Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This fast pace has banks and credit unions contemplating how they can compete in this mobile “arms race” and what unique value smaller institutions can bring to the table. . With megabanks spending billions on digital investments each year, regional and community bank executives understand they cannot compete on resources.

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ABA Community Banking

JULY 15, 2020

When COVID-19 accelerated customer movement into mobile and online banking solutions, and triggered consumers to push their funds into bank accounts, banks that had made investments in the digital customer experience were positioned to capitalize.

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BankInovation

AUGUST 4, 2020

Customer satisfaction with online-only banks seems to have dwindled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent survey conducted by the Harris Poll. Community banks, credit unions and big banks, meanwhile, seem better poised to retain customers compared to their digitally native counterparts.

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American Banker

AUGUST 10, 2023

Citizens Bank of Edmond in Oklahoma, in conjunction with the digital-banking platform Narmi, recently launched an account-opening process that occurs completely online. The project, completed in less than three months, could be a model for community banks that want to innovate but fear being a low priority for vendors.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

In the May Digital-First Banking Tracker® , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of digital-first banking, including the challenges facing deployment of APIs amid the COVID-19 pandemic, new online initiatives from nationwide FI chains and community banks and the security challenges that are plaguing digital banking programs.

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ABA Community Banking

OCTOBER 21, 2019

From simplified 10-step online account openings, to value-added robo-advising, to “certified digital bankers,” OceanFirst Bank delivers a new community banking experience. The post How One Community Bank Is Reinventing CX for the Digital Age appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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American Banker

JUNE 23, 2023

The online game, CoastalWorld, introduces players to the bank's fintech and neobank partners.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

How Americans bank has been changing for years, including how they start their banking relationships. Offering the ability to open an account online can be one way to reach customers who are unable to join your community bank in person. A ‘big bang’ for digital account opening.

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American Banker

AUGUST 18, 2023

Cambridge Savings Bank's Ivy Bank online-only unit has spent two years offering CDs and savings accounts. Meanwhile, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's new digital bank, Jenius, launched with personal loans. Both want to widen their product sets to benefit both sides of the balance sheet.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

The trend toward digitization in consumers’ lives isn’t new, but COVID-19 has accelerated it dramatically over the past several months. Deposits had already been trending away from community banks and credit unions anyway, but COVID-19 has accelerated that shift. FinTech players are also grabbing deposits. Square announced $1.3

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ZootBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

How long should it take to add your spouse to your bank account? However, it took one full hour to accomplish this simple task at my local community bank where I have been a customer for more than a decade. In fact, nearly 15 years ago I opened an ING account entirely online. A few minutes seems reasonable to me.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Cambr, a cloud-based platform powered by investment firm StoneCastle and digital banking software provider Q2 Holdings, is helping neo-banks and fintechs launch and scale up through a network of 850 community banks.

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American Banker

MARCH 19, 2020

The surge in online and mobile use is a high-profile test for the industry — and could foreshadow a permanent consumer shift.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

While much has been written about India’s vast unbanked population — roughly one-eighth by the World Bank’s estimates — the more important issue to really look at is how much of India ’s population is under banked , Mandar Agashe , founder, managing director and vice chairman of Sarvatra Technologies told Karen Webster.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

“I’m not sure how we would have processed all of the PPP loans and everything else in the last 18 months without some of the technology that we have implemented,” says Chris Jundt, senior vice president and chief lending officer at First State Bank & Trust. Chris Jundt, First State Bank & Trust. Cashing in on efficiencies.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

It is also announcing a new partner in Daylight, a digital bank working with Visa and Fast Track to recreate a community bank concept digitally. An example of one such Fast Track FinTech is Daylight — a neo-bank designed to redefine the concept of community banking in the digital age.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Wintrust Financial Corporation has selected global enterprise technology provider NCR Corporation to provide its new digital-first banking platform, according to a press release. Wintrust’s investment in digital-first banking positions them for success in the increasingly challenging financial services landscape.”.

