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Printer-friendly version (PDF) This week’s newsletter was meant to be about how banks can offer digitally-based relationship management, reflecting the shift occurring in banking as more clients move to digitally-enabled…
Focuses on improving performance in small business and middle market banking.
Printer-friendly version (PDF) This week’s newsletter was meant to be about how banks can offer digitally-based relationship management, reflecting the shift occurring in banking as more clients move to digitally-enabled…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) This year’s American Banker Small Business Conference, just concluded in wonderful Nashville, may have been the best I’ve ever attended. There was more electricity in the air…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) The American Banker’s Small Business Banking Conference begins this week. Reviewing the key topics being covered provides some insights into the issues that are top of mind….
Printer-friendly version (PDF) This week we continue our conversation with Sandy Berry in which he comments on leadership in banking and the changes bankers should consider. As with the last…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) As discussed in FIC’s last newsletter, we all know that almost all banks (roughly 99% of the total number) lose money on small business loans. The difficulty…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Banks lose money from small business loans, typically, loans below $250,000. Not all banks, of course. But all banks except maybe five-ten of the biggest banks that…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Today, it seems that all our clients and prospects are spending increased time on deposit retention and gathering. Rates are rising, more traditional and non-traditional companies (for…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) “There’s a lion over there,” my son, Sam, said calmly, as we sat around a fire enjoying cocktails and canapés at the Mana Pools safari camp in…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Recently, I was speaking with a senior exec at a bank that has long focused on capturing low cost deposits from its customers. It is among the…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) This week the Small Business Administration (SBA) has been celebrating National Small Business Week with webinars and other events aimed at 30 million small businesses. However, most…