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For FinTech, The Age Of Big Bank Collaboration?

PYMNTS

digital operations head Edward Achtner said that the bank has been eyeing such efforts as partnerships. He noted that his own firm’s digital strategy has helped customers transfer $1 billion across mobile devices. In addition, the company has partnerships in place with several banks.

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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.” In a recent American Banker. While online lenders Kabbage and OnDeck lent $2 billion and $2.5

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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.