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The Benefits of Leveraging a CRM to Be More Community-Focused

Abrigo

Key Takeaways To better serve their community, as well as stay competitive in this fast-moving environment, savvy CFIs are carefully blending digital innovations with their hallmark relationship banking practices. CFIs reinvest in their communities, supporting local businesses and helping community members make financial decisions.

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Credit Union Innovation Gets A Big Rethink

PYMNTS

The cellphone is an invention; the smartphone is an innovation. That gap between creating something and putting it to ingenious use is where innovation does its magic. CUs, which historically cater to very specific communities and industries, are in a unique position to understand and serve their members’ specific needs.

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Best Community Banks to Work For 2022

Independent Banker

Community Financial Services Bank, Benton, Ky.; In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. Clockwise from top left: Grand Ridge National Bank, Wheaton, Ill.; Midwest Bank, Norfolk, Neb.

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From Community Hubs To In-Store Theater, Retailers Double Down In Digital At NRF

PYMNTS

There’s been a real behavior shift over to digital [and] that won’t go away,” said Celeste Burgoyne , president, Americas and global guest innovation at lululemon. “At Over the past 10 months, that embrace has been retooled and refined to the point where today the IT department appears to be embedded in the marketing department.

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The Open-Source Philosophy

Perficient

Open source is not restricted by licensing agreements, and the user behind open-source software is not forbidden to change, edit, study, or redistribute manipulated versions of it. The freedom to study how the program works and change it so it does your computing as you wish. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

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What Does Innovation Mean For Financial Institutions?

PYMNTS

Innovation can be a blanket term in the banking world. Is artificial intelligence (AI) for anti-money laundering (AML) compliance innovation? The latest Innovation Readiness Playbook surveyed more than 200 bank executives to reveal the role that core processing and IT infrastructure play in innovation performance and strategy.

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So You Want to Be a Venture Capitalist: Best Practices for Community Banks Investing in Fintech Startups

Gonzobanker

Community Banks as Venture Capitalists In fact, not all providers of venture capital are venture capitalists. According to Cornerstone Advisors’ What’s Going On in Banking 2023 study, there are about 500 community banks and credit unions making direct investments into fintech startups. And not just the large megabanks.