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Giving Community Banks The Contactless Card Boost

PYMNTS

However, there may be an opportunity to get more contactless cards into the hands of consumers — an opportunity that involves community banks and is backed by financial incentives. ICBA Bancard’s 1,600 community bank customers have issued more than 7.3 million payment cards, Giorgio said.

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Why Community Banks Can’t Afford To ‘Wait and See’ About Faster Payment Innovations

PYMNTS

Are community banks missing the chance to climb aboard the faster payments train? However, if recent developments in the financial services industry are any indication, innovation waits for no institution, company, agency or, for that matter, Fed report. faster payments system. faster payment system.

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Community Banks, Where Moving Beyond Interest Income Is In The (Credit) Cards

PYMNTS

Additional financial products and services must round out traditional banking activities. And yet, sometimes community banks, opt to stick to their lending knitting, forfeiting the potential to earn non-interest revenue and cementing their ties with both individual and corporate customers.

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

PYMNTS

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. Mortgages and Credit Cards and Student Debt…. A study from the Florida Atlantic University College of Business found that loans declined more at large banks than smaller ones.

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Digital Disruption

Independent Banker

Regardless of the name, nonbank technology firms are wedging themselves between community banks and their customers by offering a slew of traditional and nontraditional banking products. This is why ICBA and community banks must continue to push consistent regulation of bank and nonbank financial service providers.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

But how far are they willing to go to do their banking on small mobile devices? A consensus says that the future banking customer relationships—particularly for millennial consumers—will orbit to one degree or another around mobile technology. s entry into the payments business with Apple Pay. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant.

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Fintech And Financial Institutions – Bridging the Gap

NCR

The expansion of new fintech apps started a trend of eroding revenue and profits from banks and credit unions, generating a sense of competition with app developers. But technology innovators and financial institutions have worked together for generations. The average age of a credit union member in the US is 47. In Canada it is 53.

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