Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Independent Banker ’s annual Community Bank CEO Outlook survey reveals how community bank leaders plan to leverage today’s deposit-laden banking environment to grow this year. Janet Silveria, Community Bank of Santa Maria. So, what’s at the top of community bank leaders’ to-do lists?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Cross-border FinTech efforts have seen increasing participation from central banks and monetary authorities. The MOU dictates that the banks will train FinTech startups with an eye on cross-border transactions. The Fed And FinTech Firms. The money will be used to build engineering staff.

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ABA Community Banking

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Insights from the 2022 Federal Reserve/CSBS survey of community banks. The post One in 10 community banks planning to launch crypto services appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Digital: Pigskin Pick-Ups Bankjoy , a digital banking provider, had a funding round led by the Curql Collective Credit Union Service Organization. Treasury management provider Dragonfly Financial Technologies launched independently from an ACI Worldwide sale. Alogent acquired document imaging and tracking solution provider AccuSystems.

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Abrigo

APRIL 19, 2016

In the paper, the OCC defined responsible innovation as: The use of new or improved financial products, services, and processes to meet the evolving needs of consumers, businesses, and communities in a manner that is consistent with sound risk management and is aligned with the bank’s overall business strategy.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 28, 2023

The announcement is a #GonzoBanker #Fintech Deal to Watch for a few reasons: Money is still flowing in this fintech market, but it’s increasingly focused where there is real use case value for financial institutions that pay real money for real solutions to help real clients that generate real earnings. Follow Sam on LinkedIn.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Early adopters are earning prestige while investors and a hoard of community banks explore the opportunity to tap into this new source of revenue. As the gold rush period shakes out, Cornerstone predicts only one in five banks will have a strong enough I.T. Now is the time to create a BaaS strategy.

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ABA Community Banking

MARCH 30, 2018

Fed’s Quarles traces evolution of big bank and fintech competition Risk Management CSuite Credit Risk Community Banking.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

Open banking and bank-FinTech collaboration can be an effective way for financial institutions (FIs) to launch new digital products. Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest tie-ups and data sharing efforts as institutions explore how open banking models might accelerate their modernization efforts.

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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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ABA Community Banking

MARCH 6, 2024

financial sector's push to diversify loan portfolios—particularly highlighted by risks exposed by the bank failures of the past year. The post Fintech startup focused on asset risk builds bank advisory board, gets Citi Ventures funding appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

Accelerated data sharing has become a focal point for small business lenders and FinTechs looking to speed up the time it takes for SMBs to apply for and receive much-needed funding. This week’s look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaborations and open banking initiatives finds a focus on small business lending: In the U.K.,

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Every year, digitization further rattles the relevancy of the traditional hierarchical banking organization. To overcome the struggle, banks need to build leadership teams that align with how a future “Smarter Bank” will operate. That’s the new DNA we need to increase across the banking industry.

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Abrigo

MARCH 6, 2017

His Tweets mix news about middle market, small business and business internet banking with occasional pop culture references. 4) @KarenGMills – Former SBA administrator in the Obama administration, Mills is now a senior fellow at Harvard Business School, writing and Tweeting about small business, lending and fintech. Learn more here.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Thankfully for bank and credit union executives, lenders, risk managers, and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Officers, banking podcasts and podcasts for credit unions are plentiful, and options are growing. Weekly episodes highlight innovators and industry players driving innovation in the financial services industry.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In 2018, companies from 31 countries and 19 categories — spanning payments, digital banking, insurance, and more — made it onto the CB Insights 2018 Fintech 250 list. Below, we dive into where the Fintech 250 Class of 2018 startups are now. Our call for submissions is now open for the third annual CB Insights Fintech 250 list.

