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Community Banks Debut FinTech Alliance

PYMNTS

To that end, news came earlier this week in the United States that a dozen community and regional banks have formed a group aimed at exploring the opportunities amid FinTech offerings. Arizona, which launched a “sandbox” earlier this year, said last week that there is a new participant in that FinTech-driven initiative.

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The Bank Legacy Is Dead: Long Live the Fintech Collision

Gonzobanker

It’s been a long two years since bankers and investment bankers nationwide made their annual pilgrimage to the Arizona desert for the Acquire or Be Acquired conference – and ohhh man, a completely different world has emerged since the January 2020 get-together! and a trailblazer in the world of banking as a service (BaaS).

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Bank Shareholder Liquidity Matters

Jeff For Banks

Annually 1,500 bankers and those that advise them gather in the Arizona desert for Bank Director's Acquire or Be Acquired (AOBA) conference. In spite of the conference name, it's not all about bank M&A, or the Hobson's Choice of hunting or being hunted. Suncrest sold in 2022 to CVB Financial Corp. and global companies.

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Welcome to New Orleans

Independent Banker

Welcome to the Crescent City, where the largest educational gathering of community bankers convenes this month. It’s Community Banking LIVE 2016 in New Orleans. Independent Community Bankers of America. Former Major League Baseball player and manager, chief baseball officer for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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Banking's Total Return Top 5: 2016 Edition

Jeff For Banks

billion in asset company headquartered in West Virginia, providing community banking services primarily in the Eastern Panhandle and South Central regions of the state, and the Northern and Shenandoah Valley regions of Virginia. (Nasdaq: SMMF) Summit Financial Group, Inc. Summit also operates an insurance subsidiary.