Convention
Golden Joe Joins ICBA Convention Speaker Line Up
ICBA
has exciting news for community bankers who are attending ICBA’s 2013 National Convention and Techworld®, March 11-15. None other than hall of fame quarterback with the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers, Joe Montana, has joined ICBA’s speaker line-up. Joe will be speaking during the second General Session on Thursday, March 14.
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News & Announcements
The March Issue of ICBA Independent Banker Is Out!
A profile of ICBA’s incoming chairman, Bill Loving of West Virginia, is the cover story for this month’s issue of ICBA Independent Banker. The 2013 ICBA National Convention issue, along with convention highlights, interviews community bankers in Las Vegas still steadily recovering from the Wall Street crisis and recession.
Other
stories include lessons from community banks that reorganized their staffs to ensure their long-term competitiveness; an FDIC study on long-term lending patterns by community banks; a data center cooperative jointly operated by three Michigan community banks; and a profile of the top Small Business Administration lender in Texas, Bank of the West.
Exclusive online coverage on IBmag.org this month includes a story on the family ICBA legacy of Pat DuBois as well as perspectives on smart cards and a “startup” management mindset.
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- Print subscriptions are in the mail, and free digital subscriptions are available by email to any employee of an ICBA member bank. To receive a digital subscription, send an email to ICBA
Independent Banker with your name(s), your bank’s name and address, and your email address.
News & Announcements
New Agreement Increases Merchant Services Options for Members
ICBA Bancard, the payments services subsidiary of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), has entered into a referral agreement with FIS™, the world’s largest provider of banking and payments technology, for merchant services.
New
FIS merchant services offerings will include point-of-sale equipment and terminal support, electronic draft capture and batch processing, as well as ACH settlement. The new arrangement will also include a gift card and loyalty program and has no additional costs for existing ICBA Bancard and FIS merchant services customers.More Information:
ICBA Member Access is Sponsored by QwickRate: Stop by booth #256 to enter a free iPad mini drawing and check out our new Bank Performance Report Card at the Convention. Also, be sure to attend our workshop Basel III: What Does it Really Mean to Community Banks at 11:15 am Tuesday in room Mouton 1. Contact us for more information.
Products and Services
Article: Helping Small Businesses Understand Cash Flow
As
community banks nurture their relationships with small business customers, it is critical to understand their daily cash flow challenges. Even businesses reporting strong earnings and cash flow at year end may experience stresses associated with payment collection, terms of sale, and payables management on a day-to-day basis. Three Dimensional Cash Flow, an article from ICBA Preferred Service Provider ProfitStars, helps community bankers to engage business clients in discussions on daily cash flow challenges and enables community bankers to help small business customers improve their daily cash flow.
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Products and Services
Newsletter: Services You Can Trust
ICBA has released the latest issue of Services You Can Trust,
featuring information about Bank Assetpoint, a new online platform offered by Promontory Interfinancial Network that helps banks connect with buyers and sellers of bank assets. Preferred Service Provider APPI Energy also provides information on the fluctuating prices of electricity and natural gas.
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Education
Webinar: Accelerate Growth & Avoid "Reg Strangulation"
The potentially crippling impact of regulation is top of mind for every community banking executive. Its harsh side-effects further amplify the pressure caused by shrinking net interest margins which are increasingly forcing the industry into a commoditized market. In this environment, larger banks, able to rationalize their costs, will compete on price and threaten the viability of smaller, community banks. So how do banking leaders in the community banking sector develop responsible innovation in today’s risk-averse, highly regulated environment? Attend this webinar to find out.
When: Tuesday, March 5 at 11 a.m. (Eastern time).
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Education
Audio Conference: Call Reports
Each
year the call report experiences revisions and this year is no different. Please attend this audio conference to understand and review the 2013 revisions that are due to both accounting standard changes and/or regulatory guidance changes. It is extremely important that you understand what information you will have to gather as a preparer of the call report. The audio conference will not only focus on 2013 revisions, but will also offer a quick review of 2012 revisions. Time will be available for questions and answers.
When: Wednesday, March 6 at 11 a.m. (Eastern time).
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Education
Loan Review Seminar Coming Up
ICBA is hosting an upcoming classroom seminar on structuring the loan process to ensure timely identification of problem credits, asset quality and accuracy. Loan Review—Implementing Best Practices will cover well-defined classification guidelines that ensure consistent loan ratings and accounting for the allowance for loan and lease losses to comply with generally accepted accounting principles.
When: Wednesday and Thursday, April 17-18 in Minneapolis, Minn.
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