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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. What is your bank’s research and development budget for new products?

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Market your community bank with first-party data

Independent Banker

Illustration by The Laundry Room/Stocksy Customer data fuels efficient and effective marketing these days. Community banks own an enviable amount of data, but not all are leveraging it to its fullest extent. By Mindy Charski People share important data about themselves with their community bank in myriad ways.

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Ondot’s New Cloud Service Taps Digital Innovation For Banks

PYMNTS

Banks and credit unions looking for safer and more efficient digital and mobile services for debit and credit cards can now turn to the cloud. Ondot said its 4,000 banks and credit unions will see faster and easier upgrades while also gaining access to the latest innovations and functionality.

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Bank IT Spending – Use These Metrics to Improve Performance

South State Correspondent

The good news is that for many other areas, budgets are lower at banks compared to last year, and the fact that IT is still positive underscores the strategic imperative that banks face to digitize traditional operations, reduce costs, gain scale, and improve the customer experience. and 11.1%, with a median of 8.1%

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The Bank Legacy Is Dead: Long Live the Fintech Collision

Gonzobanker

While AOBA 2022 had its share of execs wanting to “fake it until they make it” with future innovation, credit is due to the bankers who are pouring real financial investment into new fintech experiments. and a trailblazer in the world of banking as a service (BaaS). An arms race in marketing and digital cannot be ignored.

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Using digital lending helps to reach small businesses

Independent Banker

We spoke with industry specialists about the priorities for community banks as they build a digital loan process for small businesses. It’s critical for community banks to have online loan applications, process automation staff skilled in digitization and more. Doing so can help community banks: Optimize the loan cycle.

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Open Banking and Ecosystems

Cisco

Venmo solved a problem of an individual wanting to pay another individual (or even small business) without having to use cash, check or even debit/credit card. Open banking made this possible. It is about opening up information to spur innovation of third-party providers to build new, added-value offerings. In the U.S.