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Banking 2020

JULY 24, 2015

Reality checks for community banks switching to a digital model: There is a lot of talk about digital banking however, not all digital banking falls under the same umbrella. Articles via The Financial Brand, Business Insider, Mobile Payments Today. Will consumers adopt Facebook’s ‘Buy’ button?:

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

Consumers Think About the Key Issues Driving the Connected Economy explored a census-balanced sample of consumers who bank with legacy financial institutions (FIs) as well as credit unions (CUs), digital banks and even PayPal. We asked consumers to define banks, and they did so in much the same way, with 98.8

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The Paypers

APRIL 21, 2022

Digital banking solutions provider Apiture has announced that US-based community bank Ephrata National Bank (ENB) , has selected its platform to power its online and mobile banking solutions, according to IBS Intelligence.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 26, 2019

The community bank model is built around customer service, but for many bank and credit union customers, the definition of “good service” has been changing over the last couple of decades. customers than traditional retail banks earned in the firm’s study of retail banking satisfaction.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

However, in the 2019 Retail Banking Report, a study by Reputation.com that analyzed online data relating to retail banking locations for 23 major U.S. banks, the banking industry was found to be lacking. The low score for retail banks is due to factors like star ratings, which equaled 2.8

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2017

Starling Bank, the digital-only U.K. bank, has now added Apple Pay support as an online payment method, which means customers can add their Starling debit card to Apple Wallet. According to a news report , with the mobile pay support, customers can make online payments via their Apple devices.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest solutions that FinTechs and lenders are developing to ease the PPP lending process for SMBs and FIs alike, with many initiatives focused on enabling regional and community banks to maintain a competitive edge against the biggest banks. Citizens Bank Of Edmond. Fresno First Bank.

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American Banker

JULY 31, 2020

Heritage Bank and Dime Community Bank are among those financial services firms taking online and app-store reviews seriously. Here’s why all banks should pay attention.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 31, 2019

article , former Small Business Administration administrator Karen Mills said community banks with strong small business customer bases that don’t find new ways to serve them digitally are going to face a “reckoning.” While online lenders Kabbage and OnDeck lent $2 billion and $2.5 In a recent American Banker.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 25, 2019

Whether you are a community bank or a fintech provider, that makes sense. So many of Fiserv’s core clients are commercial community banks, and those banks (as well as credit unions getting into business services) need increasingly more help with business payments. Diversification versus Concentration.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

back to some semblance of “normal” has challenges — and opportunities for banks, especially community banks and credit unions. The challenge lies with serving the needs of the individual who may be hesitant to go back to the old ways of banking — of walking up to teller windows, of handling cash in envelopes.

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Abrigo

MAY 11, 2020

While the pandemic, as well as the rapid response, were not scenarios many were prepared for, it has provided a glimpse into what we can expect from our banking relationships moving forward. COVID-19: A springboard to digital banking. The PPP has exposed many areas where technology excelled over traditional processes.

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Independent Banker

MAY 26, 2016

Examples of financial institution payment innovations include the development and introduction of Electronic Funds Transfer systems, such as ACH and wire transfers, credit and debit cards, ATMs, online access to services beyond the branch and online bill payment services.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 4, 2020

And businesses that deferred moving online or had no reason to operate online have made the leap practically overnight.”. million fundraise including community bank participants Bank of St. Elizabeth, Coastal Community Bank, First Financial Bank, Kearny Bank, Provident Bancorp and Sunwest Bank.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 19, 2017

Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group is making a significant digital push this quarter, and highlighted a number of areas this is benefiting the bank’s consumer business. But the most significant revelation from the company’s earnings call yesterday may be that digital banking allows any bank to become national.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Banking technology company Agora Services recently announced its plans to white-label its offerings for smaller financial institutions (FIs) with a focus on small business and teen banking solutions. corporates, making it easier for businesses to accept online payments. ’s Faster Payments scheme.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2016

The edge mid-sized and community banks have historically had on the big guys is that they put a face to banking. Today, though, FinTech has changed the game, and new customer demands could be taking away community banks’ leg-up on their largest peers. Power report on retail banking in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

For banks, the opportunity is there to cement the trust of their customers during uncertain times that have made individuals increasingly uncertain about personal health, job security, paychecks and even whether the money they have in the accounts is safe and sound.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

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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American Banker

MAY 19, 2020

The Texas bank is leaning on solutions from Lightico and MANTL to quickly set up accounts and handle loans when customers can’t sign documents in person because of the coronavirus emergency.

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