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Community Bank Consolidation Accelerates: Simmons First National in $277M Double Buy in Tennessee

Banking Exchange

Two community banks snapped by Simmons, while Illinois’ Heartland Bank looks to push into Iowa Community Banking Feature3 Feature Management M&A.

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Market your community bank with first-party data

Independent Banker

Community banks own an enviable amount of data, but not all are leveraging it to its fullest extent. By Mindy Charski People share important data about themselves with their community bank in myriad ways. Data about existing customers can even help community banks improve their efforts to find new customers.

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Community Banks Debut FinTech Alliance

PYMNTS

To that end, news came earlier this week in the United States that a dozen community and regional banks have formed a group aimed at exploring the opportunities amid FinTech offerings. The group, to be known as Alloy Labs Alliance, according to a press release , is being managed by FinTech Forge. Guidelines From The UK.

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A community bank-fueled payments rail

Independent Banker

A secure, open-loop, cost-saving, customer-accessible, multiplatform P2P payments network might sound too good to be true, but community bank consortium Alloy Labs Alliance hopes to achieve just that with the CHUCK payment rail. A different kind of peer-to-peer payment service is now available, “built by community banks for community banks.”.

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Iowa bank names a New York banker as CEO

American Banker

Lincoln Savings Bank has tapped Sean Willett, chief administrative officer at Financial Institutions, as its next leader after a six-month search.

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Google Pay Adds 29 US Banks To Mobile Payment Service

PYMNTS

Community Bank of the Bay. Community First Credit Union (OH). Greater Cleveland Community Credit Union. Hometown Community Banks. Iowa Falls State Bank. Building Trades Credit Union. Evans Bank. Federated Bank. First Bank of Boaz. First Central Credit Union. First National Bank of Milaca. Grand Savings Bank.

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Community Banks and Our Retirement Problem

Jeff For Banks

I recently read a report by the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions titled The Retirement Crisis and a Plan to Solve It , led by Senator Tom Harkin (D: Iowa). controlling) they should do is enforce laws against the charlatans that plague the investment community. that reads. The only other sharing (i.e.