PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Synctera Brings 'FinTech As A Service' To Community Banks. FinTechs want to offer compliant banking services, while community banks want new ways to grow deposits. The FinTech as a Service launched Tuesday (Dec. PayPal has introduced QR code payments in iZettle’s point-of-sale app in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2020

As the nation’s traditional financial institutions struggle to cope, alternative lending platforms and other B2B FinTechs are exploring how to put their own technologies to good use. Computer Services, Inc. Computer Services, Inc.,

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Here’s how community banks can enhance their payments offerings. of banks’ revenues come from payments. Payments account for up to 30% of bank revenue, and that income stream is under attack. billion-asset Bank of Tampa in Tampa, Fla. Chris Doyle, Texas First Bank. Photo by Juan Moyano/Stocksy. Quick Stat.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As can be seen, the conference largely revolved around payments, artificial intelligence, fintech partnerships/management, regulation, and fraud/identity in its various forms. The discussions were healthier, more compliance-focused, and with little expectations that banks were going to offer crypto to their customers any time soon.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 4, 2020

All the capital flowing into the digital fintech space is helping to solve banking industry challenges. As the industry’s appetite for digital technology grows, the capital that’s been flowing into mostly digital-focused fintech is solving real industry challenges right now. SoFi/Galileo: This $1.2 customer impact.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

ICBA’s Bank Security Institute offers critical incident response strategies to keep your physical branch location safe. The pandemic forced industries to accelerate their adoption of digital applications, and community banking was no exception. Held in Bloomington, Minn., Learn more ».

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

“Through this collaboration, ICBA Bancard continues to push the innovation envelope with solutions that are focused on delivering the very best products to community banks and their customers.”. Our mission — to stimulate local borrowing and local lending — is well aligned with ICBA Bancard and its community bank clients.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Community banks and credit unions are feeling the pressure to boost their digital card services or risk losing customers to megabanks and digital challengers, Ondot Systems ’ Chief Strategy Officer Todd Lesher told PYMNTS in a recent discussion. FinTech players are also grabbing deposits. Square announced $1.3

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

The FedNow Service is launching in early 2023, giving community banks about a year to plan. Here’s how community bankers, payments experts and fintech vendors suggest using the time to prepare. In some cases, FedNow specifications may require upgrades to ensure community bank systems can integrate appropriately. “We

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Most banks have still not committed to RTP® or FedNow SM for their commercial customers – a bank’s most significant single profit driver. Most banks ignore instant payments or are still worried about fraud and research. 33% are still made via check that contains more than $8B of fraud per year.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 12, 2023

Some 57 financial institutions will start with FedNow, including about 42 banks (plus a handful of core systems providers and fintechs). Banks are about to win back payment flow from non-banks, and in this article, we break down how this will happen and what it means for your bank.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

The global financial space has been severely impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with social distancing and stay-at-home guidelines preventing customers from visiting bank branches to access the services they need. Developments From Around The World Of Digital-First Banking.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

banks and credit unions (CUs) have signed on to offer checking and savings accounts through Google Pay. BankMobile, BBVA USA, BMO Harris, The Coastal Community Bank, First Independence Bank (a federally designated minority depository institution) and SEFCU will join Citi and Stanford Federal Credit Union in the offering beginning next year.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 21, 2023

The need for a known, reliable brand creates an excellent opportunity for community banks to help small business customers while building deposit balances. As such, like PPP, this would be a limited product for any bank. This improves the credit position of the small business customer, thereby reducing risk for the bank.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. What’s on the horizon for retail banking? We spoke with two community banks that have ramped up their services to meet—and exceed—the changing expectations of customers. So how are retail banks meeting this challenge?

