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Helping Community Banks Turn On The Innovation Switch

PYMNTS

Innovation has always been important for community banks, but the driving force of digitization over the last decade has greatly sped up the pace, said Kevin Tweddle, chief innovation officer for the Independent Community Bankers of America ( ICBA ). Community banking is no exception.

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BBVA Teams With Google Pay To Offer Digital Bank Accounts

PYMNTS

BBVA USA is collaborating with Google to offer consumers a digital bank account through Google Pay. The Alabama-based bank holding company said the partnership is key to its strategy? of growing the bank throughout the U.S. insured digital account will be built on BBVA’s infrastructure and powered by Google Pay.

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Community Bank Builds Future on ‘Banking as a Service’ & Google Plex

The Financial Brand

21 deals with neobanks and fintechs like Aspiration, Ellevest and Greenwood sent a community bank down an unexpected (and profitable) path. The post Community Bank Builds Future on ‘Banking as a Service’ & Google Plex appeared first on The Financial Brand - Banking Trends, Analysis & Insights.

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StoneCastle’s Joshua Siegel Talks Cambr, Which Lets Non-Banks Play Bank

Bank Innovation

Cambr, a cloud-based platform powered by investment firm StoneCastle and digital banking software provider Q2 Holdings, is helping neo-banks and fintechs launch and scale up through a network of 850 community banks.

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Open Banking and Ecosystems

Cisco

Venmo, just like Google, has become a proper noun AND a verb. Open banking made this possible. Open banking allows third-party financial services companies to access consumer banking, transaction, and other financial data via the secure use of APIs. In the U.S.

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Why Openness Is Critical to the Future of Banking

Jack Henry

As we speak, tech behemoths like Google and Amazon continue to take an innovative approach to customer engagement and expansion. A Celent report even notes that Amazon has been recently negotiating with big banks to launch a checking account, and the company has also formed a mortgage lending unit. *.

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Leading Again

Independent Banker

Rebuilding a reputation as payment innovators. These nonbank players are viewed as disruptive and innovative, a position once held by financial institutions. These nonbank players are viewed as disruptive and innovative, a position once held by financial institutions. By Jeff Weikert.