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ICBA: Building Bridges For The Next Generation Of Community Banks

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Community banking can be one of the most rewarding and most challenging areas of financial services in which to work — that’s the view, anyway, of Rebeca Romero Rainey, president and CEO of Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) , who recently joined the nation’s leading advocacy organization that exclusively represents community banks.

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Fintech Deals to Watch: Fall Festivities

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Treasury management provider Dragonfly Financial Technologies launched independently from an ACI Worldwide sale. Core: Core-n Mazes and Hayrides FIS acquired embedded finance provider Bond Financial Technologies and announced plans to spin off merchant solutions (to be named Worldpay ).

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Fighting Digital with Digital

Independent Banker

Community banks cannot afford to ignore the staggering pace of lending adoption by both individuals and businesses using digital-only platforms from various nonbank technology-based specialty lending firms. But community banks should not be without hope, nor should they underestimate the significance of customer relationships.

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10 Top Banking Podcasts You Should be Listening to

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Banking Transformed Banking Transformed by the Financial Brand’s Jim Marous has new episodes several times a month and features executives from financial institutions, financial technology firms, authors, consultants, and other experts in the banking industry. keep me informed. Whitepaper.

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

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2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. 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 CSI.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

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The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet. GonzoBanker of the Year (Mid-Size Bank) – goes to David Findlay, CEO of Lakeland Financial. The Monty Python “Biggus Dickus” Award – goes to Sen.

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AI, Security And Loosened Rules: How The US Wants To Boost FinTech

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financial technology efforts. In addition, there is increased lawmaker attention to promote innovation among non-bank providers of new payments and payment-related technology, and more consumer concern about online and data security. financial system around a set of core principles. AI And Data Security.

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