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For FinTech, The Age Of Big Bank Collaboration?

PYMNTS

Once less than friends with FinTechs, it looks like big banks are warming to the concept of collaboration with the relatively nimbler tech upstarts. digital operations head Edward Achtner said that the bank has been eyeing such efforts as partnerships. That latter firm is a digital lender and credit solutions provider.

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Is Small Business Lending Facing a ‘Moment of Reckoning?’

Gonzobanker

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.” Ready to compete against big banks, fintechs and non-bank lenders? Source: DeBanked ).

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Innovation All the Time

Independent Banker

Even with technology’s increasing influence on retail banking, it’s not typical for a community bank to have one of its most senior and trusted executives concentrate primarily on leading consumer product and payments innovation. billion-asset, 85-branch community bank based in Rockland, Mass., is not typical.