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The ICBA 22/23 executive committee is all in

Independent Banker

Omaha, Neb. I will also emphasize the importance of financial literacy and our need to engage and connect through all communications channels, but especially on social media. Recent proposals for collecting data on consumers and small businesses bog down the process and drive up unnecessary cost for all customers.

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Employee Spotlight: Ben Pankonin

Social Assurance

What made you want to start a company like Social Assurance? At the 2011 Big Omaha event — a technology and entrepreneurial conference — I met Matt Secoske and we collaborated over coffee. At that meeting I proposed the Social Assurance idea to him and the rest is history. “ What do you like most about your job? .