PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

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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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Academy Bank COO Tom Kientz notes that the community bank was eager to expand its deposit and loan services. Looking for an avenue to increase its deposit base, Academy Bank tapped into a market it hadn’t explored before: homeowners associations. Academy Bank in Kansas City, Mo., Photo by Jason Tracy.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 15, 2015

With mortgage rates down in the US , many homebuyers are looking locally to their community banks to finance their new, potentially life-changing purchase. In the spirit of the go local movement, new data from Sageworks Bank Information peeked in on 10 cities to see which community banks were making an impact on local mortgage lending.

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American Banker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Denver-based InBank will expand into Georgia and Arizona, part of a wider plan to seize market share and build what one executive called a top-tier SBA lender.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

On September 17, 2021 in the Scottsdale, Arizona desert, I delivered a speech to a ballroom full of bankers titled: 5 Things I Wish We Did Better. It was well received and was recently picked up by a banking school as an elective class. I used the embedded commercial as indicative of the life span of a project at a community bank.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

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. And at AOBA, Laura Hamilton of OTC Markets Group, Inc.,

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