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How Small FIs’ SMB Lending Journeys Nudge The US Toward Open Banking

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For community banks and credit unions, their physical proximity to the small businesses they’re servicing is often pointed out as a major advantage these smaller players hold over the big banks, enabling these FIs to develop deeper relationships with their small to medium-size business (SMB) clients, anticipate their needs and establish trust.

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How Millennial Ethics Are Reshaping Fintech

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Over the next few decades, baby boomers and Gen X will pass on $30T in wealth to the millennial generation. PREPARE FOR THE FINTECH FUTURE. As investor preferences shift, download our free 106-page fintech report to see what trends to watch in 2019. GET THE 106-PAGE FINTECH TRENDS REPORT. But a shift is happening.

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Why Community Banks Can’t Afford To ‘Wait and See’ About Faster Payment Innovations

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Are community banks missing the chance to climb aboard the faster payments train? The report included several recommendations for banks, FinTechs and other financial services players — guidelines to establish an industry-driven framework for governing the system and encourage further research and investment in emerging financial technologies.

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Fintech Partnerships: A competitive advantage

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Many banks and credit unions have found a path to growth via partnerships with fintechs. Technology partners offer much more than just software to banks; a fintech partnership provides delivery channels, convenience, corporate governance , advisory services, and industry data. Are customers requesting new products?

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6 realities for banks about lending to small businesses

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Most notably, the institutions recognized that change was overdue for their business lending programs. Understand and meet the desires of millennial borrowers, who will constitute 75 percent of the workforce by 2025. Community banks worry they are in a lose-lose situation.

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

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And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. The rise of FinTech offers a bit of a prism through which to view those events. As for lending to businesses, banks have still been a bit hesitant to lend to smaller firms.

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10 Top Banking Podcasts You Should be Listening to

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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. Breaking Banks Breaking Banks , billed as the #1 global fintech podcast and radio show, began in 2013 and is hosted by media firm Provoke.fm.

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