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Making Mortgages Happen Amid Higher Interest Rates

Higher interest rates are discouraging many consumers from taking out new mortgages or refinancing existing ones—but community banks are taking steps to fill their pipelines in innovative ways while they wait for the cycle to trend upward again.

By Beth Mattson-Teig

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The Lending Outlook for 2024

By Beth Mattson-Teig

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Using Data to Boost Mortgage Lending

By Tom Groenfeldt

By Rachel Hatcher

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Is There a Single “Right” Answer to Implementing Digital Lending?
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Who are ICBA's Top Lenders of 2023?
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Smart Strategies for Community Bank Construction Lending

By Beth Mattson-Teig

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How University Bank is redressing redlining

By William Atkinson

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Overcoming banking hurdles for Native American customers

By Beth Mattson-Teig

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What young borrowers want in the loan journey

By Jen A. Miller

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What’s a special-purpose credit program?

By Mary Thorson Wright

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Who made ICBA's 2021 list of Top Lenders?

By Ed Avis

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Will 2021 be another banner year for mortgage lending?

By Beth Mattson-Teig

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Community Bank CEO Outlook 2021: What's the path ahead?

By Kelly Pike

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2021’s lending outlook: cautious optimism

By Beth Mattson-Teig