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Boosting Innovation And Mobile Gaming Via Sports

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Sports are big business around the globe, so it comes as no surprise that retail innovation constantly takes place within that industry, and in combination with payments. The app was initially available at just six locations in California, Iowa and Texas, but now caters to more than 60 venues across the United States. “We

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Market your community bank with first-party data

Independent Banker

When we have first-party data, we can target much more precisely and can obviously reach those individuals one-to-one,” says Andrew Catalano, chief innovation officer of digital marketing agency Austin Williams in Long Island, N.Y. They should also conduct risk assessments and put protections in place to manage risks.

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Community Banks Debut FinTech Alliance

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The group, to be known as Alloy Labs Alliance, according to a press release , is being managed by FinTech Forge. Among the names joining up are Citizens & Northern Bank (based in Pennsylvania), Inland Bank (Illinois) and Lincoln Savings Bank (Iowa). Guidelines From The UK.

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Taking A Data-Driven Approach To Meeting CU Members’ Banking Needs

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Governor Kim Reynolds (R-Iowa) recently passed a State Public Health Emergency Declaration which states that notaries do not have to be physically present to sign off on these documents as a way to speed up the finalization. Using data analytics to make sure consumers can be verified, and data can be kept safe, may be one way to do so.

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Celebrity Event Planner Colin Cowie On How ‘Hospertainment’ Can Save The Events Business

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Burning Man has been canceled, Coachella was delayed and then canceled, there will be no Iowa State Fair and the $300 billion global wedding industry is almost entirely stalled. Cowie said one bright side of a global pandemic is that it’s forced him to innovate and diversify his business. “No

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How to keep good employees

Independent Banker

of adults have left a job to get away from a manager as a way to improve their overall life. Source: Gallup, “State of the American Manager” report. Often, innovation and creativity soar when we allow employees to be curious and explore new ways of thinking.”. Employees leave their managers, not their companies,” she says.

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A community bank-fueled payments rail

Independent Banker

For a community bank to be innovative means you need to make big bets with your depositors’ capital—and that’s something we take very seriously,” Thurlow says. “By By working with other banks, we can share the costs, which allows us to take bigger bets on innovation than each of us could do on our own.”. The whole package. “The