Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

A secure, open-loop, cost-saving, customer-accessible, multiplatform P2P payments network might sound too good to be true, but community bank consortium Alloy Labs Alliance hopes to achieve just that with the CHUCK payment rail. Julieann Thurlow, CEO of $730 million-asset Reading Cooperative Bank in Reading, Mass.,

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Community banks are at a critical juncture when it comes to cybersecurity. Every year, ICBA surveys the industry and its members to identify their top concerns as part of its innovation strategy. With the explosion of digital solutions, community banks must train bank staff and customers on cybersecurity best practices.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2020

For Brice Luetkemeyer, president and CEO of Bank of St. Elizabeth, a Missouri-based community bank with $150 million in assets, investing in a core banking startup is critical for its future. Together with a group of other community banks, Bank of St. Elizabeth recently invested in Neocova, a St.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

Community banks are pushing for a stronger role with their small business (SMB) customers. However, through an embrace of FinTech collaboration and industry consolidation, community banks appear poised to further dispel assumptions of a lack of digitization. A Consolidating Industry. Strengthening SMB Ties.

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Cisco

JANUARY 10, 2023

As a change agent serving the financial services industry for over 20 years, it is a great privilege to collaborate with Bank, Insurance, and Wealth Management institutions to devise and execute digital transformation strategy, solve complex business problems, and leverage technology to strengthen business results.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2019

Automation is the theme that best describes Chesapeake Bank’s innovation roadmap for 2019, Kevin Wood, managing director of the state-chartered community bank’s business lending division, Cash Flow, told Bank Innovation. “One

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Experts say community banks can use education, biometrics and solid cybersecurity practices to fight this growing area of crime. Say a scammer calls a community bank customer and gains their trust by using information obtained from a major data breach. By Elizabeth Judd. Examples of remote authentication fraud.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Alloy’s Julieann Thurlow, CEO of Reading Cooperative Bank, said, “Community banks play a special role in the lives of our customers, but we don’t have the same IT and innovation budgets as the big banks to capitalize on that relationship.” Here In The States.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Community Banks as Venture Capitalists In fact, not all providers of venture capital are venture capitalists. Increasingly, banks are filling the void created by VCs. Among community banks investing in fintech startups, the average investment was nearly $3 million per bank in 2022. billion in 2021.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 8, 2022

For decades community banks have structured fixed-rate loans with adjustable features – the most popular structure is a ten-year fixed-rate loan with a five-year reprice. With short-term interest rates expected to rise through 2022, many community banks are reconsidering their ALCO strategies.

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The Financial Brand

JULY 6, 2023

This article There Are Only Two Kinds of Community Banks: The Innovative & the Doomed appeared first on The Financial Brand. Veteran banker Jay Sidhu frets time is running out for community banks to get serious about innovation. He has ideas for motivating change.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Innovation is a priority for ICBA. That’s why we’ve spent the past three years educating community bankers on the why of innovation: why bankers should be thinking about innovation, why innovation is a top priority in a digital-first environment and why now is the time to act. By Charles Potts, ICBA.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Think of banking and you might think of lending and deposits, where firms make money on the spread between what they pay savers and what they take in from borrowers. But banks cannot live on interest alone. Additional financial products and services must round out traditional banking activities.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Innovation can be a blanket term in the banking world. Is artificial intelligence (AI) for anti-money laundering (AML) compliance innovation? The latest Innovation Readiness Playbook surveyed more than 200 bank executives to reveal the role that core processing and IT infrastructure play in innovation performance and strategy.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Who the competition is, what the lending competition is offering, their delivery channels, and service levels can help community banks differentiate their services and enhance their competitive advantage. Analyzing the competition can also help a bank be realistic about which products it can sell and at what price.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

And according to Doug Brown, senior vice president and general manager of digital banking at NCR , simplicity and innovation have turned what could have been a disastrous year into a transformational pivot for the better.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2018

. “We look forward to serving you and your community bank in the year ahead.”. Happy New Year, community bankers! I’m of course talking about advocacy, education and innovation: the three pillars for which ICBA is known. And to keep the momentum going, check out what’s available through Community Banker University.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

For several years, while state-level legalization has expanded, access to traditional banks remains an issue thanks to their status as federally regulated entities. Today, however, the banking challenge has largely been solved. An Emerging Payments Influencer. “It’s a bit of an inverted model,” he said.

