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Banks Find Profits in the SBA Niche
By Elizabeth Whalen
| | When Bruce Lammers, chairman and CEO of Ridgestone Bank of Brookfield, Wis., met with a group of dentists about using a Small Business Administration loan rather than a conventional loan to finance an acquisition, the dentists said they perceived SBA lending as a very tedious process. Read more>> |
Comptroller Curry Discusses Operational Risk in the Banking System
| Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry discussed operational risk facing national banks and federal savings associations during his speech to the Exchequer Club in Washington, D.C., on May 16, 2012. Read his speech>>
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Video: Financial Institutions Move Toward Prepaid Cards
|  Carrie Haley, vice president, prepaid issuer and program manager at MasterCard, speaks with Craig Fuller, CEO of TransCard, at Prepaid Expo USA 2012, on its Community Bank Program. Fuller explains that community financial institutions are becoming interested in issuing prepaid products and with this initiative, TransCard is creating Product Champions to educate business leaders within the institutions. Click here to view video>>
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Green Leaf Award Open to All Banks
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BankNews is accepting entries in the 2012 Green Leaf Awards, recognizing banks across the country helping their communities and the environment. Entries are divided into asset size, giving every bank an opportunity to be recognized. To enter or for more information, click here.
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RDC and Community Banks
| Remote deposit capture has been around for a few years now, primarily as a tool used by mid-sized and larger businesses for making check deposits. As technology has driven down the cost of scanners, however, smaller businesses have adopted RDC; and, in turn, smaller community financial institutions have responded by introducing RDC. Read more>>
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Strategic Mortgage Lending: How to Increase Revenues
DATE: JUNE 19
Mortgage loan origination and mortgage banking are activities that most banks are surprisingly qualified for, both operationally and competitively. In this session, you'll learn how to use the bank's present resources for a cost-effective start-up or enhancement of your bank's mortgage operation, as well as the advantages of table funding and correspondent lending. Click here to register.
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Consumers Prefer Online Banking to Traditional Branch Banking
| More than half of consumers prefer to do their banking online and nearly half would do all of their banking online if they could. This was a key finding of the national consumer survey on retail banking trends conducted by Rosetta, an independent brand in the Publicis Groupe of global agencies and one of the nation's largest digital and direct interactive agencies. Read more>>
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Training Center Courses
| Sign up today for one of training courses in the following areas: tellers, loan officers, trusts & estates, fraud prevention, compliance, bank certifications, securities licensing and human resources. To learn more, click here.
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Remote Deposit Capture Value Calculator
| Click here to see the potential savings with remote deposit capture.
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Spring and Annual State Bank Directories Now Available
| BankNews Media, one of the nation's leading publishers of state bank directories, is now accepting orders for the Spring 2012 Kansas and Missouri bank directories and the Texas Banking Red Book; the Summer 2012 New England Bank Directory; 2012 California Banking Gold Book; and 2012 directories for Maine, Missouri, Montana/Wyoming, the Mountain States, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Click here for ordering information>>
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