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The BaaS Gold Rush is On

Gonzobanker

Early adopters are earning prestige while investors and a hoard of community banks explore the opportunity to tap into this new source of revenue. Bank execs looking to champion a BaaS initiative must find the balance between the traditional business case model and an innovative investment strategy to drive future growth.

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Innovation on Display: The 2017 Ford GT and FIS Connect 2017

Celent Banking

As sharp-eyed Celent retail banking subscribers know, I'm an avid collector of good analogies. I like analogies because they can inject simplicity into the most complex discussions of financial technology, and make abstract concepts become more concrete and accessible to the casual fan of technology.

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The 2017 Ford GT and FIS Connect 2017: Innovation on Display

Celent Banking

As sharp-eyed Celent retail banking subscribers know, I'm an avid collector of good analogies. I like analogies because they can inject simplicity into the most complex discussions of financial technology, and make abstract concepts become more concrete and accessible to the casual fan of technology.

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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. While everyone knows Adobe, I suspect they are bigger in the financial industry than most people realize.

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Top 13 Bank, Fintech & Financial Services Marketing Conferences

Fintech Labs Insights

For financial marketers, especially those in credit unions and community banks, the biggest event of the year, The Financial Brand Forum , is just two months away. For the most part, early-bird (or very-early-bird) prices are still in effect, so you can easily save $1,000 or more on a pair of tickets.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

The latest twists came in September, when one of the biggest technology and payments events of the year featured the announcement of Apple Inc.’s Tying community bank relationships with mobile banking is like peanut butter and jelly—it adds lots of stickiness and feeds the relationship.”. Is Mobile Fully Catching On?

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Provident Financial Services, Inc. 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.”.

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