Article: Worth checking out: in-house check printing: Among other things, it can cut customer costs, improve service, increase brand awareness ... and bolster your fee income.(Community Banks)

Article: Upfront: Tech Opportunity Knocks for Community Banks.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
American Banker;  September 18, 2000 ;     700+ words ...The technology challenge confronting community banks is daunting. Consider the current...suggestions: Invest in your niches. Unless community banks focus their technology initiatives...the retail banking segment. Instead, community banks should be pouring their technology...

Article: Where Community Banks Are Losing Out.
Bank Investment Consultant;  February 1, 2008 ;     563 words ...Community banks' brokerage performance remained stable...report aggregates information from community banks with assets under $4 billion, or...and annuity income suggests that community banks are doing better than they did in...

Article: Investments & Insurance Growth.(trends among community banks)
US Banker;  March 1, 2003 ;     437 words ......according to Grant Thorton, 33 percent of community banks offer insurance products, 43 percent...respectively, in the next three years. Community banks have historically made personal connections...seeing them look more and more to community banks, says Bill Reid, President of ICBA...

Article: Instead of Cutting to the Bone, Consider Creative Building.(community banks, falling margins )
American Banker;  August 19, 2003 ;     563 words ...Community banks have been hit hard by margin compression...a particularly acute problem for community banks for several reasons: - They typically...limited than those of larger banks. Community banks lack the scale for meaningful investment...

Article: Community banks and the Federal Reserve.
Economic Review (Kansas City);  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......District that is well-served by scores of community banks, I appreciate the opportunity to give...morning is to talk first about the role community banks play in the U.S. economy. Then, I...system. My central theme is that while community banks hold only a small share of the nation...

Article: Top community banks post hefty 1990 ROAs. (return on assets)
American Banker;  June 6, 1991 ;     700+ words ...Top Community Banks Post Hefty 1990 ROAs Underscoring...found that the most successful community banks were twice as profitable last year...bank. The 100 most profitable community banks with assets between $50 million...

Article: America's Community Bankers Applauds Regulators For Fleet/BankBoston Branch Sales to Community Banks.
PR Newswire;  September 16, 1999 ;     561 words ......Bankers, the trade group for progressive community banks, today applauded the actions of federal...bringing about the sale of branches to community banks in the Fleet Financial Group acquisition...regulators to require branch sales to community banks and to protect community ...

Article: Costs of Regulation Thin Ranks of Community Banks.
San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Texas) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  September 25, 2002 ;     564 words ...Sep. 25--Community banks, as Goldilocks might say, are not too big. They are...stratum of consumers and borrowers who also find community banks to their liking. Community banks, though, are being squeezed. Competition from big...

Article: Small Banks Hang Back from Insurance Entry: A lower percentage of community banks are getting involved; analysts cite marketing and cross-sales expertise.(Brief Article)
American Banker;  November 15, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Most community banks stayed out of insurance distribution...Banks-In-Insurance in Washington. Moreover, community banks have made little progress toward...ago, he said, more than 30% of community banks were involved in insurance. Last...

Article: Smaller community banks facing obstacles.
Journal Star (Peoria, Illinois);  September 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ......banks, credit unions and nonbanks, community banks face a myriad of challenges. Community...substantially over the years, with small community banks affected the most, according to The...associations. Nationwide, the number of community banks has dropped from more than 10,000...

Article: Community Banks lines up acquisition.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  November 17, 2004 ;     460 words ......Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 17--Community Banks Inc. plans to buy PennRock Financial...Ball National Bank branches to the Community Banks network of offices. An undisclosed number of employees will be laid off as Community Banks works to trim combined operating expenses...

Article: Tomorrow's 'super' institution: look. Up in the sky! No, it's not a bird or a plane, but a 'Super Community Bank' of the future. According to a sampling of Northeast community bankers, tomorrow's successful business model will feature increased flexibility and collaboration, more outsourcing, enhanced customer service, tighter ties to the community--as well as a stronger entrepreneurial spirit.(Community Banks)
ABA Bank Marketing;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ......create ever-bigger banking companies, community banks retain value as financial institutions...is not very bright. The number of community banks dropped from about 10,000 in 1994...Overall, banking industry assets for community banks fell from 20 percent in 1994 to 12...

Article: Community banks will thrive by meeting customers' needs. (Column)
American Banker;  December 13, 1993 ;     700+ words ......mergers and acquisitions continues and community banks are under siege more than ever, it...elimination of certain segments of community banks in specific geographic markets. For...return on their investments by forming community banks all around the country. In Philadelphia...

Article: Community banks seek spoils of merger
The Boston Globe;  April 25, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Community banks in the North Weekly region have launched...and others to press their case: Community banks deserve a fair shot at bidding on...grabs, perhaps as early as June. "Community banks play a strong role already in the...