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The banks serving active duty personnel

Independent Banker

Community banks operate on a majority of the country’s military installations. Given their selfless service, active-duty personnel rely on community banks that understand their unique needs. Community banks comprise more than two-thirds of the 66 banks operating on U.S. Photo by: Dero Sanford. By Judith Sears.

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

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Just ask Carvana, the leading online automotive seller and a major force in changing the way people buy cars. Miami is Carvana’s 24th car vending machine location to date — joining Nashville, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Raleigh, Jacksonville, Tampa, Charlotte, Washington, D.C., Ontario (L.A.), Oklahoma City, and Memphis.

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The Big Gorilla

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Far more than any other issue, regulatory compliance is the biggest challenge community bankers experienced in 2015, with 43 percent naming it as such in ICBA’s State of the Community Banking Industry survey. First Security, a $180 million-asset community bank in New Salem, N.D., By Denise Logeland.

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Here’s How The Opioid Crisis Is Losing Retailers $9B A Year

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Smith used drugs for the past decade before starting her recovery journey at Gateway Community Services in Jacksonville, Florida. “As For instance, Home Depot now only accepts store credit for in-store purchases, not online ones, and requires ID when credits are redeemed, thus limiting the resale value of store credit.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. So where do ballyhooed mobile banking and payments developments among the biggest players leave community banks?

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More Data, More To Do

Independent Banker

In a world where information can be the most valuable currency, community banks are gathering more of their internal data. a bank software provider in Cedar Park, Texas, most community banks gather data well for reporting purposes. says most community banks are gathering, monitoring and reporting data well from core areas.

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More Data, More To Do

Independent Banker

In a world where information can be the most valuable currency, community banks are gathering more of their internal data. a bank software provider in Cedar Park, Texas, most community banks gather data well for reporting purposes. says most community banks are gathering, monitoring and reporting data well from core areas.

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