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Alan Kaplinsky wins National Law Review Go-To Thought Leadership Award

CFPB Monitor

I am pleased to share with our blog readers that Alan Kaplinsky, who leads our firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group, was recently awarded the National Law Review’s Go-To Thought Leadership Award in Consumer Finance for his work on our blog, Consumer Finance Monitor. We certainly hope that our readers will agree.

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Paul Watkins, Director of the CFPB’s Office of Innovation, discusses final innovation policies in Ballard Spahr webinar

CFPB Monitor

Alan leads the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group and James is a co-leader of the firm’s inter-disciplinary Fintech Team. Last month, the CFPB finalized its proposed revisions to its trial disclosures and no-action letter (NAL) policies and also finalized its proposal to create a new FinTech sandbox policy.

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10 Top Banking Podcasts You Should be Listening to

Abrigo

We have webinars , whitepapers , and other resources to make your job easier. Breaking Banks Breaking Banks , billed as the #1 global fintech podcast and radio show, began in 2013 and is hosted by media firm Provoke.fm. or largely focused on the domestic banking market. Check them all out in our Knowledge Center.

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How to Win Small Business Loans This Year

Abrigo

You might also like this webinar on small business lending best practices. By the very nature of it, because it’s so transactionally based, loan operations can always be improved on,” said Abrigo’s Vice President of Implementation Alison Trapp during a webinar on process improvement. How to Win Small Business Loans This Year.

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Charles Potts: Challenging the status quo

Independent Banker

So, to help overcome this obstacle, leadership must continually find ways to empower employees across the bank to question the ways things are done and to offer ideas for ways to improve the customer experience and make the organization better. All too often, community banks fall prey to the we’ve-always-done-it-that-way mindset.

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The new IBM Z and IBM DS8880: Mainstays in financial services data centers

Insights on Business

Lofty expectations by millennials, FinTech upstarts, stinging memories of the financial meltdown, and a growing body of stringent regulations are just a few causes for industry-wide upheaval. The recent announcements bear testimony to the two systems’ leadership and constant progression in financial services. Long-standing leadership.

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Is Your Financial PR on Offense or Defense?

William Mills

Offensive PR entails proactively sharing a FinTech organization’s offerings and milestones. The most effective offensive PR occurs when a company can enlist its customers to participate in a webinar or a media interview, for example, and discuss their first-hand experiences. Offensive PR: Creating a Game Plan. Consistency.