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Giving Community Banks The Contactless Card Boost

PYMNTS

However, there may be an opportunity to get more contactless cards into the hands of consumers — an opportunity that involves community banks and is backed by financial incentives. ICBA Bancard’s 1,600 community bank customers have issued more than 7.3 ICBA Bancard’s 1,600 community bank customers have issued more than 7.3

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ICBA: Building Bridges For The Next Generation Of Community Banks

PYMNTS

Community banking can be one of the most rewarding and most challenging areas of financial services in which to work — that’s the view, anyway, of Rebeca Romero Rainey, president and CEO of Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) , who recently joined the nation’s leading advocacy organization that exclusively represents community banks.

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Why Community Banks Can’t Afford To ‘Wait and See’ About Faster Payment Innovations

PYMNTS

Are community banks missing the chance to climb aboard the faster payments train? With various banks and FinTechs producing innovative solutions — like mobile banking and P2P tools aimed at improving the speed of payments — the pressure is on for community banks to keep up. faster payments system.

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The Impact of Mobile Card Apps On FI Customer Retention

PYMNTS

Community banks and credit unions are feeling the pressure to boost their digital card services or risk losing customers to megabanks and digital challengers, Ondot Systems ’ Chief Strategy Officer Todd Lesher told PYMNTS in a recent discussion. It’s a story told by the data itself, Lesher said. Square announced $1.3

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Crossing the Mobile Divide

Independent Banker

How millennials will accelerate innovation and technology change. You recognize one of today’s most prominent technology dilemmas for community banks: It’s the great mobile divide. Millennials, who will make up half the U.S. Millennials, who will make up half the U.S. By Paul Schaus. that processed $1.3

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

Finding the right place, at the right pace in a volatile and uncertain mobile marketplace. Large banks and nonbanks, merchants and technology companies are pressing to solidify their inroads into the financial transaction business. Research and everyday observation show how consumers are increasingly using mobile technologies.

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CBA of Georgia Spring Meetings: Change Continues to Impact Community Banks

William Mills

The meetings also support the mission of the CBA which is the preservation and development of local, independent community banks in Georgia as well as the philosophy of hometown banking. The CBA has approximately two hundred community banking members. Hello, I’m a Millennial. percent since 1992.

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