Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2025

Our recognition as the #3 community bank in the state by GOBankingRates in 2025 reflects our commitment to Growing, Together with the communities we serve. Yet, the banking industry is at a turning point. To stay ahead, we must blend our community roots with cutting-edge innovation.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2021

How can community financial institutions thrive in 2021? Community banks provide unique and important banking services for their customers, but they also face significant obstacles. Takeaway 1 Community banks play an important role in the economy and their communities, but they face significant obstacles.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Silicon Valley is coming to banking? That happened long ago — just ask Silicon Valley Bank, a financial institution built to serve the world’s center of innovation. SVB claims it banks a staggering two-thirds Read More. Few bankers can claim better knowledge of what the tech giants are up to. Startups, you say?

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2020

For Brice Luetkemeyer, president and CEO of Bank of St. Elizabeth, a Missouri-based community bank with $150 million in assets, investing in a core banking startup is critical for its future. Together with a group of other community banks, Bank of St. Elizabeth recently invested in Neocova, a St.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2023

Inspired by the entrepreneurship of lemonade stands, Scottsdale Community Bank created a microloan program. Photo by Brandon Sullivan De novo Scottsdale Community Bank set out to provide microloans to small and mid-size businesses, family organizations and nonprofits—a project that was inspired by the humble lemonade stand.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 5, 2018

The fintech is partnering with community bank, INTRUST Bank for this purpose, the companies announced yesterday. Small business lending platform Funding Circle will be working with a traditional lender to fund loans on its platform.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Community banks are independent institutions fueled by the needs of their individual communities, so what constitutes innovation will look and feel different for every bank. As the popular saying goes, “Creativity is intelligence having fun”—and the same can be said for innovation. Photo by Robert Severi.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 19, 2018

Finastra, which was formed from the union of Misys and D+H, and calls itself the world’s third largest fintech company in the world, has acquired American software company Malauzai in an attempt to strengthen its foothold in the American banking market.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – Josh Rowland, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Lead Bank, will join Jane Barratt, CEO of GoldBean, to discuss banking innovation and bank-startup partnerships. Bank Innovation 2018 will take place March 5-6 in San Francisco. At Lead Bank, a Kansas City, Mo.-based

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

With consumer expectations seeming to evolve faster every year, community banks could consider partnering with a fintech to keep up with technological innovation. Swashbuckling, nimble, well-funded and unapologetically entrepreneurial, fintechs are offering innovations that allow community bankers to dream big in a host of ways.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 10, 2022

Nominations for 40 Under 40: Emerging Community Bank Leaders 2022 are now open! 40 Under 40 seeks to recognize community banking’s brightest, most promising young professionals. Community Involvement. Innovation. 40 Under 40: Emerging Community Bank Leaders awards is sponsored by FIS.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

However, there may be an opportunity to get more contactless cards into the hands of consumers — an opportunity that involves community banks and is backed by financial incentives. ICBA Bancard’s 1,600 community bank customers have issued more than 7.3 ICBA Bancard’s 1,600 community bank customers have issued more than 7.3

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

A spirit of innovation and can-do attitude will serve you well this year, helping you remain ahead of the curve and address issues that arise. With the aftereffects of the pandemic still at hand, community banks are facing an unparalleled level of uncertainty. We are a community of community bankers, and we lean on one another.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Alloy’s Julieann Thurlow, CEO of Reading Cooperative Bank, said, “Community banks play a special role in the lives of our customers, but we don’t have the same IT and innovation budgets as the big banks to capitalize on that relationship.”

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2018

Community banking can be one of the most rewarding and most challenging areas of financial services in which to work — that’s the view, anyway, of Rebeca Romero Rainey, president and CEO of Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) , who recently joined the nation’s leading advocacy organization that exclusively represents community banks.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

Chris Tremont, EVP Virtual Banking, Radius Bank Banks are not usually known for their disruptive nature and quick decisioning. Radius Bank is known just for that. In the past three years, this community bank has shut down all of its branches except for one in Boston, transforming into a Read More.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

And according to Doug Brown, senior vice president and general manager of digital banking at NCR , simplicity and innovation have turned what could have been a disastrous year into a transformational pivot for the better.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We asked both leaders and staffers to tell us what makes their community banks stand out as employers. Key Community Bank: Leading by example. Key Community Bank. At the heart of Key Community Bank’s work culture is connection. Greg Dennis, Key Community Bank. “We

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

.; CNB Bank, Berkeley Springs, W.Va.; Midwest Bank, Norfolk, Neb. In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. Bank of Montana: Breaking the mold. Bank of Montana.

