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Charles Potts: Fueling growth through innovation

Independent Banker

Demand for digital solutions continues to accelerate, making innovation an imperative for community banks looking to excel in today’s evolving market. That’s why ICBA makes innovation a priority and provides community banks with the information and tools necessary to grow and succeed in today’s competitive landscape.

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Mobile apps for community banks: In search of business value

NCR

Aware of the disruptive changes in how banking products and services are delivered, community banks continue adopting new technologies to keep up with competition and customers’ demand. Will a mobile banking app really help to solve community banks’ challenges or is it just a waste of money? What does it mean for community banks?

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Union Savings Bank’s tech touch

Independent Banker

(L-R): Union Savings Bank’s executive vice president, Rick Judd; vice president of digital channels Chris Barlow; and director of USB Innovation Center Peter Scotch at USB’s historical Main Street Danbury, Conn., Community banks have long been a bastion of relationship-focused service. Photos by Mike Yamin. By Aileen McDonough.

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23 VC-Backed Brick & Mortar Startups Changing The Face Of Main Street

CB Insights

Ample Hills Creamery — named for a line in a Walt Whitman poem — is an ice cream shop and “community gathering place.” MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. Select VC Investors: Breakaway Innovation Group. Everybody Fights .

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First And Ten: Disrupting The School Sports Uniform Process With Customization

PYMNTS

Even school sports uniforms have been dragged into the digital age, courtesy of a Rhode Island DTC company called SquadLocker. The company took an innovative business model and serious sales momentum into the start of the year, pivoted for the pandemic and took $20 million in funding off the table.

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How Big Tech Is Finally Tackling Cybersecurity

CB Insights

We’re continuing to improve our defenses, and I think this also underscores that there are just constant attacks from people who are trying to take over accounts or steal information from people in our community.”. Currently, the company is involved in a class action lawsuit with Rhode Island’s Pension Fund related to the data breaches.

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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

CB Insights

Torris said Boo.com also spent too much on advertising and promotions and failed to keep pushing forward on technology innovations. Select VC Investors: Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation. Add it all up, including interest, and already-cash-strapped Rhode Island could be out as much as $110 million on the loans.

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