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Function Over Flash

Independent Banker

Certain mobile functions and features are essential to the success of a community bank’s mobile banking offerings. Newfangled mobile capabilities could help community banks stand apart from their competitors. Funds transfer (within same bank). Deciding which mobile features and functions to offer.

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Function Over Flash

Independent Banker

Certain mobile functions and features are essential to the success of a community bank’s mobile banking offerings. Newfangled mobile capabilities could help community banks stand apart from their competitors. Funds transfer (within same bank). Deciding which mobile features and functions to offer.

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Talking in a Digital World

Independent Banker

Customer contact centers are reshaping retail service for the technology age. Increasingly, more digitally connected consumers are saying yes to that question with their community bank. Some even assume their bank will interact with them however and whenever they want. Bob Meara, retail banking expert.

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American Greed: Can being an honest broker be banks and credit unions competitive advantage?

Jeff For Banks

According to a 2012 Boston College Center for Retirement Research study , 63% of American males (why only males I do not know) participated exclusively in defined contribution (DC) retirement plans in 2007, up from 47% in 1992. Could this need for personal financial management prove to be a viable niche for community financial institutions?

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

The CFPB has announced the appointment of new members to its Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, Credit Union Advisory Council, and Academic Research Council. Retail Bank, Citibank, New York, NY. Chi Chi Wu, Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, MA. Jacksonville, FL.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. So where do ballyhooed mobile banking and payments developments among the biggest players leave community banks?

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Deposits Surge at Black-Owned Banks After Celeb Appeals

American Banker

Executives at several minority-owned community banks nationwide, including OneUnited Bank in Boston and Carver Federal Savings Bank in New York, say they have received a windfall of deposits in recent weeks, coinciding with the introduction of the Black Money Matters Project.

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