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. Customers increasingly demand seamless digital experiences91% of U.S. Customers increasingly demand seamless digital experiences91% of U.S. What is Microsoft Copilot?

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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. Where I’ll Be.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 10, 2020

The technological upgrades Happy State Bank made prior to the COVID-19 crisis has helped the lender service and onboard customers digitally and deploy its own SBA Paycheck Protection Program platform in a matter of days, CEO J. Pat Hickman told Bank Innovation.

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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. Brown said in a recent conversation with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster.

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Perficient

JANUARY 5, 2021

“We’re in the business of helping our clients power innovation and deliver exceptional customer experiences. I am incredibly proud to work with such an amazing team of people who bring innovative and impactful solutions to market for our clients.” ” Mary-Beth Ostasz, AVP of U.S.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Savvy healthcare innovators leverage the power of consumerization by first observing what works in domains outside of their own, and then adapting those successes to address their own challenges. What might you learn from studying emerging innovations used by virtual personal trainers, e-learning platforms, or even credit card companies?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

Simply put, the back-office systems are ill-equipped to handle the demands of technological innovation, especially as financial services cross channels. You want to provide your customer with new and differentiated services, but at the same time, there are limitations to systems’ ability to scale without affecting stability or performance.”.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 26, 2020

Despite market strains caused by the novel coronavirus, providing funds for communities shouldn’t be a major issue for banks, according to Mike McCrary, first vice president of LSBX, Lincoln Savings Bank’s innovation lab.? “The The strength of […].

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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. Being months away from bankruptcy, Kim launched a bold five-step plan driven by a strategy around innovation.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 18, 2020

A Chase spokesperson told Bank Innovation the move would “help us protect our employees as we provide essential services to our customers and the communities we serve.” JPMorgan Chase told its employees today it will be closing about 20% of its branches starting tomorrow.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The Creativity International Design Awards is active in recognizing exceptional design and the designers and innovators who make it happen.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

Although immensely disruptive and, in many cases, devastating to small- to medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ), the pandemic has revealed just how resilient the SMB community really is. Jacob de Geer , co-founder and CEO of iZettle , now a PayPal business, told Karen Webster about the strategy of some of those innovations.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 31, 2020

Dear Reader, For 25 years, Royal Media, Bank Innovation’s publisher, has dedicated itself to serving its business communities with professionalism and integrity. Today, the coronavirus pandemic has created significantly more complexity and uncertainty in our daily lives.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Key Takeaways With more customers leveraging channels like online and mobile banking, community financial institutions are trying to solve how to maintain their hallmark community focus in an increasingly digital world. Technology can create efficiencies that allow them to reimagine customer interactions moving forward.

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Perficient

JULY 30, 2020

In order to see the innovation of Microsoft’s Power Platform firsthand, we sponsored a nationwide Perficient Hackathon, with our teams competing to develop the most useful app for adapting to the “new normal”. See open jobs or join our community for career tips, job openings, company updates, and more!

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 16, 2019

customers last week, the first product launched by the bank since it was acquired by CYBG in 2018. Virgin Money is making a play for the mass affluent. The brand released a new current account for U.K. With its mixture of personal finance management tools, savings features and remodeled branches, Virgin Money is aiming for […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In addition, data and tech are at such a point that offering digital and mobile alternatives, and options for fitness-related classes, can be done in a seamless way — a way that includes a seamless payments experience, too. Our customers are coming in from the couch, or traditional gyms, or running,” he told Webster. Habits And Sushi.

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Perficient

AUGUST 5, 2020

The community is a good one. We also always have opportunities to give back to the Lafayette community, such as our Food Drive to help support a local food bank during the COVID19 pandemic.” — Sara Roberts , Associate Technical Consultant. See open jobs or join our community for career tips, job openings, company updates, and more!

