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ICBA: Building Bridges For The Next Generation Of Community Banks

PYMNTS

Community banking can be one of the most rewarding and most challenging areas of financial services in which to work — that’s the view, anyway, of Rebeca Romero Rainey, president and CEO of Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) , who recently joined the nation’s leading advocacy organization that exclusively represents community banks.

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SoftBank To Lead $125M Round For LATAM FinTech AlphaCredit

PYMNTS

It provides credit lines to individuals and has usually worked in communities without much access to banks. Alcanza Capital and Bontu. There will be other leading venture capital firms from international waters also joining with SoftBank, though the press release does not list them.

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More Bank-Fintech Partnerships Emerge as Groups Embrace Digital

Banking Exchange

Customers Bank, Capital Bank and Community 1st Credit Union among the latest to embrace financial technology Technology Financial Trends Payments Feature3 Fintech Feature Lines of Business Tech Management Mobile Online Cards Blockchain PPP Covid19 Community Banking.

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Virtual communities and digital worlds

Lex Sokolin

Our communities and networks have become increasingly digital. That means that our physical communities are also our digital communities. But it still is an important thing to say as it relates to commerce and financial services. They are paying for community?—?admission And here’s the other side of the coin.

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New Greenlight Financial Round Pushes Valuation Past $1.2B

PYMNTS

FinTech company Greenlight Financial Technology , which makes products to help parents raise financially literate children, said Thursday (Sept. The round also included new investors BOND, DST Global, Goodwater Capital and Fin VC and Greenlight’s first institutional investor, Relay Ventures.

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Fintech Deals to Watch: Fall Festivities

Gonzobanker

Treasury management provider Dragonfly Financial Technologies launched independently from an ACI Worldwide sale. Core: Core-n Mazes and Hayrides FIS acquired embedded finance provider Bond Financial Technologies and announced plans to spin off merchant solutions (to be named Worldpay ).

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10 Top Banking Podcasts You Should be Listening to

Abrigo

Other podcasts might be internationally based and of little interest to community financial institutions or credit unions based in the U.S. Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers 8. Listen to the podcast episode, " How To Sleep Easier at Night About Capital and Risk Levels.". Banking Transformed 2.

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