Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

The payments space can be dizzying for even the most enterprising community bank. How do you navigate the constant churn of innovations or disruptors? Banking-as-a-service (BaaS). Central bank digital currency (CBDC). Photo by Jorg Greuel/Getty. By Colleen Morrison. Faster payments. Cryptocurrency.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Fallout from recent global events presents an obstacle to generating revenue for community banks. It’s certainly an interesting time to be a community bank, but there are still plenty of ways to make efficiencies with an eye on profitability. ? But one of the biggest problems in community banking today is a fear of risk.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

Faced with several transitional issues, here’s how these community banks gained support from their new providers to adapt to the change. Two years before changing core processors, Asian Bank began conducting weekly meetings to brainstorm attributes its dream core provider would possess. When Del Norte Bank in Del Norte, Colo.,

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 26, 2016

Schwanhausser suggests that motivating online activities or games that help customers meet savings, investing and other money management goals—or perhaps understand more about banking, entrepreneurship or protecting personal information identity theft—can help build a financial safety net and lend themselves to game technology quite nicely.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 26, 2015

At some community banks, budgeting for technology has become a more important focus over the past several years. If the project is something that can make a bank more profitable in the short term or long term, the bank should make the purchase, whether it was budgeted for or not. State Bank and Trust Co.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The Internet of Things, also known as the Industrial Internet, is where networked smart devices communicate to powerfully automate a multitude of complex tasks for both consumers and businesses, potentially including community banks. Michael Blankenheim is a freelance writer in Maryland. in Stamford, Conn.,

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Once upon a time, community banks were more than happy to leave the chore of choosing technical devices and running networks to their chief technology officers. One increasingly prominent way for community bank chief information officers to help formulate strategy is to collaborate more closely with marketing heads and with others.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

In the late 90s, low interest rates made speculative equity investments more attractive than bonds, and at the same time, innovative internet companies grew in popularity among retail investors, professional traders, venture capitalists, and the like (familiar?). Remember K Bank in Maryland? What caused a dot-com bubble?

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Even if you’re not required to use either version of the Cybersecurity Assessment, beta users say it can help your community bank gauge its cybersecurity risks and ultimately guard against cybercrime. At the Bank of Luxemburg, a $290 million-asset community bank in Luxemburg, Wis., That could stifle innovation.”.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Even if you’re not required to use either version of the Cybersecurity Assessment, beta users say it can help your community bank gauge its cybersecurity risks and ultimately guard against cybercrime. At the Bank of Luxemburg, a $290 million-asset community bank in Luxemburg, Wis., That could stifle innovation.”.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Digital banking solutions for community banks and credit unions. A turnkey solution incorporating CRM, invoicing and payments into a simple solution for the business delivered through the bank’s digital banking solution. Innovative AI chat and voice solutions to empower banking customers.

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