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Perficient

AUGUST 1, 2022

The scam allegedly involved thieves impersonating members of the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collective, along with the Okay Bears NFT community, which has upward of 150,000 followers on Twitter, to steal usernames and passwords to obtain NFT ownership.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a result, our communities have grown stronger and I think we have a newfound sense of confidence in our ability to handle change. Customer experience transcended channels, and we all learned to harness the organization and technology to connect experiences with customers in a more profound way.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Majority, a digital banking platform aimed at immigrant communities, launched to U.S. If you want to build a successful business focusing on these communities, you […]. consumers this week after a four-month beta test.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2019

Depending on where you look, the chasm yawns wide when it comes to innovating with new technologies or features. In a PYMNTS interview with Karen Webster, Joe DeRosa, EVP of Global Sales at i2c , discussed the findings of the July 2019 Innovation Readiness Playbook , subtitled “Leveling the Playing Field for Different-Sized FIs.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

At the end of the day, he noted, trust is the critical element at credit unions, and the main differentiator between credit union customers and other banking customers. It’s a statement borne out by the new Credit Union Innovation Playbook , a PYMNTS/ PSCU collaboration. But, Lynch noted, it is still a starting point.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Image by Worawut/Adobe By Charles Potts As we turn the page to a new year, the innovation evolution continues. ICBA is leaning into it, bringing its ThinkTECH Accelerator program and innovation efforts in-house to provide community bankers with targeted solutions. Momentum around faster payments, real-time payments and FedNow.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Customer experience platform Narvar is partnering with real estate investment trust Simon to facilitate easier retail returns, according to a press release. The new service enables customers to drop off returns from about two dozen brands at 80,000 participating Simon locations, the release stated.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Core providers are rolling out digital bank toolkits that can launch a new offering within 90 days, and Jack Henry is the latest contender to join that race with BankAnywhere, a cloud-based system for community banks. Jack Henry is not the first core provider to roll out a “digital bank in a box” product for […].

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Illustration by The Laundry Room/Stocksy Customer data fuels efficient and effective marketing these days. 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.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 10, 2017

They foster innovation among all employees and across the ecosystem, not just within an innovation team or organization. Technologically, digitally reinvented businesses are fluent in the language and business impact of technological innovation. Step 2: Create pilots. Create pilots and prototypes.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Innovation is a priority for ICBA. That’s why we’ve spent the past three years educating community bankers on the why of innovation: why bankers should be thinking about innovation, why innovation is a top priority in a digital-first environment and why now is the time to act. By Charles Potts, ICBA.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Key Takeaways With more customers leveraging channels like online and mobile banking, community financial institutions are trying to solve how to maintain their hallmark community focus in an increasingly digital world. Technology can create efficiencies that allow them to reimagine customer interactions moving forward.

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BankInovation

MAY 26, 2020

Dear Community Member, Last year, we inaugurated the Bank Innovation Build conference to bring together industry participants to share best practices and ideas for exceptional banking innovation operations at financial institutions. Bank Innovation Build is the one event […].

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Perficient

JANUARY 26, 2021

At Perficient, we continually look for ways to champion and challenge our talented workforce with interesting projects for high-profile clients, encourage personal and professional growth through training and mentoring, and celebrate our people-oriented culture and the innovative ways they serve Perficient and the community.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

Everything feeds into the customer experience, and that ability to meet and exceed customer expectations is what distinguishes us as community bankers. Because it’s more than a saying; it’s a rallying cry for community bankers. We support our customers’ financial life stories. “All in.”

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Everyone Ive met at Mikes bank focuses on mattering to customer, community and one another. Brent is a finance genius who also leans in as a student of customer experience, API integration and AI possibilities. Nicolet Bankshares Mike Daniels credits his culture of shared success as a key to the creation of the banks $1.7

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 21, 2019

It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but for many community financial institutions, a spectrum of different customers and banking needs is something that they see every day. However, they’re probably seeing fewer of these customers walking into a physical branch.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Yet within the traditional FIs, it’s been important to push through the inertia that has tempered innovation. Drilling down a bit into those innovation efforts, he said, FinTechs and software companies, in general, are trying to become payment companies.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

Volvo Financial Services (VFS), the captive financing arm of Volvo Group, has announced that Payer will help it optimize payments and improve the customer experience for auto service and repairs, a press release says. I’m impressed by the innovation level at Volvo Financial Services and their financial services technology vision.

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