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Andrew Pyles, president and CEO of $350 million-asset Eclipse Bank in Louisville, Ky., Pyles notes that while Louisville, Ky.-based Community banks need to take advantage of the digitalization of banking operations.”. ? You don’t go to school to learn how to become head of deposit operations. Invest in tomorrow’s talent.

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We worked with them with loans to buy equipment and vehicles for delivery and the beginning operational cash needs of the business,” Bunnell says. So, when the community bank’s leadership learned of a fintech that needed a bank partner to launch a credit-building tech product, they were intrigued. Louisville. Marion, Ky.