PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Are community banks missing the chance to climb aboard the faster payments train? With various banks and FinTechs producing innovative solutions — like mobile banking and P2P tools aimed at improving the speed of payments — the pressure is on for community banks to keep up. faster payments system.

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Payments Source

AUGUST 16, 2017

Collaboration will help make up for cost concerns from adopting the technology and ensure that the core vendors get the message of community banks’ interest.

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Banking Exchange

JANUARY 23, 2023

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Long Lasting Ideas

OCTOBER 16, 2017

His investment soared to several thousand dollars and then, seemingly in a flash, my son’s $100 investment that blossomed to make him feel for a moment like a blockchain Warren Buffet was gone, wiped out by alleged embezzlement by the company’s head, French national Mark Karpeles.

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Banking Exchange

MAY 26, 2021

Customers Bank, Capital Bank and Community 1st Credit Union among the latest to embrace financial technology Technology Financial Trends Payments Feature3 Fintech Feature Lines of Business Tech Management Mobile Online Cards Blockchain PPP Covid19 Community Banking.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

One financial technology firm currently navigating the process of securing a bank charter is Avanti Financial Group , and as it approaches market launch, Founder and CEO Caitlin Long said the firm is focusing on another area of financial services that has struggled to manage complex regulatory challenges: digital assets.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

We asked several banking leaders how they’ve employed fintech to ramp up their marketing campaigns, hone their analytic strategies and gain new patrons in the process. The digital world has opened vastly broader avenues for community banks to attract new customers—especially if they partner with fintechs in their endeavors.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

The city hopes that the plan will revive the local economy, as well as secure Busan’s position as a leader in blockchain. And Jeffrey Berns announced that he has acquired a small community bank for $28 million.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

In the March X-Border Receivables Report, PYMNTS looks at how companies are launching a variety of new services aimed at improving the flow of payments in several different markets — and how blockchain-based solutions are gaining prominence as a viable cross-border payment solution. News from the Cross-Border Space.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This year, you’ve probably heard me say that ICBA is focused on three pillars: community bank advocacy, education and innovation. As I put on three hats—consumer, community banker, and ICBA president and CEO (in no particular order)—I see three specific opportunities for innovation. Exciting, right?

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Maybe instead of Acquire or Be Acquired, this conference should be called Evolve or Be Acquired,” observed Eric Sprink, CEO of Coastal Community Bank in Everett, Wash., and a trailblazer in the world of banking as a service (BaaS). The difference could be seen in what alpha bankers bragged about.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

From community banks to central banks, the need for faster payments is gripping financial institutions (FIs) of all shapes and sizes. FIs worldwide are making bold pushes to increase their payment speed, from Australia’s new real-time payments scheme to Saudi Arabia’s turn to blockchain.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

The regulators will also share policy ideas to ensure they are up-to-date in areas such as artificial intelligence, Big Data and blockchain. But those who do use the approach, including commercial banks, community banks and other FIs, report being more satisfied with their most recent product launches than those that do not.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While this lesson sounds evident, most banks do not set and track clear goals for their marketing efforts. Bank Marketing Lesson 8: Crypto, Blockchain, Digital Assets, and NFTs. There were two educational overviews to help bankers better understand the current state of crypto, blockchain, digital assets, and NFTs in banking.

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Payments Source

JULY 3, 2017

Though they face an array of competitive threats — from digital currencies to peer-to-peer payment apps — the vast majority of community banks do not have a payments strategy, according to a recent survey.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

CU-focused blockchain solutions developer CULedger joined forces with software solutions provider Evernym to launch the MyCUID solution. The program aims to accelerate the integration and deployment of digital banking technologies and to improve member experiences. Lawmakers aren’t the only ones coming together.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Last year, JPMorgan Chase announced an initiative to open new bank branches in an effort to better address small businesses’ needs, sparking a conversation about what effect bank branch closures actually have on small businesses — and whether entrepreneurs even want physical bank locations at all.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Even with technology’s increasing influence on retail banking, it’s not typical for a community bank to have one of its most senior and trusted executives concentrate primarily on leading consumer product and payments innovation. billion-asset, 85-branch community bank based in Rockland, Mass., is not typical.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

The financial services market has progressed by leaps and bounds in terms of innovation, from the rise of alternative finance to the development of technologies like blockchain and open banking initiatives. Below, PYMNTS breaks down some of the key data in the SBA’s report that initiated the development of those recommendations.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

He said community banks and credit unions (CUs) have tended be on the trailing edge when it comes to digital. Cross-Border Friction — And Bitcoins And Blockchain. In the bid to streamline and secure payments cross border, bitcoin and digital currencies have been much in the news, as has blockchain.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Community banks and credit unions also offered their backing. They stated that major banks have too much control over the RTP system and that they regarded the Fed as a compelling and more equitable alternative to achieving payments ubiquity. The Clearing House (TCH), for instance, has voiced its opposition.

