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Community Banks Accelerate FinTech Integrations

PYMNTS

For more community banks, the latter strategy can fast-track digitization initiatives. This week’s look at the latest bank-FinTech tie-ups shows Banking-as-a-Service and other FinTech players embracing smaller regional and community banks to elevate small- to medium-sized business (SMBs) and corporate banking offerings.

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Scottsdale Community Bank: Making microloans

Independent Banker

Inspired by the entrepreneurship of lemonade stands, Scottsdale Community Bank created a microloan program. Photo by Brandon Sullivan De novo Scottsdale Community Bank set out to provide microloans to small and mid-size businesses, family organizations and nonprofits—a project that was inspired by the humble lemonade stand.

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Crossing the Mobile Divide

Independent Banker

You recognize one of today’s most prominent technology dilemmas for community banks: It’s the great mobile divide. It’s where older, profitable customers have been slower to adopt new banking technologies that not-yet-profitable millennials pick up quickly and easily. By Paul Schaus. Millennials, who will make up half the U.S.

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Major Core Vendors Are Failing Regional Banks

Gonzobanker

Now, a major portion of the regional and community bank industry must handicap whether FIS can execute on an ambitious strategy with a rapid-fire development road map after believing in a completely different channels story from the company for the past several years.

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Finastra Acquires Mobile Banking Provider Malauzai

PYMNTS

Finastra , the FinTech company, announced Monday (June 18) that it has acquired Malauzai , a provider of mobile and internet banking solutions for community financial institutions (FIs). retail and business banking sectors by further enabling digital transformation for community banks and credit unions around the U.S.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

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. Consumers was the first big credit union to deploy the Phoenix core system and this year was the first big go-live of the Lumin digital banking system. Well done, sir!

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

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. Acquisition of the Year: Bank Acquiring a Fintech. Acquisition of the Year: Fintech Acquiring a Bank. talent market.

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