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How Small FIs’ SMB Lending Journeys Nudge The US Toward Open Banking

PYMNTS

For community banks and credit unions, their physical proximity to the small businesses they’re servicing is often pointed out as a major advantage these smaller players hold over the big banks, enabling these FIs to develop deeper relationships with their small to medium-size business (SMB) clients, anticipate their needs and establish trust.

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3 Tips for Targeting Millennial Entrepreneurs

NCR

There’s nothing more suitable for technology disruption than traditional small business banking. And there’s no better way to target Millennial entrepreneurs than with the technology they crave to help them in their business pursuits. These expectations also extend to financial services. Financial institutions are taking notice.

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Fintech And Financial Institutions – Bridging the Gap

NCR

Most community banks and credit unions have only one app, their banking transaction app. Hawaii National Bank’s Hawaii Score enables existing bank customers and non-customers the capability to access a TransUnion credit report and score without the need for a credit card or an existing account with Hawaii National Bank.

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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. The nonbank payment options PayPal, ApplePay, Google Wallet, Starbucks, Kickstarter and Square are household names. Familiar and new.

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10 Top Banking Podcasts You Should be Listening to

Abrigo

Weeding through banking podcasts to find gems. million podcasts in the world, you might find it daunting to weed through the lists on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, or other platforms to find the best banking podcasts. Indeed, with 2.8

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Millennial’s Matter to Bank Marketing

Long Lasting Ideas

As the years passed a kid who opened a savings account at 10 opened a checking account or a student loan at the same bank before heading off to college at 18. In the age of Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and online banking, the old assumptions are shattered. Offer millennials the human touch. And we have a few of our own. *

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Thoughts from American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015

Celent Banking

It´s not about doing everything from every channel—it´s about optimizing the customer experience across the variety of methods used to interact with the retailer (or bank). Community banks differentiating from large institutions : This was a common thread running throughout the presentations. Presenters proposed some solutions.