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Community Banks Accelerate FinTech Integrations

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This week’s look at the latest bank-FinTech tie-ups shows Banking-as-a-Service and other FinTech players embracing smaller regional and community banks to elevate small- to medium-sized business (SMBs) and corporate banking offerings. Build, buy or partner? Finastra Chosen by Community FI. Faster Payments scheme.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

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Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. That’s enough to send normal people into the fetal position.

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

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In 2021, there were more than 120 fintech IPOs in the U.S., 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Acquisition of the Year: Bank Acquiring a Fintech. Acquisition of the Year: Fintech Acquiring a Bank. Oh, what a mere 12 months can do.

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Renaud Laplanche’s Second Act

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But in what is shaping up to be Renaud Laplanche’s second act in online lending and FinTech world, it seems as though the executive may be ready to take the wraps off his newly founded online lending startup, Upgrade.

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Major Core Vendors Are Failing Regional Banks

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Energetic folks like Chip Mahan and Frank Sanchez creating a more open core platform at Finxact inspire the age-old love of cool new technology from regional CIOs, but in a world of compliance, vendor management and best-of-breed, these executives will maintain a low risk appetite when contemplating a core switch.

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How to Offset an Evaporating Data Center

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Industry-specific tech talent is consolidating and migrating to programmer and megabank community hotspots in San Jose, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta and Phoenix. Now, fintech vendors are retooling their apps to go even further to the cloud using Amazon, Microsoft and Google server-less functions.

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Fintech Fundings: 36 Companies Raise $480 Million Week Ending March 18

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million for its compliance tools. Here are the fintech deals by size from 12 March to 18 March 2016: Future Finance. Compliance tools for digital interactions. Ghaio Fintech. HQ: Phoenix, Arizona. The post Fintech Fundings: 36 Companies Raise $480 Million Week Ending March 18 appeared first on Finovate.

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