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American Banker

JUNE 23, 2016

How Key Private Bank's CEO is looking to transform the business (hint: it has a lot to do with women); algorithms in hiring promise a new way to bring diversity to Wall Street; the CFPB has some work to do in improving its treatment of women and minorities.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 6, 2016

Around the web: Kasasa partners with AudioEye to offer accessibility for community banks. Ripple launches blockchain pilot program in partnership with Expertus. Banking Technology reports that Temenos is nearing a core banking software deal with Iran’s Ayandeh Bank (Future Bank).

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American Banker

MARCH 3, 2016

Bank of America's mobile app can do almost everything that used to require a branch visit, says Michelle Moore; Lebenthal and four other women-owned firms land a big deal on Wall Street; Sallie Krawcheck joins the board of Blythe Masters' blockchain startup; Morgan Stanley's Carla Harris says both skills and spirituality contributed to her success.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The most valuable of these freshly minted unicorns are blockchain startup Ripple ($10B valuation) and challenger banks Chime ($5.8B) and N26 ($3.5B). In the same month, small business lenders Kabbage and BlueVine both announced plans to offer banking services to SMBs.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

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. Explore how B2B FinTech is on the cusp of change as we break down all of the statistics and surveys below.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

This is an extension of business services, powered by a local community bank. A mobile wallet powered by a local bank, built on the Malauzai platform. This certainly adds a lot of technological capacity to the community bank. Malauzai enables the community bank to build their own app, “local mobile wallets.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

214 | The number of banks surveyed in the PYMNTS Bank Innovation Readiness Index, in collaboration with payments solutions provider i2c. It also included banks outside this profile and represents a broad range of FIs reflective of the market.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

To get a bit more granular, in an interpretive letter , the OCC said that regulated financial institutions (FIs) can participate in independent node verification networks (INVN for short – namely, a blockchain network).

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Goes to Eric Sprink, Coastal Community Bank , Everett, Wash. Eric has always been a student of innovation, and now at Coastal, this fearless leader has spearheaded a number of high-profile banking-as-a-service partnerships. Since 2017, ROAE has grown from 7% to approximately 20% and ROAA has increased from.82% 82% to over 2.3%

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Four Finovate alums were among the bunch: CBANC Network took in $4 million for it’s community bank information network. Digital currency platform for central banks. Tags: Central bank, crypto-currency, bitcoin. Only two companies topped 7-figures, real estate specialist EasyProperty ($37.6 Source: Finovate.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. The Underhyped Tech of the Year – Blockchain. Core System Deal of the Year: Bank. and JAM FINTOP to create a Bank-Minted Tokenized Deposit Referencing Fiat Currency on Blockchain.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Community bank marketing resources. With market opportunity heating up and big bank and big credit union competitors hitting hard, too many community banks lack marketing resources … or they have 2X more spending in sponsorships than the campaigns, analytics and digital sales improvements that actually bring in new business.

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American Banker

JULY 20, 2016

Here's what banks need to know. Confusion among bankers on what real-time ACH payments are and how the transactions are processed is a major barrier to adoption in the U.S.

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The single biggest threat to banks today is imposed by those people who run them. John Waupsh , Author, Bankruption: How Community Banking Can Survive Fintech > (Wiley, November 2016). The threat is not so much legacy infrastructure as it is legacy thinking. A technology sandbox for fintech.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

For community banks, there’s power in numbers. According to the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), a trade group that advocates on behalf of about 6,000 community banks of various sizes in the U.S., But community banks still face tough competition from larger financial institutions.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Digital banking solutions for community banks and credit unions. A turnkey solution incorporating CRM, invoicing and payments into a simple solution for the business delivered through the bank’s digital banking solution. Helps institutions discover and execute their blockchain strategies. AlphaPoint.

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