Community Banks - In the Business of Helping Small Businesses

Community banks can have a tremendous effect on the success of the small businesses around them. For decades, community banks have been the backbone to entrepreneurship in America and are critical in the start-up phase of small businesses.  Community Banks are responsible for over 40 percent of all small business loans awarded in America¹. This shows that small businesses are more likely to receive the help they need from community banks than their larger counterparts.

Speaker Spotlight: Erez Saf

Erez Saf

CEO

We are excited to introduce Erez Saf from CRiskCo as one of our guest speakers at our user group conference in Little Rock, AR next week.

Speaker Spotlight: Karl Falk

Karl Falk

Founder & CEO

We are excited to introduce Karl Falk from Botdoc as one of our guest speakers at our user group conference in Little Rock, AR next week.

Speaker Spotlight: Aaron Dunn

Aaron Dunn

Founder & President

We are excited to introduce Aaron Dunn from Collateral Valuation Consultants as one of our guest speakers at our user group conference in Little Rock, AR next week.

Speaker Spotlight: Randy Dennis

Randy Dennis

President, Managing Partner

We are excited to introduce Randy Dennis from DD&F Consulting Group as one of our guest speakers at our user group conference in Little Rock, AR next week.

Teslar User Group Conference

Teslar will be hosting it's first user group conference next week, April 23-24, at the Federal Reserve Branch in Little Rock, AR. We look forward to seeing some of our users and we are excited for our guest speaker lineup.

Coming to Teslar - Summer 2019

During our time in the ICBA ThinkTech Accelerator, we met with and presented to many leaders of community banks. While we received many compliments on our solution, we received one piece of feedback time and time again after presenting - "This is great, but I wish that our lenders had access to this in the field."

Annual Teach Children to Save Day 2019

Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the Teach Children To Save (TCTS) program sponsored by the American Bankers Association (ABA) Foundation. TCTS is a free, banker-driven national program that is focused on teaching kids primarily in grades K-8 about banking careers, interest, money savings, and more.

It's a Wrap, Folks - ICBA Demo Day

Founder and CEO, Joe Ehrhardt presented last week at the ICBA ThinkTECH Demo Day hosted by the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub. Also presenting were cohorts Adlumin, Agora, Botdoc, CRiskCo, KapitalWise, MK Decision, and Sou Sou.

April is Financial Literacy Month

Establishing and maintaining healthy financial habits is an important part of daily life. Various studies and surveys had found that kids, teenagers, and young adults were not being taught how to manage personal finances, credit cards, retirement funds, debt, etc. by parents or the educational systems.^[1] Given that, the US Senate felt it was important to establish a month dedicated to promoting financial literacy and generally raise awareness to the importance of financial education.^[1] Initially, the US Senate designated April as Financial Literacy for Youth Month in 2003 and established the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, supported by the Office of Financial Education of the Department of the Treasury.^[1] However in March of 2004, Senator Daniel Akaka of Hawaii proposed a resolution to designate April more generally as Financial Literacy Month.^[1] The resolution passed unanimously and without amendment during the 108th Congress.^[1]