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Fighting Digital with Digital

Independent Banker

Community banks cannot afford to ignore the staggering pace of lending adoption by both individuals and businesses using digital-only platforms from various nonbank technology-based specialty lending firms. But community banks should not be without hope, nor should they underestimate the significance of customer relationships.

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10 Top Banking Podcasts You Should be Listening to

Abrigo

Topics range from here-and-now issues, such as the latest mergers and acquisitions environment or competitive pressure from the Buy Now Pay Later industry to strategic topics related to handling member or customer data, recruiting, and banking cannabis.

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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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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? Six years ago I asked in a blog post Will Plain Vanilla Kill Community Banking ? Maybe those millennial futurists don't remember this.

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Acquire or Be Acquired 2018: Breaks, Bulls and Business Models

Gonzobanker

Jim McAlpin from Bryan Cave LLP noted that the bulk of regulatory relief would come through a more rational examination process from the Fed, OCC and FDIC – clearly welcome news for those who fell victim to armies of examiners in conference rooms over the past decade. #2: 2: The Bulls. 3: Business Model.

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