Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. Let’s see how this new scale allows for big investments in future innovation. She was a trailblazer and an early innovator in analytics. What an amazing leadership story.

Community 216

Community Fintech Industry Innovation 216

PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

At the time the transaction was announced, the companies said users would benefit from a “highly complementary combination” that offers a range of payments and financial services, spanning account processing and digital banking, integrated payments and the Clover POS system, among other products and services.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Under Stuart’s leadership over the past 17 years, OnPoint has gone from under $2 billion in assets to knocking on the door of $10 billion, all while becoming the most recognized financial brand in the Portland market and achieving some of the industry’s best profitability in 2023. Paul Murphy, founder of Murphy & Co.

Fintech 194

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NCR

JUNE 12, 2017

Any bank embarking on a journey towards omni-channel service delivery will have many questions to answer and challenges to overcome along the way, as I explore in this whitepaper. One of the key stages of an omni-channel transformation is assessing your existing operating model and looking for ways it can be improved.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2016

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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Cisco

MARCH 26, 2021

The last year has brought change and innovation. Customers are also needing to drive operational efficiencies in their security approach. Financial institutions are working diligently to capture the opportunity to deliver a better customer experience with greater convenience and operational efficiency.

Customer Experience 71

Customer Experience Retail Operations Security 71

Insights on Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

In the world of digital banking, bigger isn’t always necessarily better. Australian digital-only bank UBank is aiming to disrupt the banking industry to deliver a simpler, better, smarter customer experience. A truly agile operating model. UBank evaluated cloud providers and chose to work with IBM.

Leadership 87

Leadership Case Study Innovation Online 87

Insights on Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

In the world of digital banking, bigger isn’t always necessarily better. Australian digital-only bank UBank is aiming to disrupt the banking industry to deliver a simpler, better, smarter customer experience. A truly agile operating model. UBank evaluated cloud providers and chose to work with IBM.

Leadership 79

Leadership Case Study Innovation Online 79

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The conversation happened at a time of big change for legacy financial institutions, given the payment innovation and aid to upstart challengers coming from PSD2, the ongoing consumer move to mobile-focused financial services and other factors. Those operations manage and own 50 percent of [U.S. Deposit Trends. Services Ecosystem.

Community Bank 116

Community Bank Community Operations Leadership 116

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This week, two massive deals landed with B2B payments innovators at Fundbox and Tipalti, but they were far from the only players to have secured new funding. BankiFi operates APIs to enable banking clients access to a range of business banking infrastructure to augment their own small business and corporate banking operations.

Payments 149

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

We have a deep dive into Colorado’s digital driver’s license effort and news on Alphabet’s new CEO, as well as data on millennial Black Friday spending. UK Digital Bank Monzo Taps Visa Exec as US CEO. Monzo , London’s digital unicorn, has appointed TS Anil to head U.S. operations. Top News .

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Millennials Colorado Google Leadership 101

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

During a busy year we saw Jill supporting her local community, blogging with Mark Cuban, spinning up new PPP technology and innovating with things like curbside banking. Jill is continually demonstrating just how loud a $300 million community bank can roar! John Beale , longtime CIO of City National Bank.

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Idaho Community Industry Strategy 172

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Union has been a stalwart of the California marketplace since the ’50s, and this gives Andy Cecere and team a great expansion into the Golden State and also some nice wholesale banking business. Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis.

Fintech 143

Fintech Strategy Leadership Lending 143

Alex Jimenez

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Alex Jimenez is vice president and senior strategist for program planning, strategy and standards, Enterprise Technology and Operations at Zions Bancorporation. After a 10-year career in safety consulting, I received an MBA and moved to banking. He told Efma’s Boris Plantier about his life and work.

Strategy 40

Strategy US Operations Digital Banking 40

Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Along with other Linux-based operating systems like Ubuntu (about 60% of cloud-based servers, including those in Microsoft’s Azure, run Ubuntu as an operating system), Red Hat has made a significant impact on both the make-up and the direction of cloud-based computing. Fiserv DNA uses Oracle’s RDMS.

Software 84

Software System UX Community 84

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Sure, we know it’s cliche to point out the merits of this direct banking powerhouse, but the plain fact is that USAA nails every variable in building a Smarter Bank. The bank’s strategy is laser-focused. It is an innovator with tech (e.g., It was the original data junkie. Is the company holiday party in Monaco this year?

Idaho 148

Idaho Conference Data Marketing 148

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. The scariest thing for Facebook is the people who use it.

Payments 196

Payments Google Apple Innovation 196

Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This deal looks good for Temenos, Kony and the banking industry clients of both firms. The digital banking market continues a long burn—this time like the smoke of a Texas summer barbecue. Geneva-based Temenos’ announced the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based digital application provider Kony in a deal totaling $580 million.

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United States Texas Austin Kansas City 88

NCR

MAY 4, 2017

These ‘legacy’ issues also extend to business culture, with entrenched leadership styles, skills and behaviors possibly holding businesses back from genuine innovation and evolution. What is the future of in-person, branch banking, and how does this marry up with the development of digital banking?

Strategy 83

Strategy Customer Experience Regional Retail 83

Insights on Business

JANUARY 28, 2019

transform to become more agile, more digital and more customer-centric. Working with IBM, the bank was able to enable a fully transparent extension of their VMware infrastructure with elastic capabilities while keeping the same operational procedures in a transparent extension of their operations and compute infrastructure over VMware.

San Francisco 87

San Francisco Analytics Albuquerque Security 87

FICO

JANUARY 24, 2018

Advisen: Barbican Takes a Leadership Stance on Cybersecurity Insurance. In 2017 we were honored to receive a Chartis Innovation Award for the Enterprise Security Score, in recognition of the market-proven predictive analytics and innovative machine learning technology FICO has successfully applied to the cyber domain.

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Conference Customer Experience Maine Exercises 55

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation. Leadership and board members. Sigma aims to streamline business operations. A decade of online payments innovation. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Focus on developers.

Online 98

Online Company Retail Payments 98

Alex Jimenez

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The topics discussed varied from arcane technology topics to discussions about general innovation. The hot topics that I heard during these four days were: AI, Cloud, Diversity, and Innovation. Other topics that I sought were Cybersecurity, and APIs (Open Banking). Dmitry talked about their approach towards Open Banking.

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blockchain Conference Security Innovation 40

Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

West: We have a major initiative to significantly improve our digital delivery system. On the heels of that, we’re going to build a new digital banking platform and data warehouse. It’s a major undertaking for a bank of our size. So our attention will be getting our whole organization ready for that new digital system.

Community Bank 91

Community Bank Community Tampa North Carolina 91

William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

How they describe their product/innovation: Project Finance is a personal finance application that shows users the future of their finances based on all the choices and decisions they’re making today. Grounding your organization’s digital transformation in people, processes, and technology is critical. Good job AI Foundry!

Security 40

Security Samsung Strategy San Jose 40

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Since Richman and about 100 other bankers from LaSalle Bank in Chicago joined PrivateBancorp nearly a decade ago, the bank has grown to an $18 billion solid niche player with $10 billion in assets under management. Hats off to a decade of strong leadership and hard work. From Hancock Bank’s Jennifer Wilson at FIS Connect.

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Utah System Community Marketing 60

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Since Richman and about 100 other bankers from LaSalle Bank in Chicago joined PrivateBancorp nearly a decade ago, the bank has grown to an $18 billion solid niche player with $10 billion in assets under management. Hats off to a decade of strong leadership and hard work. From Hancock Bank’s Jennifer Wilson at FIS Connect.

Utah 60

Utah System Community Marketing 60