Perspectives

Get Your Marketing Noticed—and Drive Loans—with Seasonal Campaigns

By Kasasa

The economy seems to be recovering from more than a year of pandemic and stay-at-home orders It’s time for community banks to evaluate their marketing efforts in a new light. Interest...

The Loyalty Factor: Translating Relationships into Non-Interest Income

By Achim Griesel and Dr. Sean Payant, Haberfeld

The past year and a half has challenged our industry in ways previously unknown. We began the year expecting our biggest challenge would be the continued growth of deposits at...

When the Right Answer is Not the Right Answer

By Paul Nunn, Pinnacle Financial Strategies

Last year, I became the proud owner of an above-ground pool. I wanted a way for my family to enjoy our backyard, not realizing it would become our main hangout...

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Loan Admin 101: Effective Loan Administration Crucial in Pandemic Era

June 10, 2021

Effective loan administration will protect margins and balance sheets at banks over the next year as financial institutions handle the effects of the pandemic-induced economic...

FinTegration Strategist: Community Banking’s Access to the Technology Ecosystem

May 19, 2021

What if we could predict the weather? On September 5, 1862, this question led James Glaisher to do something no one had ever done before....

Building—and Rebuilding—the Texas Economy One Business at a Time

May 6, 2021

As COVID vaccinations increase and mask mandates subside, businesses are beginning to draw sighs of relief, hoping that the worst is behind us and the...

While You Were Taking Care of Your Customers

April 12, 2021

For more than a year, community bankers have been hard at work saving the nation’s small businesses via the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The effort...

IBAT’s VendorConnect Offers a Virtual Improvement Over Old-School Meet-’n’-Greets

March 21, 2021

Many aspects of life are beginning the return to normal. In a number of ways, we can see light at the end of the tunnel. We...

A Review of the 2021 Paycheck Protection Program

March 5, 2021

The 2021 release of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), which was signed into law on December 27,...

Let Me Tell You a Story

February 3, 2021

Let me tell you a story. It’s not my story, but it is one I seem to be hearing a lot these days: The world...

The COVID Cost Shift

January 22, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted banking. Changing consumer behavior has created new habits that will last a lifetime. Remaining relevant in an evolving competitive landscape...

Pandemic Prescience: A New Look at a 2007 Report that Pondered the Economic Impact of Another Event Like the 1918 Influenza

December 11, 2020

EDITOR’S NOTE: In 2007, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published a paper by economist Thomas A. Garrett, then an assistant vice president at...

Community Banking: Survival Above All Else

November 6, 2020

Take a stroll back in time with me. It was a simpler time. It was an easier time. It was February. In the February 24,...

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Features

Loan Admin 101: Effective Loan Administration Crucial in Pandemic Era

Effective loan administration will protect margins and balance sheets at banks over the next year as financial institutions handle the effects of the pandemic-induced economic crisis. In any economy—but especially in the current one where...

FinTegration Strategist: Community Banking’s Access to the Technology Ecosystem

What if we could predict the weather? On September 5, 1862, this question led James Glaisher to do something no one had ever done before. Along with aeronaut Henry Tracy Coxwell, he stepped into a...

Building—and Rebuilding—the Texas Economy One Business at a Time

As COVID vaccinations increase and mask mandates subside, businesses are beginning to draw sighs of relief, hoping that the worst is behind us and the future brings some sense of normalcy. But there is no...

While You Were Taking Care of Your Customers

For more than a year, community bankers have been hard at work saving the nation’s small businesses via the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The effort has been nothing short of heroic—and, from what I am...

IBAT’s VendorConnect Offers a Virtual Improvement Over Old-School Meet-’n’-Greets

Many aspects of life are beginning the return to normal. In a number of ways, we can see light at the end of the tunnel. We look forward to the days when we can do things...

A Review of the 2021 Paycheck Protection Program

The 2021 release of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), which was signed into law on December 27, 2020. The new release of the program arrived at the...

Let Me Tell You a Story

Let me tell you a story. It’s not my story, but it is one I seem to be hearing a lot these days: The world of financial services is changing. It is changing fast. Everything...

The COVID Cost Shift

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted banking. Changing consumer behavior has created new habits that will last a lifetime. Remaining relevant in an evolving competitive landscape reshaped by the pandemic is the challenge. Financial institutions that...

Pandemic Prescience: A New Look at a 2007 Report that Pondered the Economic Impact of Another Event Like the 1918 Influenza

EDITOR’S NOTE: In 2007, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published a paper by economist Thomas A. Garrett, then an assistant vice president at the St. Louis Fed (now an associate professor in economics...

Community Banking: Survival Above All Else

Take a stroll back in time with me. It was a simpler time. It was an easier time. It was February. In the February 24, 2020, edition of Bankers Digest, I declared that the era...

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