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Charles Potts: Opportunities in the fintech landscape

Independent Banker

A convergence of economic and marketplace factors presents community banks with new opportunities for innovation and growth as they look to the new year. The fintech landscape is shifting. In response, community banks, like $779 million-asset Lead Bank in Kansas City, Mo., Seize the moment to explore innovation.

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Acquire or Be Acquired 2023: Disruption ‘Comes Home’ to Banking

Gonzobanker

While AOBA provides a fertile forum for buyers and potential sellers in the bank M&A space to commensurate, the crowd uses this valuable face time to also delve into discussions about the economy, strategic growth, fintech innovation, competition, and talent wars.

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Temenos to Acquire Kony: So What?

Gonzobanker

This group is known to be pretty adaptive and innovative, so prepare to test the agile skills. Culture Club : There could be employee flight risk as the Temenos culture (especially outside of the United States) can skew more formal corporate than is often preferred at smaller fintech companies in places like Austin. negbombers.

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Finovate Alumni News

Fintech Labs Insights

Cybersecurity innovator DefenseStorm adds Libertyville Savings Bank and PrimeRevenue as clients. Cachet Financial Services partners with the Central Bank of Kansas City to roll out a reloadable prepaid card program. The New York Times features PayActiv.

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Ant Financial Acquires EyeVerify

Fintech Labs Insights

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but EyeVerify will remain in operation as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ant Financial Services and will remain headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Less than a week after EyeVerify’s successful return to the Finovate stage, the company announced that it has been acquired by Ant Financial.

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EyeVerify Teams Up with BioConnect to Boost Payment Security

Fintech Labs Insights

Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, EyeVerify made headlines this spring when Wells Fargo announced that it would deploy Eyeprint ID with its corporate clients with commercial banking accounts. See EyeVerify and more than 70 other fintech innovators as they demonstrate their latest technologies live on stage.

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Wells Fargo to Deploy Biometric Authentication Technology from EyeVerify

Fintech Labs Insights

As reported earlier this year in Bank Innovation, the initiative comes in the wake of EyeVerify’s participation in Wells Fargo’s startup accelerator program. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, EyeVerify won a Best of Show award at FinovateEurope 2016. Toby Rush is CEO and founder.