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Gartner focused on technology infrastructure, while Money 20/20 was around fintech and payments. While last year was dominated by crypto, this year, the themes were mainly around fraud and identity (both conferences). Almost every bank and brand we spoke with will increase their investment in these two areas for 2023.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

But this has been the domain of larger financial institutions, especially when community banks and credit unions are included. Last month, payment company PayFi and The Clearing House (TCH) partnered to bring real-time payment technologies to community banks. This is shifting, though. Interestingly, 63.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

According to a report in Fintech Futures , the idea behind the project is to use permission-based blockchain technology so credit unions can reach more members that don’t have access to financial services. CULedger , a credit union, has inked a partnership with IBM to create blockchain services geared toward credit unions.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

Explore how B2B FinTech is on the cusp of change as we break down all of the statistics and surveys below. 200 community banks have cut ties with Lending Club following the sudden departure of the alternative lender’s CEO and the subsequent hit to share prices, which reverberated across other alt-finance players. 65% of U.K.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Fallout from recent global events presents an obstacle to generating revenue for community banks. It’s certainly an interesting time to be a community bank, but there are still plenty of ways to make efficiencies with an eye on profitability. ? But one of the biggest problems in community banking today is a fear of risk.

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Jack Henry

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Fintech providers play an important role in the financial services industry. Banks and credit unions rely heavily on fintechs to sustain compliant efficient operations, process payments and other data, protect information and deliver service to customers in a variety of ways.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It’s sort of like asking Taylor Swift to give up singing to take a job handling financial fraud instead. Just this week, Finovate host Greg Palmer surveyed the event’s audience on what the biggest challenges of digital transformation projects were for incumbents, according to Fintech Futures. bank’s fintech partners.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

Credit union customers, Lynch said, are regular consumers in their day-to-day lives, which means they’ve got plenty of firsthand experience with the upgrades and improvements to financial services that various FinTech players have injected into the market. That is, if they choose the right FinTech. For example, 49.1

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William Mills

AUGUST 9, 2016

The company provides electronic payment fraud prevention technology to all sizes of financial institutions including community banks, credit unions and larger institutions. “We ACH Alert’s award winning technologies reduce the financial loss and reputational damage that are associated with ACH and wire fraud.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Ahead of the Curve: A Banker’s Podcast Ahead of the Curve: A Banker’s Podcast has insights from banking leaders and advisors across the banking industry. Breaking Banks Breaking Banks , billed as the #1 global fintech podcast and radio show, began in 2013 and is hosted by media firm Provoke.fm. Fraud Prevention.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking.

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Abrigo

APRIL 7, 2022

Today’s financial marketplace is challenged by increasing regulation, high expectations for fast and mobile financial services, and new fintech companies joining the already competitive arena. When two financial institutions come together, the AML and fraud compliance functions will need to be consolidated.

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ABA Community Banking

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

An increase in the likelihood that businesses may use crypto currencies for transactions Feature Technology Branch Technology/ATMs Feature3 Fintech Bank Performance The Economy Financial Research Management Financial Trends AML & Fraud Cyberfraud/ID Theft Community Banking Commercial.

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American Banker

MAY 13, 2022

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In December, the founder and CEO of Crypto Exchange company FTX was arrested in the Bahamas (yah, don’t ask) and charged with fraud and conspiracy. In 2021, there were more than 120 fintech IPOs in the U.S., 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 10, 2023

Fraud detection, for example, must either be run in a separate application and then brought back into the core, or all core processes must stop to run a fraud sequence. While 57 banks, core systems, and fintechs will go live shortly, soon, the platform will see 3,000 financial institutions at least receiving money in real time.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

In a roundtable discussion, the last in the “Powering the Digital Shift” series with Karen Webster, six experts in money movement, fraud prevention, banking and financial technology discussed one sure bet: “Digital optional” is no option as we move toward contactless commerce. So, there is a balance that needs to be struck.”.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

A mix of players, FinTech firms pose threats and opportunities. Call them disruptors, upstarts or the voguish FinTech companies. 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.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

For several years, while state-level legalization has expanded, access to traditional banks remains an issue thanks to their status as federally regulated entities. Today, however, the banking challenge has largely been solved. “It’s a bit of an inverted model,” he said.

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American Banker

APRIL 20, 2020

MVB Financial plans to use Paladin Group to advise its bank and a number of its fintech clients.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The good news is that financial institutions can take several steps to ensure they avoid troublesome software integrations, says Steven Martin of Marcato Advisors, a bank consulting firm focused on achieving success with fintech. Community banks are often resource-starved,” he said. “In Fraud Prevention.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

But many community banks and credit unions have done very well targeting market segments that respond to cash-back programs, or no rewards program at all. 3 – Fraud: A welcome reduction in losses, but nobody is resting. The good news is that EMV did what we thought it would do: it reduced card-present fraud.

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