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ABA Community Banking

APRIL 13, 2023

How can community bank emerging leaders take initiative in innovation? The post Podcast: The just-do-it mindset in community bank innovation appeared first on ABA Banking Journal. Tim Shangle advises bankers to take small steps and explore what new technologies can do.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

Community banks are pushing for a stronger role with their small business (SMB) customers. However, through an embrace of FinTech collaboration and industry consolidation, community banks appear poised to further dispel assumptions of a lack of digitization. A Consolidating Industry. Strengthening SMB Ties.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Against this backdrop, agtech—the application of technology to every aspect of the food production process, from farm to table—is growing in importance to the mission of ICBA and community banks. In fact, community banks provide about $155 billion in agriculture loans. Farmers and Merchants Bank in Milligan, Neb.,

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Demand for digital solutions continues to accelerate, making innovation an imperative for community banks looking to excel in today’s evolving market. That’s why ICBA makes innovation a priority and provides community banks with the information and tools necessary to grow and succeed in today’s competitive landscape.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Innovation can be a blanket term in the banking world. Is artificial intelligence (AI) for anti-money laundering (AML) compliance innovation? The latest Innovation Readiness Playbook surveyed more than 200 bank executives to reveal the role that core processing and IT infrastructure play in innovation performance and strategy.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Bank executives from community banks and credit unions are not meeting the demands of their SMB customer as well as they think they are, according to a recent report.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. What is your bank’s research and development budget for new products?

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Growing challenges and complexity Financial crime isn’t what it used to be; cybercriminals are more innovative, faster, and harder to catch. Here at Abrigo, we’ve been doubling down on innovation even when others were pulling back. Making a difference in communities Banking is more than just numbers and transactions.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Last week, Bank Innovation wrote about the difficulty smaller banks claim to experience offering their customers the P2P platform Zelle. The smaller financial institutions voiced concerns of long waits and an underlying bias on the part of bank-backed Zelle toward larger institutions.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Last week, Bank Innovation wrote about the difficulty smaller banks claim to experience offering their customers the P2P platform Zelle. The smaller financial institutions voiced concerns of long waits and an underlying bias on the part of bank-backed Zelle toward larger institutions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

For several years, while state-level legalization has expanded, access to traditional banks remains an issue thanks to their status as federally regulated entities. Today, however, the banking challenge has largely been solved. “It’s a bit of an inverted model,” he said.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Independent Banker ’s annual Community Bank CEO Outlook survey reveals how community bank leaders plan to leverage today’s deposit-laden banking environment to grow this year. Janet Silveria, Community Bank of Santa Maria. So, what’s at the top of community bank leaders’ to-do lists?

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Community banks own an enviable amount of data, but not all are leveraging it to its fullest extent. By Mindy Charski People share important data about themselves with their community bank in myriad ways. Data about existing customers can even help community banks improve their efforts to find new customers.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Community banks are at a critical juncture when it comes to cybersecurity. Every year, ICBA surveys the industry and its members to identify their top concerns as part of its innovation strategy. With the explosion of digital solutions, community banks must train bank staff and customers on cybersecurity best practices.

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ABA Community Banking

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As young people increasingly turn to unregulated, nonbank technology providers for their banking needs, innovation in the banking industry is not just an option — it is an imperative, outgoing ABA Chair Julieann Thurlow said.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2019

Automation is the theme that best describes Chesapeake Bank’s innovation roadmap for 2019, Kevin Wood, managing director of the state-chartered community bank’s business lending division, Cash Flow, told Bank Innovation. “One

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

MOXY bank , preparing to be one of the first new community banks to launch in the U.S. in decades, has announced that it is working with technology solutions company NYMBUS to integrate its core digital banking and payment services.

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