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The messaging tool that let Happy State Bank take its lending online

American Banker

The Texas bank is leaning on solutions from Lightico and MANTL to quickly set up accounts and handle loans when customers can’t sign documents in person because of the coronavirus emergency.

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Punching above its weight: Small N.J. bank uses tech to take on big rivals

American Banker

David Howard's leadership of the OceanFirst digital strategy and innovation team that has developed a robo adviser, an Alexa skill and other cutting-edge tools earned him recognition as one of American Banker's digital bankers of the year.

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FI Highlight: Farmer’s Exchange

Banking 2020

Earlier this year, Farmers Exchange Bank , a 57-year-old community bank with four branches across Alabama, went live with its new SaaS platform, Temenos Insight. Blair Osmer, Farmers Exchange Bank. We are still in the beginning stages of our use but we see two main ways in which data can be used.

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B2B FinTech On The Cusp Of Change

PYMNTS

200 community banks have cut ties with Lending Club following the sudden departure of the alternative lender’s CEO and the subsequent hit to share prices, which reverberated across other alt-finance players. SMEs want banks to offer bitcoin services , suggesting the cryptocurrency may not be such a failure after all.

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Banking at the Grocery Store

Banking 2020

With all due respect to tradition, our business is on the cutting edge, which includes a steady stream of new tools and technologies. As we noted earlier, even e-mail is rapidly falling behind other forms of communication via social channels, so a vast infrastructure designed mainly to carry paper around hardly seems like a good match.

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Q&A: What Search Engine Optimization Can Offer the Financial Services Industry

Banking 2020

For community banks or credit unions who are thinking about search, what would you say is the easiest way for someone to get started with a program? A financial institution’s goals should be something that’s really going to show engagement with a product that they offer or with the bank overall. Sabrina : That makes sense.

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Q&A: What SEO Can Offer the Financial Services Industry

Banking 2020

For community banks or credit unions who are thinking about search, what would you say is the easiest way for someone to get started with a program? A financial institution’s goals should be something that’s really going to show engagement with a product that they offer or with the bank overall. Sabrina: That makes sense.