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American Banker

MARCH 4, 2020

Compliance, risk management and staffing will likely come under added scrutiny as regulators lay out a framework for future fintech-bank mergers.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

CRE loan growth at community banks has been outpacing noncommunity banks, both in the quarter and over the last year, according to the FDIC’s latest Quarterly Banking Profile. . Heading into 2020, banks seem to be continuing to respond to risk concerns. Lending & Credit Risk. Learn More.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Across the banking industry a current strategic focus is loan growth – increasing the portfolio by both acquiring new customers and expanding services offered to existing customers. Particularly for community banks and credit unions , many of which find themselves in a very competitive environment, growing a loan portfolio can be challenging.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

They are routinely experiencing processes that add costs, delay turnaround times, and can lead to inconsistency in pricing and risk management. Many community bankers expect a recession will start by at least mid-2021, according to the most recent Community Bank Sentiment Index. Lending & Credit Risk.

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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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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Competing and beating FinTech’s digital-platform lenders. 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. By Jonathan Rowe.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Banks and credit unions had to fundamentally change their delivery, support and relationship management models at scopes and speeds that were unheard of. And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Jill is continually demonstrating just how loud a $300 million community bank can roar!

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ABA Community Banking

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In a speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta today, Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman discussed how the Fed can help boost transparency and provide more clarity to community banks about relationships with vendors and third-party service providers.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A few years ago, very few people would have guessed that tens of billions of dollars would be invested in fintech vendors and solutions annually – except it happened. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Best Fintech Acquisition by a Bank. Fintech Acquiring Bank.

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ZootBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

So what does this have to do with banking? In today’s environment, as banks manage increased regulation and competition from industry outsiders, they must operate in the same fashion. Banks have to put themselves in competition-type scenarios so they can deliver a superior performance when it counts. Fintech Houses.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 1, 2016

Banks are critical financing partners for growing enterprises. Eight in 10 business owners report that a major, regional or community bank is their main financing partner for capital. After all, most of the nearly 29 million businesses in the U.S. are small businesses – a trend unlikely to shift much in the coming years.

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Abrigo

MAY 22, 2024

As a share of their total assets, community banks have more business loans below $1 million than larger banks, according to numbers from the St. Fed survey data show that lower percentages have said they applied at small banks in each of the last three years. Online fintech lenders had a market share of about $25 billion.

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Abrigo

APRIL 22, 2024

As a share of their total assets, community banks have more business loans below $1 million than larger banks, according to the St. Fed survey data show that lower percentages have said they applied at small banks in each of the last three years. Louis Fed : [S]mall-business loans—i.e., economic ecosystem.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

This week’s look at the latest open banking and bank-FinTech collaborative initiatives reveals financial services firms continue to focus on elevated functionality, with data security seemingly more of a background priority. Amex Joins Revolut’s Open Banking Platform. Arvest Bank Taps Finzly Platform.

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American Banker

AUGUST 27, 2021

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Around the web: Popular Community Bank and Oriental Bank to deploy Cardless Cash, mobile banking technology from FIS. Mitek to combine its Mobile Verify solution with fraud prevention and risk management technology from IdentityMind Global.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Takeaway 3 Community banks have seen less volatility in noninterest income, and many are still eyeing growth across the category. Community banks target growth. Community banks have seen less volatility in noninterest income over time. Drive growth with integrated risk management.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In July, Q2 Holdings acquired anti-fraud, risk management specialist, Centrix Solutions for $20 million. For its part, Social Money sees the acquisition as an opportunity to continue helping community banks and credit unions, in the words of Social Money CTO Adam Anderson, “establish direct-to-digital capabilities in the future.”

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Last year, community bank loan producers were faced with both record-low interest rates and a glut of deposits. But as they always do, they came through for individuals and businesses in their communities with a combination of personalized service and prudent risk management practices. First Southern Bank.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

There is an understanding that technology and fintech are going to cause radical change, but the how, how big and when are still very unclear. billion of assets under management. Bank Acquisition of the Year. And this year’s Smarter Bank is … drum roll … USAA. GonzoBankers, 2019 was a year of extremes.

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

A recent article in The Globe and Mail , The biggest threat to banks? Legacy systems, not fintech (November 2016), by Mike Gardner seemed to go viral on my Twitter stream. The attitude of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, might be leading banks to become their own worst enemy. Fintech experts weigh in.

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