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The New Rules of Engagement

Independent Banker

Texting millennials enters their private zone. Ask permission before texting or emailing them, and don’t abuse the privilege of your direct access with over-communication. Millennials want to be acknowledged. But do community banks know the unwritten rules of successfully engaging with millennials?

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The New Rules of Engagement

Independent Banker

Texting millennials enters their private zone. Ask permission before texting or emailing them, and don’t abuse the privilege of your direct access with over-communication. Millennials want to be acknowledged. But do community banks know the unwritten rules of successfully engaging with millennials?

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An Add-On Aimed at Coaxing More Millennials into Mortgages

American Banker

Amalgamated Bank in New York has started offering down payment insurance to homebuyers in a move it hopes will set it apart with highly mobile millennial borrowers.

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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? Six years ago I asked in a blog post Will Plain Vanilla Kill Community Banking ? Maybe those millennial futurists don't remember this.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

. ————————————————————————— The ‘En Vogue’ Trend of the Year – Credit unions buying community banks. New-Group-for-Stereotypes-and-Buzzwords. Might be time to. Well done, sir!

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FI Highlight: S&T Bank

NCR

April kicked off Financial Literacy Month so we recently talked with Becky Stapleton, senior executive vice president and chief banking officer at S&T Bank, to learn about the various initiatives they host in order to promote financial literacy in their local community. Is there anything else you would like to add?

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The 2015 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Community bank marketing resources. With market opportunity heating up and big bank and big credit union competitors hitting hard, too many community banks lack marketing resources … or they have 2X more spending in sponsorships than the campaigns, analytics and digital sales improvements that actually bring in new business.