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Helping Community Banks Turn On The Innovation Switch

PYMNTS

Innovation has always been important for community banks, but the driving force of digitization over the last decade has greatly sped up the pace, said Kevin Tweddle, chief innovation officer for the Independent Community Bankers of America ( ICBA ). Community banking is no exception. Leveling the Playing Field.

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EBay's Apple, Square pacts could strangle community banks

Payments Source

With just two partnerships, eBay is cutting off a big opportunity for community banks.

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10 Top Banking Podcasts You Should be Listening to

Abrigo

Weeding through banking podcasts to find gems. million podcasts in the world, you might find it daunting to weed through the lists on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, or other platforms to find the best banking podcasts. Lending & Credit Risk. Lending & Credit Risk. Regular, Timely Episodes. Indeed, with 2.8

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Will "Plain Vanilla" Kill Community Banking?

Jeff For Banks

I was at a strategic planning retreat a few weeks back where a colleague lauded the concept of bankers getting back to plain vanilla community banking. But if you read or watch interviews of CEOs of community FIs from 2008 forward, you will be bombarded with the message that they didn''t engage in the things that led to the collapse.

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StoneCastle’s Joshua Siegel Talks Cambr, Which Lets Non-Banks Play Bank

Bank Innovation

Cambr, a cloud-based platform powered by investment firm StoneCastle and digital banking software provider Q2 Holdings, is helping neo-banks and fintechs launch and scale up through a network of 850 community banks.

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

PYMNTS

Walmart claimed it wanted to leverage the proposed bank mainly for the purpose of lowering costs of its backroom processing of check and credit card transactions and to offer high-interest certificates of deposits. Square already has an SMB lending arm – Square Capital – which it operates through a deal with Utah-based Celtic Bank.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

The latest twists came in September, when one of the biggest technology and payments events of the year featured the announcement of Apple Inc.’s s entry into the payments business with Apple Pay. So where do ballyhooed mobile banking and payments developments among the biggest players leave community banks?

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