Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet. THE BANKER AWARDS The Bank Acquisition of the Year – goes to the unique PacWest and Banc of California deal. Employees are back to work. We are in awe.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 18, 2024

Regulatory headwinds, iffy economic conditions and a more conservative approach to tech innovation spending are combining to put a damper on BaaS growth. That adds up to opportunity for larger banks (>$100 billion in assets) to get into the space more aggressively. Big surprise, eh? Bank-offered BNPL will grow significantly.

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Abrigo

MARCH 24, 2021

Independent Banker Survey. The top banking challenges in 2021 are growing loans and earnings, according to Independent Banker’s recent 2021 Community Bank CEO Outlook survey. Technology sets up future lending success. Here's what they're doing. Would you like others articles like this in your inbox?

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Happy New Year, community bankers! I’m of course talking about advocacy, education and innovation: the three pillars for which ICBA is known. And if you haven’t done so already, I encourage you to also come up with a community banking resolution—one that helps you flourish as a professional. Where I’ll be this month.

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Alex Jimenez

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Money 20/20 USA has become the biggest FinTech gathering in the US. This year the conference did not disappoint, although, in many regards, it felt quite different from previous years. Observations As I mentioned, the show felt quite different from last year, which was the first full-attendance in-person session following the COVID-19 shutdown.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 10, 2019

With no signs of dissipating, it is just a matter of time before an incident happens in your customer base, if it has not happened already. These crimes can result is significant loss of financial resources for the victims and often greatly impact their quality of life. The under-reported and growing crime. billion annually.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

Is the credit union market ready for its close-up? It’s a market that is showing clear signs of growth. This inaugural edition of the Tracker covers the most significant recent developments from around the credit union market, including notable innovations, industry partnerships and efforts to challenge and change regulations.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It happens every time they open a checking account, apply for a mortgage, make a direct deposit, log into a bank’s website or chat with a banker, and more. Community banks own an enviable amount of data, but not all are leveraging it to its fullest extent. We can take that data and we can reach that person online,” Catalano says. “If

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For a long time, these rock-solid bankers have seen loan officers patronize them with passive encouragement while rarely referring a customer their way and never taking the time to understand their product offerings. -Anonymous. Yet for more than a decade, cash management professionals have shown their resiliency.

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Perficient

MAY 21, 2021

Within mere weeks, 22 women are in the final stages of completing a Perficient-sponsored coding bootcamp in Detroit; their final project includes designing their own apps, all of which serve the world in various ways and all certain to make an impact. Learn More About Perficient’s Bright Paths. Celeste Rowe’s Bright Paths Project: Grow Better.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 17, 2022

As technology buyers, banking executives need to up their game on tech purchases and technology performance management. This technical friction causes initiatives to slow and allows less room for innovators to deliver new value. Navigating service these days feels like trying to work through a medical HMO call center.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

ICBA’s National Community Bank Service Award winners for 2021 demonstrate that when their local areas need support, community banks are there with innovative, compassionate and thoughtful responses. Bob Moore, Augusta Food Bank’s executive director, says traffic was backed up for miles. Last year was earth-shattering in many ways.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Customers love digital self-service—right up until they don’t, and then they want a live person. In our work with banks and credit unions around the country, an unavoidable truth comes up again and again: Even the flashiest digital strategy falls flat without the backing of a strong contact center.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Premium benefits packages, professional development and TLC during the pandemic—this year’s winners do everything in their power to keep their community bankers happy and fulfilled. Keeping up communication. We asked both leaders and staffers to tell us what makes their community banks stand out as employers. LESS THAN $250 MILLION.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 21, 2015

I gave my teams 8% of their budgets to blow [on innovation] and we talked about what we learned every week.”. Oracle’s Innovation Lounge. Tripodi told bankers to look for the functional, emotional and societal benefits of our brands and to tell better stories to broaden appeal. Main Sessions: Welcome to the SharkTank!

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2016

In 1947 a carpenter from Billund Denmark came up with the single greatest design innovation in the history of toys. He called it the lego. According to an actual mathematician, the six basic lego blocks yield about 100 million combinations. If we want to reduce it to a world – it is abstraction. How do you abstract the problems?

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

And, man, did it ever … with the Aliens -esque signs of bankers getting their brains sucked out (or was it minds being blown by presenters, not sure?). He appealed to bankers to talk about their value creation and higher purpose instead of just making money. Innovation Showcase & Global Innovation Awards.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In this week’s installment of PYMNTS’ Weekly Tech Center Roundup , we look at how the country’s capital city is developing a tech landscape that’s quickly catching up with its western counterparts. billion in EU funds aimed at promoting an innovative economy after joining the EU in 2014. Poland brought in €7.2

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

A deep mistrust is growing for anything that feels bureaucratic or obfuscated, and bankers stand at a crossroads as to where they may fall in this shakeout. In the post-Wells-scandal world where the shift from people and bricks to machines and digital is getting very real, bankers are scrambling to build new generations of their businesses.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

A deep mistrust is growing for anything that feels bureaucratic or obfuscated, and bankers stand at a crossroads as to where they may fall in this shakeout. In the post-Wells-scandal world where the shift from people and bricks to machines and digital is getting very real, bankers are scrambling to build new generations of their businesses.

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Utah System Community Marketing 60

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Fans of the decision hailed it as innovative, out-of-the-box and the most “relevant decision” the Nobel committee could have made. First up they’d like someone to tell them what is actually causing the phones to spontaneously combust. It was bad enough when it was just a recall of 2.5 The total losses are estimated to be in the $5.3

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 26, 2016

Ideas, programs and resources to boost local entrepreneurship. Tim Williamson, founder and CEO of Idea Village, a startup incubator in New Orleans, goes further by arguing that a strong foundation of thriving entrepreneurs is the most important resource for any local community in a variety of ways beyond job creation and economic activity.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014. Price: $7.9B. Price: $3.2B.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

This week we look at Monit , a Boston-based startup innovating in our favorite sector, small biz banking. However, small businesses can sign-up directly, though the landing page to do so is not even mentioned on Monit’s homepage. A nice gain on paper for Eastern’s 25% initial stake. Can Eastern do it again with Monit?

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2014

We are seeing it show up lots of places, it’s real and it’s great for this industry. A keen industry mind who banks the highest tweets-per-minute ratio of anyone out there, Bradley departed his VP digital strategy position at California’s $3B Mechanics Bank to be North American head of innovation for $77B and Top 20 worldwide bank Santander.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Sure, we bought some December options on west Texas crude at $100 a barrel, but it was only with a third of the 401(k)—plenty of time to make that up, right? It’s hard for any banker to avoid gulping at the sheer long-term performance of George Gleason II and his team at the Bank of the Ozarks. ” – Tom Armstrong. That’s two.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

This week we look at Monit , a Boston-based startup innovating in our favorite sector, small biz banking. However, small businesses can sign-up directly, though the landing page to do so is not even mentioned on Monit’s homepage. A nice gain on paper for Eastern’s 25% initial stake. Can Eastern do it again with Monit?

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Boston Fintech Tools Innovation 15

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. It’s become a familiar story, usually with a new splash. s entry into the payments business with Apple Pay.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Long-time Free-Space Optics (FSO) player AOptix has shut up shop and is selling off its assets at auction next week… the company is currently trying to shop around its intellectual property. For those who’ve been reading, we’ve had failure on the brain recently. Some of the fail-related research we’ve issued includes: The Downround Tracker.

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