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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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Lead Bank and GoldBean Will Talk Bank-Startup Success at Bank Innovation 2018

Bank Innovation

At Lead Bank, a Kansas City, Mo.-based based community bank, Lead, Rowland serves in multiple management roles, including.Read More. EXCLUSIVE – Josh Rowland, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Lead Bank, will join Jane Barratt, CEO of GoldBean, to discuss banking innovation and bank-startup partnerships.

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nbkc bank Taps Finastra to Build Conversational Banking App

Bank Innovation

Kansas City-based nbkc bank is building a conversational banking app with Finastra on the vendor’s growing FusionFabric.cloud open platform.

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Small banks: Big challenges and big opportunities

Abrigo

Relationship focus helps CFIs Small banks can leapfrog competitors and better serve their communities by combining their unique advantages with smart management and partnerships. How can community financial institution leaders manage their challenges and seize their opportunities at the same time?

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Bowman Concerned About Community Banks’ Exit from Mortgage Markets

ABA Community Banking

Speaking to attendees at a mortgage industry event in Kansas City, Missouri, today, Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman expressed optimism about the trajectory of the housing market but raised concerns about the declining number of community banks remaining in the consumer real estate mortgage market.

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Charles Potts: Opportunities in the fintech landscape

Independent Banker

A convergence of economic and marketplace factors presents community banks with new opportunities for innovation and growth as they look to the new year. While challenging for some, this convergence of economic and marketplace factors presents community banks with new opportunities for innovation and growth as they look to the new year.

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Kansas City Based Academy Bank Makes Strategic Acquisition

Banking Exchange

The Merger adds 5 Locations Management Feature M&A Feature3 Financial Trends Community Banking.