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Helping Community Banks Turn On The Innovation Switch

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Innovation has always been important for community banks, but the driving force of digitization over the last decade has greatly sped up the pace, said Kevin Tweddle, chief innovation officer for the Independent Community Bankers of America ( ICBA ). Community banking is no exception. Leveling the Playing Field.

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

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For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. Being months away from bankruptcy, Kim launched a bold five-step plan driven by a strategy around innovation.

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Charles Potts: Innovation trends for 2023

Independent Banker

Image by Worawut/Adobe By Charles Potts As we turn the page to a new year, the innovation evolution continues. ICBA is leaning into it, bringing its ThinkTECH Accelerator program and innovation efforts in-house to provide community bankers with targeted solutions. Momentum around faster payments, real-time payments and FedNow.

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Red Hat: Innovating Payments The Open Source Way

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Simply put, the back-office systems are ill-equipped to handle the demands of technological innovation, especially as financial services cross channels. You want to provide your customer with new and differentiated services, but at the same time, there are limitations to systems’ ability to scale without affecting stability or performance.”.

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Salesforce Launches NFT Cloud

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The scam allegedly involved thieves impersonating members of the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collective, along with the Okay Bears NFT community, which has upward of 150,000 followers on Twitter, to steal usernames and passwords to obtain NFT ownership.

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For Credit Unions: Trust, But Innovate

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In some ways, the average credit union customer is very much like the average customer of any financial institution. At the end of the day, he noted, trust is the critical element at credit unions, and the main differentiator between credit union customers and other banking customers. The Security Core.

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Ondot’s New Cloud Service Taps Digital Innovation For Banks

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Ondot said its 4,000 banks and credit unions will see faster and easier upgrades while also gaining access to the latest innovations and functionality. This option allows mid-sized and smaller issuers to more quickly and easily launch these services and compete with large national banks on digital customer experience.”.