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Charles Potts: Fueling growth through innovation

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Greg Ohlendorf, president and CEO at $200 million-asset First Community Bank and Trust in Beecher, Ill., As a three-time participant in ICBA’s ThinkTECH Accelerator program, Ohlendorf has had a front row seat to community bank innovation through collaborative fintech partnerships. understands this well.

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Google Exec To Lead Aussie Bank’s Digital Shakeup

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Google’s Australia and New Zealand managing director, Maile Carnegie, was poached by ANZ Banking Group to act in its newly created group executive digital banking role starting in July, Reuters reported Tuesday (March 1). Data from KPMG estimates that nearly A$27 billion ($19.21

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COVID Casts More Doubt On Future Of Bank Branches

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The big news of the week in this regard is the announcement by Citizens Bank that it will be closing down many of its Stop & Shop grocery locations. Starting in January, the bank will close 40 of its branch banking locations in the stores, more than half of which will be in Massachusetts.

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How Spend Tools Feed Food Banks’ Need For Accountability

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based FinTech, recently added a new corporate card to its portfolio of solutions. Tide , a digital banking solutions provider, issued several updates intended to help SMBs use optical character recognition (OCR) to automatically match receipts with individual transactions. Yordex , a U.K.-based

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How Innovative mPOS Is Paving The Way To A Self-Checkout Future

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Massachusetts locations. The deal, which was announced by the company in January, marked a landmark occasion in the FinTech sector. And retailers are integrating new POS solutions into their brick-and-mortar stores: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions recently announced that its TCx 300 system would arrive in all of Roche Bros.’

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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $330 Million Week Ending Jan 15

Fintech Labs Insights

million to its digital banking platform. Year-to-date fintech companies have raised $450 million in new equity, 67% more than the $270 million raised in the first half of January 2015. Startup digital bank. SaaS banking platform. Mobile banking app developer for financial institutions. Charity Bank.

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Fintech Fundings: 32 Companies Raise $210 Million Second Week of July

Fintech Labs Insights

There has been an average of 28 fintech deals per week this year. Fintech deals by size from 9 July to 15 July, 2016: Blockchain Intelligence Group. Digital banking technology. Digital renter’s insurance. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Tags: Institutions, digital banking, Finovate alum.

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