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5 reasons your financial institution should attend the ThinkBIG 2024 conference

Abrigo

Attendees return from ThinkBIG energized and informed so they can continue positively impacting their institutions and, more importantly, their communities. The 2024 ThinkBIG conference offers two conference tracks along with larger general sessions that will set financial institutions up for success.

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Bank IT Spending – Use These Metrics to Improve Performance

South State Correspondent

In this article, we partner with Gartner to look at 2024 key IT metrics and provide strategic insight into how much your bank should be spending on IT. For perspective, 2023 and what we expect for 2024 can be characterized as keeping up with revenue. of total expenses; in 2024, this number is expected to be 11.2%.

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Beautycounter Embraces D2C Innovation With Purpose

PYMNTS

No matter how innovative they are, companies still need to get paid. And not many companies this year have combined business model creativity with payments innovation more than Beautycounter. We’ve listened to our community and their requests for different payment options – more and more retailers are offering this as an option.

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Today In Data: Intelligence Of Things Pushes Innovation

PYMNTS

in the form of smart poles that improve urban communities’ access to wireless networks and LED lighting. IoT-enabled televisions, refrigerators and even vehicles are becoming mainstream, and even smartwatches are seeing the effects of connected innovation. 82 million | Projected value of smart sensor market revenue by 2024 in USD.

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Investing in America: 7 Strategies and 7 Tactics That Can Drive Business

South State Correspondent

These programs aim, in part, to mobilize the private sector by pairing its capital with public investment to stimulate American manufacturing and infrastructure improvement, creating new jobs plus innovating in industries like clean energy and technology. Before educating your customers and communities, you must start with your bankers.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. Expect more deals to be announced in 2024.

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Podcast: How flexible is your core? A new tool to help assess

ABA Community Banking

On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, Kristiane Koontz discusses ABA's recent work on core resilience and competition, as well as the Core Platforms Committee's plans for 2024. The post Podcast: How flexible is your core? A new tool to help assess appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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