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Why community banks are partnering with fintech startups

Bank Innovation

As big banks try to win over customers with digital upgrades that resemble slick user interfaces from fintech startups, community banks are looking at new ways to keep pace with customer expectations. Radius Bank, a one-branch Boston-based community bank with $1.2 Many are seeing partnerships as the path to growth.

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How Spend Tools Feed Food Banks’ Need For Accountability

PYMNTS

Recent data indicated that 82 percent of SMBs shutter in their first year because of poor cash management operations. As SMBs seek opportunities to expand their operations, and reach new customers and markets, they will need the right spend and workforce tools to ensure funds are spent appropriately.

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Top News In Payments: Bank Closings Hit Rural Areas; Kaspersky Highlights Rise Of Fake Notifications

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Bank Branch Closings Take Toll On Rural Communities. Rural communities with lower incomes or a higher percentage of minorities experienced the most closings, losing 1,553 bank branches in 794 counties, a decline of 14 percent. Urban areas, however, lost only 9 percent of offices in 802 communities. for $4 billion.

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

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communities. That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities. Expensive Cities.

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Data Dive, Go Big Edition: Apple, Amazon And CloudKitchens

PYMNTS

From an operational and risk perspective, we’ve handled the inflows smoothly, and without comprising our credit underwriting standards.”. According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub. Amazon’s Big Robotics Investment . India, the U.K.

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‘Google Checking,’ T-Mobile Data Breach Top This Week’s News

PYMNTS

The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) is among the nonprofits working to feed local communities this holiday season is the which provides food services to 190 towns as well as cities in the eastern Massachusetts region. 25) that it will sell its StubHub ticketing operations to online ticket reseller Viagogo Entertainment Inc.

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Tech Center: Charlotte On The Edge of Tech Greatness

PYMNTS

Here is an except of the conversation: PYMNTS: Can you describe your personal and/or professional experience with the tech community in Charlotte? The first reason is that the tech community here has just really started to establish itself over the past few years, and we’ve become a name that has become associated with the growth.

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