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5 reasons your financial institution should attend the ThinkBIG 2024 conference

Abrigo

Why you'll want to register for the ThinkBIG conference Recommended by your peers at other financial institutions, the ThinkBIG conference hosted by Abrigo fosters networking and professional development. Takeaway 3 ThinkBIG conference sessions can help bank and credit union professionals earn required credits for continuing education.

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10 Lessons From The Small Business Banking Conference

South State Correspondent

Recently, the American Banker hosted their annual Small Business Banking Conference in Nashville, and as always, it was one of the better banking conferences of the year. A critical takeaway from the conference was the changing nature of small business needs and the changing nature of the small bank persona.

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Why Nations Fail

Chris Skinner

I was recently at a Capital Markets conference in Turkey where the main first day keynote speaker is Professor James A. Robinson from the University of Chicago and co-author of Why Nations Fail, a book that changed thinking about what makes for successful countries and what makes them fail.

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8 Tips for Getting the Most out of a Virtual Conference

Jack Henry

Virtual conferences have been on the rise for quite some time now. Think: Wistia’s 2018 CouchCon , USDLA’s 2017 National Conference , and The Learning Guild’s 2019 Emerging Tech & Learning Online Conference.) But in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ve become an industry necessity.

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Is the ThinkBIG Conference Right for My Financial Institution?

Abrigo

The first annual ThinkBIG Conference is right around the corner. The ThinkBIG conference brings together industry thought leaders and experts, financial institution peers, CPAs, auditors and regulators for three days of compelling educational content and networking. Learn from top banking topics from top industry experts.

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Event Horizon: Conference And Trade Show Business Eyes Resurgence

PYMNTS

PYMNTS’ own study of a national sample of 2,800 U.S. percent of respondents who attended business conferences pre-pandemic expressed an interest in attending in-person business conferences as they once did even after getting a vaccine –slightly more at 10 percent for those earning $100,000 or more. consumers conducted on Nov.

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US Treasury Secretary Sees Libra As National Security Threat

PYMNTS

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin believes that Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency could pose as a national security threat. In a press conference on Monday (July 15), Mnuchin warned that Libra “could be misused by money launderers and terrorist financiers” and that it was a “national security issue.”.

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