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5 reasons your financial institution should attend the ThinkBIG 2024 conference

Abrigo

The ThinkBIG 2024 conference is June 3-6 in Phoenix, Arizona, and with 99% of last year’s attendees saying they would recommend the conference to others, Abrigo expects another large crowd. The 2024 ThinkBIG conference offers two conference tracks along with larger general sessions that will set financial institutions up for success.

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CFPB Names Paul Watkins From AZ AG Office As Innovation Head

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced that Paul Watkins, a lawyer, will lead the agency’s newly created Office of Innovation. “I The Office of Innovation was recently created by Mulvaney to focus on a new priority for the agency: encouraging consumer-friendly innovation.

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Utah’s new regulatory sandbox

CFPB Monitor

This bill created the nation’s third regulatory sandbox program for fintechs, after Arizona , which enacted sandbox legislation in March 2018, and Wyoming , which enacted sandbox legislation in February of this year. Arizona’s program, in contrast, is administered by the Arizona Attorney General.

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Community Banks Debut FinTech Alliance

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The group, to be known as Alloy Labs Alliance, according to a press release , is being managed by FinTech Forge. Arizona, which launched a “sandbox” earlier this year, said last week that there is a new participant in that FinTech-driven initiative. Here In The States.

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Acquire or Be Acquired 2024: A Race to Perform … and Earn the Right to Transform 

Gonzobanker

Early this week, the conference was the epicenter of discussions, where 2,000 attendees descended upon Arizona to strategize and set the tone for our great industry’s future. As disruptive innovation finds a home in banking, the industry anticipates a surge in technology’s ability to drive tangible business outcomes.

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Senate Grills Facebook’s Marcus Over Libra

PYMNTS

We say defense because it was apparent from early in the hearing that the senators gathered were more than a little suspicious of Facebook’s latest innovation — and less than favorably inclined to letting it move forward. Brown was far from the only voice on the committee during the hearing with sharp words for the manager Facebook sent.

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Welcome to New Orleans

Independent Banker

Along with an expanded lineup of general session presentations, more than 200 companies will be exhibiting at Expo to discuss the industry’s latest product and service innovations. Tech entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author on business creativity, innovation and reinvention. Regulators Luncheon*. Coldwater, Ohio.