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Scottsdale Community Bank: Making microloans

Independent Banker

George Weisz, Scottsdale Community Bank But for all its embrace of technology, the community bank took its inspiration for an innovative lending program from an old-school tradition: kids’ lemonade stands. Expanding the lemonade stand Something So Worth It—a nonprofit organization in Phoenix, Ariz.,

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

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SoFI gets a commercial bank that brings deposits, compliance, AND business lending. Let’s see how this new scale allows for big investments in future innovation. It’s hard to understand how Clobes has time in the day to drive her unlimited amount of leadership activities. Merger (MOE) of the Year: Credit Union.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

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Under Stuart’s leadership over the past 17 years, OnPoint has gone from under $2 billion in assets to knocking on the door of $10 billion, all while becoming the most recognized financial brand in the Portland market and achieving some of the industry’s best profitability in 2023. The “What the Hell Are Bankers Doing?”

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

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It is an innovator with tech (e.g., And Partners CEO John Janclaes helped put Kony on the market map in mid-size shops, even keynoting Kony’s conference with a leadership book in tow. Consumers was the first big credit union to deploy the Phoenix core system and this year was the first big go-live of the Lumin digital banking system.

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The 2015 GonzoBanker Awards

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In the age of Twitter, Apple Pay and Lending Club, it’s important to remember the shareholder performance delivered by Gleason and team when compared to the behemoths. Bank Innovation named Jill one of the 10 most innovative CEOs in banking for 2015, and we doubt that Bank Innovation would know who Jill is if not for her presence on Twitter.

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Finastra Acquires Mobile Banking Provider Malauzai

PYMNTS

Together, our two companies deliver a fully integrated open core platform for payments, lending and digital, across Finastra’s 4,500-strong U.S.-based We value Malauzai’s market leadership and its open approach, which is in perfect alignment with our open platform vision.”. based community market customers and Malauzai’s non-core U.S.-based

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Finovate Spring 2018 – Day 2

William Mills

How they describe their product/innovation: Project Finance is a personal finance application that shows users the future of their finances based on all the choices and decisions they’re making today. A TON of really old technology is being used in mortgage lending. Except for the second gong of the day they did well.