Abound Blog & News
Learn about recent and upcoming Abound Resources' news and noteworthy topics regarding the community and regional financial institution landscape.
COMMUNITY BANKING: Can we build a better mousetrap?
Read the latest article by Brad Smith on the ABA Banking Journal website where he discusses the 6 strategies for community bank success in 2012.
http://www.ababj.com/briefing/community-banking-can-we-build-a-better-mousetrap-2765.html
ICBA Independent Banker Magazine: Linking The Lending Loop by Ken Norkin
Abound Resources Survey Reveals that Community Banks Ready to Lend and Spend Again
Third annual survey shows that community bank CEOs are optimistic about 2012 but remain concerned about the weak economy, loan demand and regulatory burden.
AUSTIN, Texas – According to Abound Resources’ recent survey of community bank executives, CEOs are feeling more positive than last year in spite of the regulatory cloud. Almost half of CEOs (42%) feel either somewhat optimistic or very optimistic about 2012.
Abound Resources Survey Reveals that Credit Unions Expect Technologies to Drive Efficiencies
Third annual survey also shows that credit union CEOs are optimistic about 2012 but remain concerned about the weak economy, loan demand and regulatory burden.
AUSTIN, Texas – According to Abound Resources’ survey of more than 450 senior credit union executives, CEOs are feeling more positive than last year in spite of the regulatory cloud. Only 16% report that they are either somewhat or very pessimistic about 2012 and almost half of CEOs (43%) feel either somewhat optimistic or very optimistic about 2012.
How Hungry for Risk is Your Bank?
If this most recent banking crisis has pointed up the need for anything, it is that financial institution executives must understand the potential future risk consequences of strategic business decisions they make today. When many made the decision in 2004 and 2005 to grow, funding speculative acquisition, development and construction loans with wholesale funds, did they actually understand whether the institution could survive effects of a severe downturn in the real estate market and a prolonged recession?
Abound Resources, Austin,TX, has formed a Abound Resources Honored With IBAT Five-Star Award
OCTOBER 24, 2011 - PRESS RELEASE
Abound Staff Volunteers To Clean Up After Bastrop Fires
Beth Dalton, Advisor/Controller, and Deirdre Grubbs, Marketing Manager, joined local volunteers in helping to clean up properties damaged in the deadly Bastrop, Texas fires.
Putting Some New Moves on "Old" Money - by Lisa Valentine, Contributing Editor, ABA Banking Journal
The first use of currency dates back to 3000 B.C. in Mesopotamia and for more than 5,000 years, merchants and banks have been involved in the time-consuming, largely manual cash logistics business.
