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3 Ways Financial Institutions Can Step Up for Underserved Communities

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The financial services industry must consider its customer experience game while also grappling with a sense of distrust from many communities due to systematic barriers, maintaining utmost accessibility due to the essentiality of the business, and the lack of financial literacy across the country. Trust and Transparency. .

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Bitcoin Daily: Monerium Partners With Algorand To Enable Blockchain Transactions; Square To Build Lightning Development Kit To Enhance Bitcoin Wallets

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The Algorand leadership has taken a pragmatic and deliberate approach in designing a blockchain for mainstream applications while staying close to the ethos of the open-source community,” said Sveinn Valfells, co-founder and CEO of Monerium. “Supporting new blockchains with mainstream relevance is a priority for Monerium.”

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Shopify Opens Second Office In Toronto

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Photos reveal that the space features lofty ceilings, rustic wooden beams and the oh-so-trendy communal work spaces, with benefits including free lunches, events and activities. We see so much potential, even in what the Toronto community looks like from a tech perspective, from a UX perspective; there’s so much talent in Toronto.”.

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Who Owns Digital? Ugh, That’s the Problem for Bankers

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financial institution executives surveyed for What’s Going On In Banking 2022 , 19% of community banks and 10% of credit unions had not launched a digital transformation strategy prior to this year, and another 15% had no plans to do so. Among 300 U.S. Own It, Bankers! The post Who Owns Digital?

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

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Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. It’s hard to understand how Clobes has time in the day to drive her unlimited amount of leadership activities. Provident Financial Services, Inc. merges with Lakeland Bancorp. Bravo April!

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Consumer-centric Digital Experience in Healthcare

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In fact, working with healthcare organizations across the country, I hear from leadership over and over again: I want to create the Amazon experience! Or even Fitbit, which knows who you are and shares with your personally-built community. “Consumer-centric experience” has become a buzzword in healthcare circles. Personalization.

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IBM Acquires Red Hat: So What?

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Being open sourced, the Red Hat community is able to create forks of the base Red Hat code that carries the open source licensing. Red Hat’s own community-supported edition of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Use of Red Hat Linux as a platform for Oracle RDMS and DNA has, for the most part, replaced the use of UNIX (HP-UX, etc.)