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The Biggest Banking, Regulatory Challenges For Today’s Entrepreneur

PYMNTS

and finance experts are celebrating with new data on the state of the entrepreneurial community. But analysts from Bank of America, Square, Navcom and the National Association for the Self-Employed warn that challenges for some SMBs have reached new heights, too. National Small Business Week is this week in the U.S.,

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The case for end-to-end digital lending

Independent Banker

Offering digital lending isn’t about the bells and whistles. Community bankers tell us why. First State Bank & Trust in Williston, N.D., started developing its digital lending platform about three years ago—and the bank is really glad it did. “I’m Chris Jundt, First State Bank & Trust.

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Fintech Deals to Watch: Back to School

Gonzobanker

Digital Engagement Had Great Attendance and Extracurriculars. Digital banking provider Alkami acquired data analysis and marketing campaign management provider Segmint Digital banking and payments provider Bottomline was acquired by Thoma Bravo for $2.6B.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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Creating a Customer-Centric, Digital Financial Institution

Abrigo

A farmer, a university student, and a business owner walk into a bank. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but for many community financial institutions, a spectrum of different customers and banking needs is something that they see every day. Technology, like banking, isn’t “one-size-fits-all.”

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Is Small Business Lending Facing a ‘Moment of Reckoning?’

Gonzobanker

article , former Small Business Administration administrator Karen Mills said community banks with strong small business customer bases that don’t find new ways to serve them digitally are going to face a “reckoning.” While online lenders Kabbage and OnDeck lent $2 billion and $2.5 In a recent American Banker.

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Credit Union Helps US Marijuana Businesses Put Down Roots

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Part of our mission is to improve the quality of life in our communities. So, when we started talking to our board of directors about entering the cannabis banking space, we really looked to our mission statement.”. The industry is looking for basic banking services,” she said. “If

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