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10 Lessons From The Small Business Banking Conference

South State Correspondent

Recently, the American Banker hosted their annual Small Business Banking Conference in Nashville, and as always, it was one of the better banking conferences of the year. A critical takeaway from the conference was the changing nature of small business needs and the changing nature of the small bank persona.

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10 Big Bank Marketing Lessons from the ABA Bank Marketing Conference

South State Correspondent

Last week, the American Banking Association (ABA) held its annual Bank Marketing Conference in Denver, receiving rave reviews. This is the power of networking at these conferences, as you can collect insights that you can’t do over video conferences. The theme was – developing your marketing superpowers.

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Amazon ‘Virtual Conference’ Aims To Bring Sellers, Experts Together

PYMNTS

Amazon will have a free, three-day “virtual conference” for sellers on its platform from Sept. According to the announcement, the Amazon Accelerate conference is bringing together small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) for its “largest-ever U.S. 1-3, the company announced on Wednesday (Aug. event dedicated to seller success.” .

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Activewear Brand Approaches D2C With A Purpose

PYMNTS

Anyone who works at fashion brand Bella+Canvas is familiar with the quote. Bella+Canvas is a California-based activewear brand with a unique mix of business models. As a D2C brand, Blakeslee believes his company has an effective platform for marketing and messaging. “I And what you do simply proves what you believe.”.

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Capstone Conference

Independent Banker

Young employees at the community bank in Madison, Wis., Recognizing the need to foster future leaders at the bank and across the industry, Park Bank, a $775 million-asset community bank with 185 employees, created a formal program last year to develop the talents and broaden the knowledge of its younger, most-promising employees.

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Malls Debate Turns To Community Planning

PYMNTS

More bankruptcies both announced ( Lucky Brand ) and rumored continue to shake the format. The risk of closing malls, the report said, has the potential to reshape entire communities, which are debating whether abandoned malls can be turned into office space or affordable housing. on the residential component.

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A community bank-fueled payments rail

Independent Banker

A secure, open-loop, cost-saving, customer-accessible, multiplatform P2P payments network might sound too good to be true, but community bank consortium Alloy Labs Alliance hopes to achieve just that with the CHUCK payment rail. A different kind of peer-to-peer payment service is now available, “built by community banks for community banks.”.