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Growing a new branch

Independent Banker

When COVID-19 rocked the world in March 2020, Ted Whitehurst was reviewing a lease for a new branch of Providence Bank in Raleigh, N.C. Of course, he immediately hit the brakes on that plan—although nobody could have predicted the severity or length of what would become a pandemic. “We Back to branch strategy.

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Taking A Pass On Passwords

PYMNTS

Repetition makes passwords less secure — a cybercriminal who cracked one is maybe one to two digits away from having all of them. But, it remains to be seen exactly when security will be entirely replaced by something a consumer is — a biometric scan of some kind — as opposed to something a consumer knows, like a password.

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