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Abrigo

APRIL 19, 2016

banks incorporate “responsible innovation” as they adapt quickly to these advances, but what exactly does that mean? In a recent whitepaper (download), the regulator outlined the general approach it will take as it evaluates innovative products, services and processes that OCC-regulated banks may offer or perform.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Innovation is oxygen in payments. For financial services firms, innovation is spurring speed, killing friction and fostering loyalty among customers. That, itself, begs the question: What is innovation, really? explained there is wide variation in the definition of innovation.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 4, 2024

Secular changes occur over many business cycles, tend to be slow-moving, and are more difficult to manage with business strategy. Federal Debt – Impact Banking The path of the federal debt is already changing economic and public dynamics. With time, these changes will only amplify. With time, these changes will only amplify.

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The Financial Brand

APRIL 21, 2021

With a niche focus, the bank concentrates on a few things it’s really good at that big banks can't touch and fintechs haven't pounced on. The post How One Community Bank Built its Strategy from an ROA/ROE Analysis appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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The Financial Brand

AUGUST 31, 2020

Building innovation on a basic bank chassis to produce fresh growth and expansion means venturing beyond your institution's comfort zone. The post Taking a Community Bank National Demands a Niche and a Strategy appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In 2022, ICBA’s award-winning ThinkTECH Accelerator program reached more community banks with innovative solutions and partnerships than ever before. For ICBA and our community bank members, 2022 was a year full of potential. In step with community bankers. By Charles Potts, ICBA.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 29, 2019

Bank-backed Zelle will offer its P2P service to core processor technology provider Finastra this year, Bank Innovation has learned. This move is an important part of Zelle's onboarding strategy.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

Fortunately, community banks have greater access than ever before to advanced solutions and technologies to meet those needs. Small businesses also lead the way in innovation. Next, consider your bank’s critical strategy, that three-to-five-year plan that details your business goals and objectives.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The popular refrain in the industry is “innovate or die,” but community banks face added obstacles resulting from the costs and structural limitations of working with core tech providers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

According to recent research from PYMNTS, the industry’s innovation pacesetters are those who devote the most time to developing new features, products and services. They are also the FIs that allocate the majority of their budget and other resources to testing those innovations. Who are the top-performing financial institutions (FIs)?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

When it comes to innovation, credit unions may just be the most innovative of all, while banks big and small fail to keep up with their pace – but they’ve still got a long way to go. Most CUs, along with 80 percent of FIs of all kinds, find themselves stuck in the middle of the pack when it comes to debuting new innovations.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

It’s a challenge to be sure, but it’s one that community banks have previously faced with strength. In fact, this is when community banks shine, bringing stability to customers simply by being relationship bankers who see them and know them. And think about the uncertainty of the economic environment.

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BankInovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Core provider Jack Henry is responding to a widespread shift in the financial services landscape with an open banking strategy that aims to facilitate a fintech-enabled digital ecosystem for community banks. As community […].

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A financial institution’s Banking-as-a-Service strategy needs to be more than an extra credit project for the I.T. The Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) gold rush has clearly begun. Early adopters are earning prestige while investors and a hoard of community banks explore the opportunity to tap into this new source of revenue.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

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. reach more customers? financial health?,” BBVA is one of six U.S.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

The payments space can be dizzying for even the most enterprising community bank. How do you navigate the constant churn of innovations or disruptors? Experts point to a strategy built on customer input and relationship-building. Banking-as-a-service (BaaS). Central bank digital currency (CBDC).

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We spoke with industry specialists about the priorities for community banks as they build a digital loan process for small businesses. It’s critical for community banks to have online loan applications, process automation staff skilled in digitization and more. Doing so can help community banks: Optimize the loan cycle.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

The Clearing House’s RTP finds expansion within the community bank arena, while abroad, the Bank of Thailand is planning its own infrastructure development to accelerate B2B payments. PYMNTS explores these stories and others in this week’s Payment Rail Innovation Tracker. RTP Gains Community Bank Traction.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

In fact, they make the timing of their product rollouts a crucial part of their innovation strategies. Only after observing their competitors’ missteps do they fully commit to the rollout of their innovations. percent of the top innovators in the financial sector said they observe market trends first. As much as 53.3

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