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Robert Fisher: The nimbleness of community bankers

Independent Banker

Let’s rediscover what it means to be community bankers. Because as community bankers, it’s what we do. That just may be community bankers’ word of the year. Mergers and acquisitions in our markets may lead to opportunities to draw in new customers. Emerging options like cryptocurrency may warrant strategic consideration.

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New Trends Redefining the Role of Community Banks

Independent Banker

This year, an overwhelming amount of industry and media attention has been focused on sky-high neobank valuations, big tech’s continued foray into banking, and emerging finance trends, like buy-now-pay-later and the growing cryptocurrency market. Community FIs are critical to maintaining competition and equity in the U.S.

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FTX-Linked Bank Exits Crypto Markets

Banking Exchange

Farmington State Bank plans return to community banking roots after crypto platform’s collapse Community Banking Blockchain Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Digital Feature Feature3

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A community bank-fueled payments rail

Independent Banker

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. A different kind of peer-to-peer payment service is now available, “built by community banks for community banks.”.

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How a Community Bank Launched a Retail Crypto Platform

ABA Community Banking

Banks of all sizes are hearing from many customers that they want exposure to the fast-growing but volatile cryptocurrency market. The post How a Community Bank Launched a Retail Crypto Platform appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Uphold Powers Cryptocurrency Payroll

PYMNTS

In the developed world of workers in the United States and Europe, the ability to be paid in cryptocurrency probably would not add all that much to their daily life. Those are markets, he said, where the local currency is devaluing, or where it can be hard to access funds quickly and inexpensively. A Natural Evolution.

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An abundance of caution: Cryptocurrency and Community Banks

Long Lasting Ideas

For those of us of a certain age, cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and others seem like a shadowy mystery figure in a 1940’s film noir classic. So it was for me, until cryptocurrency came home. A quick story: A few years back, my son invested $100 in a cryptocurrency exchange, Mt.