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Beneficial State Bank’s financial activism

Independent Banker

Under the leadership of CEO Randell Leach, Beneficial State Bank is pursuing an ambitious mission of financial activism and strong corporate values. The idea that community banking can be a force for positive change is at the heart of Beneficial State Bank, which engages its customers through financial activism. Photo: Ashley Courter.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company. THE BANKING AWARDS. GonzoBanker of the Year – Large Banks.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. Leadership and board members.

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. In 2021, there were more than 120 fintech IPOs in the U.S.,

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The Mother List of All Banking Books

Jeff For Banks

Oil Capital: The History of American Oil, Wildcatters, Independents and Their Bankers 2016 Dwight L. A Term at the Fed: An Insider's View 2004 John Moody Moody, John The Masters of Capital: A Chronicle of Wall Street 2012 George S. Clark Clark, Bernard F. Clarke Clarke, Dwight L. Meyer Meyer, Laurence H. Moore Moore, George S.

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