By a bipartisan 34-22 margin, the House Financial Services Committee today advanced the ABA-advocated TAILOR Act.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today issued a final rule establishing a process by which a businesses and individuals can appeal the bureau’s designation of a rural area.
Marketplace lenders are already winning your customers, bankers say. Here’s how to respond.
Reps. Randy Hultgren (R-Ill.), Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) and Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) yesterday introduced the Community Bank Reporting Relief Act, an ABA-supported measure that would streamline bank reporting by permitting well-capitalized and highly rated banks to file a short-form Call Report in the first and third quarters each year. The full Call Report would be required in other quarters.