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Oregon Community Credit Union launches digital platform

Bank Innovation

Oregon Community Credit Union (OCCU) has launched phase one of its digital platform, a move meant to “set the foundation” for the credit union’s new focus toward automation, Chris Whittaker, vice president of consumer lending, told sister publication Auto Finance News on Monday.

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Retail banking trends to look out for in 2023

Independent Banker

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. What’s on the horizon for retail banking? We spoke with two community banks that have ramped up their services to meet—and exceed—the changing expectations of customers. So how are retail banks meeting this challenge? By William Atkinson.

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Square Partners With POWDR To Offer Ski Resorts Contactless Transactions

PYMNTS

“POWDR chose to partner with Square because they help elevate the guest experience from enabling fast, secure, contactless payments to integrated online-ordering solutions,” Justin Sibley , co-president of POWDR, said in the release. Bachelor, Oregon; Woodward Park City, Utah; and SilverStar in British Columbia, Canada.

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Wildfang Is Building Its Brand With Clicks And Bricks

PYMNTS

Log another win for brick-and-mortar in the retail history books: Despite years of retail apocalypse criers, the industry continues to show that it’s not dying at all — it’s just evolving. Wildfang CEO & Co-founder Emma McIlroy says that’s why the company is approaching physical retail as a hub for its community.

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Food Stamps Online: The $75B Grocery Game-Changer?

PYMNTS

In a refrain that ought to sound a bit familiar to anyone who has looked at the reasons the poor pay more for financial services, the reasons the poor pay more for food and other retail goods are complex and widely argued about. SNAP online . Is there any way out of that? The two-year program will go live this summer.

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SNAP Users Shut Out Of The Digital Grocery Aisles

PYMNTS

Looking at the past several weeks of PYMNTS consumer survey data, four times more consumers are buying groceries online instead of going into the grocery store these days. Smith suffers from a chronic medical condition affecting her connective tissue and laments the fact that she can’t use her SNAP to easily shop online.

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Sharing Plant-Based Family Snack Recipes Via eCommerce

PYMNTS

But it wasn’t until many years later that he decided to go all-in on the mushroom jerky concept, working with them to reformulate the recipe and manufacture the jerky in Portland, Oregon. Pan also believes that plant-based foods are growing at five times the pace in retail sales versus regular groceries. Texture and Flavors.

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