Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

SoFI gets a commercial bank that brings deposits, compliance, AND business lending. Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. Acquisition of the Year: The No Time to Breathe Award. Provident Financial Services, Inc. Bravo April!

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Meanwhile, technology changes continued at a breakneck pace, with generative AI the biggest topic around management tables. The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet. We are in awe.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 4, 2016

There is strength in numbers, and there’s absolutely no reason for community bankers to try to compete against players a hundred times bigger on their own. They find new opportunities to accelerate development and drive stronger performance in areas like mobile technology, business intelligence, shared back-office services and cybersecurity.

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Independent Banker

JULY 29, 2016

The demand for professional development opportunities for community bankers has never been greater. Last year Community Banker University’s eight certification programs provided more than 4,000 community bankers with highly tailored training.

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Jeff For Banks

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Things look grim for us: community financial institutions (collectively, "banks") and those that serve those august institutions. Now our politicians are doing everything in their power to get us to lend, while their examiner surrogates are doing everything in their power to criticize our loans. We are a community bank.

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 21, 2017

The vendor development and enhancement road map is the biggest lie in our industry, and thus banker trust of vendors has reached rock bottom at a time when technology ambitions have never been more important. D+H (and before, Harland) promised integrated loan and core systems and specialized credit union functionality in the Phoenix EFE core.

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 21, 2017

The vendor development and enhancement road map is the biggest lie in our industry, and thus banker trust of vendors has reached rock bottom at a time when technology ambitions have never been more important. But technology vendors, which cash the biggest individual checks banks write, get a walk. Either double down on U.S.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

There is an understanding that technology and fintech are going to cause radical change, but the how, how big and when are still very unclear. A finance pro who was not afraid of technology, Trylko brought respect and class to every endeavor he undertook. GonzoBankers, 2019 was a year of extremes. billion of assets under management.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The societal benefit of financing our communities has to beat sugar water, right? can make analog more valuable if we drive community interest in branch facilities to learn from one another instead of another investments seminar-lecture. Washington Financial’s Betty Guerrieri and Jamie Anders with Eric Weikart.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Nothing seems to put a bounce in a banker’s step more than a tax break and regulatory relief, and this bountiful energy was radiating at Bank Director’s annual “mecca” for bank M&A in Phoenix last week – Acquire or be Acquired. For those in the know – simply AOBA. Source: SNL. Source: Federal Reserve.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In the age of Twitter, Apple Pay and Lending Club, it’s important to remember the shareholder performance delivered by Gleason and team when compared to the behemoths. It’s nice to see somebody passionate about using new payments technology to make banking easier and cheaper for the financially disadvantaged. Bravo OZRK!

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

I think ever since GonzoBanker’s mother ship, Cornerstone Advisors , was founded over 13 years ago, Bank Director has hosted its “Acquire or Be Acquired” conference (or, as all the regulars call it, “AOBA”) in our back yard here in sunny Scottsdale or Phoenix, Ariz. Well, my partner Steve Williams and I finally broke down and attended.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 22, 2016

million for its P2P lending platform for small businesses. Emailage raised an undisclosed sum for its fraud prevention technology keyed off email address. Alt-lender focused on lending against existing automobile titles. P2P real estate lending marketplace. Peer-to-peer lending marketplace. SmartAsset raised $3.8

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