Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

A secure, open-loop, cost-saving, customer-accessible, multiplatform P2P payments network might sound too good to be true, but community bank consortium Alloy Labs Alliance hopes to achieve just that with the CHUCK payment rail. Julieann Thurlow, CEO of $730 million-asset Reading Cooperative Bank in Reading, Mass.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Among Visa's partners are Alipay, mPesa, Tencent, Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies). It is also announcing a new partner in Daylight, a digital bank working with Visa and Fast Track to recreate a community bank concept digitally. These firms need to find a bank sponsor. Creating The Digital Community Bank.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

With recent advances in blockchain, cryptocurrency, contactless payments, and more, finance is primed for disruption. One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong. Get the entire 43-page PDF.

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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. Let’s see how this new scale allows for big investments in future innovation. She was a trailblazer and an early innovator in analytics. The Smarter Bank Technology Award.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. The “What the Hell Are Bankers Doing?”

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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. As Ingo Money’s Edwards said, there’s been very little innovation for decades on the disbursement side of payments. That landscape had been scaling since before the pandemic occurred, he said.

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The Financial Brand

JANUARY 24, 2022

The post New Competition Forcing Smaller Banks to Try (Almost) Anything appeared first on The Financial Brand - Banking Trends, Analysis & Insights. But the unwillingness to reconsider branch dependency could be a millstone.

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