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Core Unicorn Deals Rattling the Future of Financial Technology

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The unicorns of core banking systems have been running wild the past few weeks, and these frothy deals signal a future shift in how executives should view the world of financial technology. Let’s be clear Gonzobankers, these deals are NOT about massive numbers of bank core replacements.

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Charles Potts: Opportunities in the fintech landscape

Independent Banker

A convergence of economic and marketplace factors presents community banks with new opportunities for innovation and growth as they look to the new year. For community banks that have yet to start evaluating digital solutions and providers, now is the time to act. Seize the moment to explore innovation.

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The BaaS Gold Rush is On

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Early adopters are earning prestige while investors and a hoard of community banks explore the opportunity to tap into this new source of revenue. As the gold rush period shakes out, Cornerstone predicts only one in five banks will have a strong enough I.T. Pursuing BaaS doesn’t have to take focus away from primary customers.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. So where do ballyhooed mobile banking and payments developments among the biggest players leave community banks?

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FIS/Worldpay Agree to Combine: So What?

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Yet, while mega-payments players could potentially improve their future service offerings, the reality is it leaves bank and credit union executives with fewer vendor choices. Future Innovation? How will processor consolidation affect the pace and sources of innovation? Payments in the Middle of Shareholder Value.

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

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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. Let’s see how this new scale allows for big investments in future innovation. She was a trailblazer and an early innovator in analytics.

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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. A lover of picking bank stocks and playing piano who served our country in the U.S. Paul wrote the “ Online Banking for Dummies ” book in the late ’80s.

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