CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. Leadership and board members.

Online 98

Online Company Retail Payments 98

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

THE BANKING AWARDS. Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. GonzoBanker of the Year – Large Banks. 16 passing of Robert Wilmers, chairman and chief executive officer of M&T Bank Corp. Rick” Callicutt II, BNC’s CEO.

Conference 87

Conference Industry Community Bank Community 87

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Facebook … and the Facebook Community. Facebook leadership underestimated the role that platform governance plays in keeping platforms alive and thriving – and it may be too little, much too late to turn things around. Online and digital banking is an innovation enjoyed by many consumers, as is P2P payments.

Payments 196

Payments Google Apple Innovation 196

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Chris Myers, President & CEO, Citizens Business Bank – During a tumultuous time for West Coast banks, Myers kept his sights on being a top commercial relationship bank. The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion.

Idaho 148

Idaho Conference Data Marketing 148

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. with Coinbase alone attracting $86 billion. Bravo April!

Community 216

Community Fintech Industry Innovation 216

Gonzobanker

MAY 8, 2020

These three reasonable outcomes of the “Great Pause” recession produce some concerning results by the fourth quarter of 2020: More than 25% of these banks will have negative earnings More than 70% of banks will have return on assets of less than.25% 25% 140 banks will have capital levels that have fallen below 8%.

Lending 99

Lending Analytics Analysis Capital 99

Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The deal’s value represents about 30% of IBM’s current stock-market capitalization. Being open sourced, the Red Hat community is able to create forks of the base Red Hat code that carries the open source licensing. Red Hat’s own community-supported edition of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Examples include: Fedora.

Software 84

Software System UX Community 84

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. We are in awe. Seriously in awe.

Fintech 192

Fintech Community Regional Technology 192

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

To those community bankers claiming their growing Compliance departments say no to everything. Community bank marketing resources. Two very strong and focused community banks unite to combine big bank reach with community bank style and make the bet that it can scale to $15 billion and beyond.

Community Bank 60

Community Bank Apple Community Technology 60