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Gulf Winds’ Data Driven Approach To Member Retention

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However, it is a quickly changing industry, thanks to digital banking. Its omnipresence is altering how members want to interact with their CUs, though regulatory and compliance issues often mean that members cannot reasonably expect the same lightning-fast interactions they might get from banks and FinTech firms.

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Fintech Fundings: 15 Companies Raise $125 Million Week Ending May 1

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Digital banking platform for financial institutions. HQ: Grand Rapids, Michigan. Tags: Peer-to-peer, P2P, lending, investing. Latest round: $50 million Series C (at $200 million valuation). Total raised: $76 million. Source: Crunchbase. MX (formerly MoneyDesktop). HQ: Provo, Utah. Latest round: $30 million Series A.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

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Credit Union Merger of the Year – Goes to Lake Michigan Credit Union and its CEO Sandy Jelinski for acquiring Florida-based community bank Encore. Expect a lot more cross-breeding of deals between banks and credit unions in the years ahead. And let’s be honest, no right-thinking banker wants any part of Amazon forming a bank.

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Banking’s CRM Conquerors

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The bank not only found opportunities to eliminate the need for manual data entry, but it also estimated that 25 CRM users are saving about an hour per week just by making data easier to find. Lake Michigan Credit Union tackled the notorious “next best product” challenge by incorporating member data and overlaying organizational priorities.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

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The Ecosystem Award – Goes to Partners Credit Union for its collaborative member experience work with digital banking vendor Kony (now part of Temenos). The digital banking provider helped implement digital competitiveness against big banks that Partners sought.

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Finovate Fall 2016 Live Blog – Day 2

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International lending platform – Create opportunities for Investors. 2015 formed aspire to address inefficiencies in alternative lending market. Andrew Barnett – Principal Digital Banking and Payments Consultant and Elizabeth Santorelly. Many of the team appears to be professors in Michigan.

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

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SoFI gets a commercial bank that brings deposits, compliance, AND business lending. Seacoast Bank is at it again… and this time it is blowing past $10B in a big way. In just five months, Seacoast announced three bank acquisitions ( Drummond, Apollo , and Professional ) totaling a little over $4.7B

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