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Addressing The Symptoms Of Pharmacies’ Cash Flow Ailments

PYMNTS

This kind of small business is a dying breed: recent stats from the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis at the University of Iowa found more than 16 percent of independent pharmacies shuttered their doors between March 2003 and March 2018, according to Washington Post reports. But these business owners need capital to expand.

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Community Banks Debut FinTech Alliance

PYMNTS

The group, to be known as Alloy Labs Alliance, according to a press release , is being managed by FinTech Forge. Among the names joining up are Citizens & Northern Bank (based in Pennsylvania), Inland Bank (Illinois) and Lincoln Savings Bank (Iowa). Guidelines From The UK.

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Market your community bank with first-party data

Independent Banker

They may not have customer relationship management (CRM) software, which can store customer data and handle tasks like segmenting customers and tracking leads. Or, they may lack a marketing automation system, which can help banks manage their emails and send automated messages based on how recipients engage with content.

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How to keep good employees

Independent Banker

of adults have left a job to get away from a manager as a way to improve their overall life. Source: Gallup, “State of the American Manager” report. One community bank that has found success in retaining its best employees is $180 million-asset Malvern Bank in Malvern, Iowa. The reasons for the inadequacies of some managers?

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Dwolla Raises Capital, Relaunches Access API

Fintech Labs Insights

Milne wrote that the investment will be used to expand Dwolla’s sales and account management operations in Des Moines, Iowa. The round featured participation from Detroit Venture Partners, Firebrand Ventures, High Alpha, Ludlow Ventures, and Next Level Ventures, and brings Dwolla’s total capital to just over $39 million.

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A community bank-fueled payments rail

Independent Banker

For a community bank to be innovative means you need to make big bets with your depositors’ capital—and that’s something we take very seriously,” Thurlow says. “By American State Bank in Sioux Center, Iowa, is another CHUCK network participant. “As Julieann Thurlow, CEO of $730 million-asset Reading Cooperative Bank in Reading, Mass.,

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

Lynn Drysdale, Managing Attorney, Consumer Law Unit, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc., Arjan Schutte, Founder and Managing Partner, Core Innovation Capital, Los Angeles, CA. Ballard, Vice President and Director, First Iowa State Bank, Albia, IA. The new members are as follows: Consumer Advisory Board Members.