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Scottsdale Community Bank: Making microloans

Independent Banker

Inspired by the entrepreneurship of lemonade stands, Scottsdale Community Bank created a microloan program. Photo by Brandon Sullivan De novo Scottsdale Community Bank set out to provide microloans to small and mid-size businesses, family organizations and nonprofits—a project that was inspired by the humble lemonade stand.

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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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Things I Wish Bankers Did Better: Project Management

Jeff For Banks

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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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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Small Bank-Big Bank: Spending on People, Technology

Jeff For Banks

That explains why no hands went up at the Pacific Coast Banking School when the director asked how many students went to college to be community bankers. So if the altruist wants to work for a community bank that is closer to its communities, they can make more with big brother. I'm sure Tombstone is nice.

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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.