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Community Bank Outlook: Challenges and Opportunities in 2021 and Beyond

Abrigo

How can community financial institutions thrive in 2021? Community banks provide unique and important banking services for their customers, but they also face significant obstacles. Takeaway 1 Community banks play an important role in the economy and their communities, but they face significant obstacles.

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Onward Financial’s Employer-Backed Payday Loan Alternative

PYMNTS

In an effort to innovate a solution to these cash flow challenges, Washington founded Onward Financial. Founded in 2016, the firm ended 2018 as one of 10 firms nationwide to be awarded $1 million grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Communities Thrive Challenge.

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Hospital ERPs Find Promise In The Cloud

PYMNTS

Cloud technology is relatively old, considering the pace of innovation in the back office. However, that doesn’t mean every business has taken this seemingly basic first step in digital transformation.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Rapid City.

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Congress Presses Fed On Real-Time Payments Plan

PYMNTS

The Federal Reserve’s buildup to faster payments innovation came to a head in August when it announced FedNow , its proposed real-time payments infrastructure under the draft Payments Modernization Act of 2019. Reception toward the initiative was not, however, universally positive. payments ecosystem. Accessibility Beyond Big Banks.

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