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First Bankcard, Provident Bank Team For Commercial Payments

PYMNTS

First Bankcard , a division of First National Bank of Omaha , has formed a strategic partnership with Provident Bank , First Bankcard announced Wednesday (Jan. O’Flanagan, executive vice president of consumer banking at First National Bank of Omaha. “We

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Banks Won’t Skimp on Technology Spend Despite Bleak Economic Predictions

Bank Innovation

Despite predictions of a bleak economy and decreasing investment spending from businesses, banks will not be cutting down their technology spend in 2019, according to Kurt Spieler, Chief Investment Officer at First National Bank of Omaha.

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Buffett Hungry For Banking Stake In India?

PYMNTS

Is India proving a lure, once again, for the “Oracle of Omaha?” This, of course, would not be the first movement of Buffett, via Berkshire, into India’s banking and payments realm – and especially FinTech. The bank is the third largest, as measured by market capitalization, and has broad reach, as noted above.

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The ICBA 22/23 executive committee is all in

Independent Banker

We must continue to fight increased regulation, specialty charter considerations and the potential for more fintech access to traditional rails without the same oversight. Omaha, Neb. I believe that partnerships with community bank-focused fintechs is critical to our success, which is why the ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator is so critical.

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10 Big Bank Marketing Lessons from the ABA Bank Marketing Conference

South State Correspondent

It was agreed that too many lines of business, such as treasury management, commercial lending, and commercial deposits, are not utilizing their marketing departments enough, given the tremendous value of their products. Both ladies detailed the tremendous opportunity, potential fintech partners in this space, and the risks.

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Ballard Spahr Submits Comment Letter to OCC in Support of Proposed True Lender Rule

CFPB Monitor

Our letter draws on Ballard Spahr’s two-plus decades of experience in representing banks and savings associations (“Banks”) in establishing lending programs (“Bank-Agent Programs”) where a Bank obtains substantial assistance from a fintech or other non-Bank company (an “Agent”) to offer Bank loans to consumers or small businesses.

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Fintech Fundings: 12 Companies Raise $240 million Week Ending June 25

Fintech Labs Insights

And there are few fintech success stories bigger than 2008 alum, Credit Karma , which scored $175 million this week at a reported $3.5 That makes the credit score provider the second most valuable alum (after Lending Club , currently trading at $6 billion). So far this year, fintech has attracted $7.9 HQ: Omaha, Nebraska.