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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. Goes to Frank Sorrentino of Connect One Bank , who humorously and insightfully defined his bank’s move into Florida as the “6th Borough of New York.”. merges with Lakeland Bancorp.

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10 Big and Small Ideas From Gartner and Money 20/20 – Recap

South State Correspondent

Almost every bank and brand we spoke with will increase their investment in these two areas for 2023. This was followed by a focus on banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, open banking, Web 3.0, JP Morgan demoed their auto ecosystem that is embedded with payments at every turn. Big Idea – Trends.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

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. This is a team that we don’t believe sleeps.

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Thoughts from American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015

Celent Banking

It´s not about doing everything from every channel—it´s about optimizing the customer experience across the variety of methods used to interact with the retailer (or bank). Community banks differentiating from large institutions : This was a common thread running throughout the presentations. Presenters proposed some solutions.

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FinovateFall 2017 Live Blog – Day 1

William Mills

Using Adobe to show how a community bank might find/organize their existing “assets” (photos/video?/etc.) I know of several FinTech companies that started as Adobe Web Site Developers for community banks. This is the 21st Finovate for me (1,400 demos?) based on data. over 10 years. It’s SHOWTIME!

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Malauzai’s Vantiv Partnership to Leverage OnDot’s CardControl Tool

Fintech Labs Insights

Community banking app company Malauzai has teamed up with payment processing giant Vantiv to launch a youth spending tool called Family Manager: SmartKid Control. OnDot most recently demoed Mobile Card Services at FinovateAsia 2016. Earlier this week, Vantiv agreed to acquire B2B payments company Paymetric.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

. ————————————————————————— The ‘En Vogue’ Trend of the Year – Credit unions buying community banks. The Branding Name-Thud Award – Goes to BB&T + Suntrust becoming Truist.

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