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Community Bank Outlook: Challenges and Opportunities in 2021 and Beyond

Abrigo

How can community financial institutions thrive in 2021? Community banks provide unique and important banking services for their customers, but they also face significant obstacles. Takeaway 1 Community banks play an important role in the economy and their communities, but they face significant obstacles.

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Lead Bank and GoldBean Will Talk Bank-Startup Success at Bank Innovation 2018

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE – Josh Rowland, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Lead Bank, will join Jane Barratt, CEO of GoldBean, to discuss banking innovation and bank-startup partnerships. Bank Innovation 2018 will take place March 5-6 in San Francisco. At Lead Bank, a Kansas City, Mo.-based

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success.

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Charles Potts: Opportunities in the fintech landscape

Independent Banker

A convergence of economic and marketplace factors presents community banks with new opportunities for innovation and growth as they look to the new year. For community banks that have yet to start evaluating digital solutions and providers, now is the time to act. Seize the moment to explore innovation.

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nbkc bank Taps Finastra to Build Conversational Banking App

Bank Innovation

Kansas City-based nbkc bank is building a conversational banking app with Finastra on the vendor’s growing FusionFabric.cloud open platform.

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Back to school

Independent Banker

ISD graduate Cailyn Cordell became a teller at Blue Ridge Bank after completing the new business course. Blue Ridge Bank uses one of its new branch locations as an innovative, hands-on classroom for local high school students. So, the bank answers the ‘what’ and we answer the ‘why,’” she says. By Beth Mattson-Teig.

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Congress Presses Fed On Real-Time Payments Plan

PYMNTS

The Federal Reserve’s buildup to faster payments innovation came to a head in August when it announced FedNow , its proposed real-time payments infrastructure under the draft Payments Modernization Act of 2019. Accessibility Beyond Big Banks. Reception toward the initiative was not, however, universally positive.

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