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Community Banks Accelerate FinTech Integrations

PYMNTS

This week’s look at the latest bank-FinTech tie-ups shows Banking-as-a-Service and other FinTech players embracing smaller regional and community banks to elevate small- to medium-sized business (SMBs) and corporate banking offerings. For more community banks, the latter strategy can fast-track digitization initiatives.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions For Any Sized Bank That You Must Get Right in 2023

South State Correspondent

In addition, they may consider focusing on these five critical areas: Improve Operating Leverage. To improve the quality of their earnings, banks need their number one focus to be on making their operations more efficient. To the extent projects improve operating leverage and the total experience, so much the better.

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Alphabet Tracker: Waiting For Earnings, Waymo Grows Testing

PYMNTS

Rather, Waymo is offering households in the Phoenix, Arizona, area a chance to incorporate the company’s self-driving tech into their daily routines — a live test with live folks. Waymo has not disclosed how many total vehicles will be operating in the region during the expanded public tests. Been there, done that.)

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Investments Stay Afloat And Thrive Market Bags $111 Million

PYMNTS

Organic delivery service Good Eggs was forced to pull back its operations to the San Francisco Bay area after they learned what so many who deliver consumer groceries have learned before: it’s much harder than it looks to get to scale and make money while doing it. And it is a segment that has seen casualties. This Week In Investments

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Android of the Auto Industry? How Baidu May Race Ahead Of Google, Tesla, And Others In Autonomous Vehicles

CB Insights

investment fund dedicated to startups innovating in the AV space. In many ways, Apollo resembles Google’s Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Google’s open software platform for a mobile operating system (OS) that launched in 2007. In-house still matters: the evolution of Baidu’s R&D spend. in Frisco, Texas.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

It is an innovator with tech (e.g., Consumers was the first big credit union to deploy the Phoenix core system and this year was the first big go-live of the Lumin digital banking system. Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph said the leading trait of an innovator is identifying pain. The bank’s strategy is laser-focused.

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Top 5 Decision Management Posts of 2022: AI and Digital Jane

FICO

Recognising that we need diversity in innovation and teams is the first step. Many organizations, including data science teams, derail innovation with internal competition that fragments resources and energy. in costs and an impressive 1,580 metric tons of emissions once its operations are fully optimized.