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Inside First National Bank of Omaha’s seven-person innovation lab

Bank Innovation

First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO), with $20 billion in assets and 5,000 employees, is building out its seven-person innovation group within the bank's namesake skyscraper in Omaha, Nebraska. The goal is to […].

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Banks Won’t Skimp on Technology Spend Despite Bleak Economic Predictions

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Despite predictions of a bleak economy and decreasing investment spending from businesses, banks will not be cutting down their technology spend in 2019, according to Kurt Spieler, Chief Investment Officer at First National Bank of Omaha.

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First Bankcard, Provident Bank Team For Commercial Payments

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First Bankcard , a division of First National Bank of Omaha , has formed a strategic partnership with Provident Bank , First Bankcard announced Wednesday (Jan. O’Flanagan, executive vice president of consumer banking at First National Bank of Omaha. “We

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Why AI Risk Tech And Banks Could Be A Match Made In Heaven

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A solution, he told PYMNTS four years ago , that had nothing to do with financial services or lending at all — they were actually studying hiring and figuring out ways to track employability over time with data. Our simple idea was that better technology and better data science could improve access to credit,” Girouard said.

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Credit Card Charge-Offs Reach Highest Rate Since 2009

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Moody’s Investors Service reported Thursday (June 8) that credit card charge-offs — debts that are so delinquent that lending institutions have basically given up on collecting them — are at their highest rate since 2009 , possibly due to loosening lending standards. Omaha-based First National Bank rounded out the top three at 4.21

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Buffett Hungry For Banking Stake In India?

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Is India proving a lure, once again, for the “Oracle of Omaha?” The company’s lending and payment products, as noted by The Verdict, have been “made live” across 30 partners, and more than 40 developers are in the midst of the integration process.

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Cabela’s Up On The Block And The Bids Are Coming In

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The Omaha World Herald is also reporting that since Nordstrom sold its credit card business to TD Bank last year, Cabela’s has been operating as the only U.S. retailer with such an operation still active.

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