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Lessons Learned From the Fourth United States Bank Failure of 2023

Perficient

Heartland Tri-State began operations in 1985 under the name First National Bank of Elkhart. In 2017, the bank was converted from its National Charter to a Kansas state-chartered bank and renamed Heartland Tri-State Bank. In 2019, it expanded by buying its fourth branch from a competitor.

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Getting real about real-time payments in the United States

Accenture

Many view instant payments as a powerful catalyst to re-architect financial infrastructures and how payments are managed. The United States is an instant payments laggard compared to the rest of the world. Despite these challenges, there is momentum in real-time payments adoption in the United States.

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Today In Digital-First Banking: Ukrainian Bank Teams With FinTech Startup; Oportun Pursues US National Bank Charter

PYMNTS

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, Ukrainian financial institution UKRSIBBANK is collaborating with Sweden-based FinTech upstart Dreams, while Oportun Financial is pursuing a national bank charter with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). FinTech Oportun Seeks US National Bank Charter.

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China’s Purchasing Managers Index Rallies Amid Relaxed Controls

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The purchasing managers’ index increased from last month’s record low of 35.7 The ruling party, for its part, is aiming to rejuvenate the second biggest economy around the globe after calling success over COVID-19, while the United States and other governments shuttered companies amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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FICO's National "Score A Better Future" Credit Education Program Reaches Milestone

FICO

We recently announced our milestone 15th financial education event of this national program and we couldn’t be prouder of how much the program expanded in the last two years. In a collective post-event survey, 94% of attendees said that the event gave them the tools they needed to manage their finances better in the future.

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PSCU Partners With Lean Industries For Dispute Management

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PSCU, a national payments credit union service organization, is teaming up with dispute management firm Lean Industries to process disputes, PSCU announced in a press release on Monday (Nov. The company will leverage Lean Industries’ AdjustmentHub and NetworkHub solutions to manage dispute services. “As

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Western Union CFO On Q2 And The New-To-WU Consumers’ Big Digital Shift

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Management added that WesternUnion.com is currently available in more than 75 countries, with bank account payout in over 100 nations. The outflow of funds from the United States has also ticked up. He said some nations have better social safety nets or managed the virus better in the early phases than others did.