In a field populated by big banks, online banks, credit unions and fintechs, the $1.2 billion Richwood Bank of Richwood, Ohio, has developed a path to sustained relevance through ancillary businesses designed to grow the bank. [Continue]
BankBeat spoke with Gerald Pettway, chief operating officer of HC3, which offers banks a platform to redesign their customer statements. [Continue]
Rene Johnson vividly remembers the first state ag bankers conference she attended back in 1999. [Continue]
Consolidation is a growing trend in banking. The number of FDIC-chartered institutions has fallen to around 4,500 from nearly 12,400 in 1990 as bank owners seek the scale necessary to survive. [Continue]
Green Bay, Wis.-based Associated Bank leapt into Minnesota toward the end of the 1990s with a pair of acquisitions (Windsor Bancshares and Riverside Bank), then scooped up Signal Bank in September of 2001. [Continue]
Allied Payment Network, founded in Ft. Wayne, Ind., in 2010, announced in February that 84 financial institutions on-boarded its payment product in 2024. [Continue]
Midwestern Dad knows he can bank online, but he’d rather come into the branch: Can’t show a computer my trail cam pics. Look at this sucker, still got the velvet on … What’s a guy gotta do to get a sucker around here? [Continue]
Technology, including social media and AI promise to be an equalizer for marketers, allowing small banks to achieve big reach — if that’s their goal. Marketers are using AI cautiously, if at all. [Continue]
Stearns Bank’s marketing team has been busy in recent years. [Continue]
Banking is a traditional space and the subject matter is serious, sometimes complicated. [Continue]