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Reflection and Ruminations
Reflection and Ruminations The oldest Millennials are pushing 40 and are well established in the financial services landscape, but with Gen Z—the elders of whom are college-aged—we have a digital...
Navigating a New Decade of Payments
Navigating a New Decade of Payments From concerns about Libra to the development of the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments settlement service, policymakers are poised for action on behalf...
Into the weeds on the QM patch
Into the weeds on the QM patch The debate over housing-finance reform often ends up deep in the weeds, but the esoteric details are often of the utmost importance to community banks. Recent...
Digital Wallets: An Overview
Digital Wallets: An Overview As customer expectations continue to shift, digital wallets—or mobile wallets as they are sometimes called—continue to grow in popularity as a preferred payment option....
Digital-First: Meeting Customers Where They Are
Digital-First: Meeting Customers Where They Are When it comes to financial services, almost 63 percent of the U.S. population uses digital banking. So, as a community bank, if you are not...
Accelerator: Driving Data Analytics and Reducing Fraud
Accelerator: Driving Data Analytics and Reducing Fraud Community banks with fewer resources and less money to invest in technology than their larger counterparts, may view using data analytics as...
Unexpected Benefits of ICBA’s ThinkTECH Accelerator
Unexpected Benefits of ICBA’s ThinkTECH Accelerator ICBA's Kevin Tweddle discusses unexpected benefits of ICBA's ThinkTECH Accelerator program with community bankers John Buhrmaster of First...
ThinkTECH Accelerator: Purposeful Development
ThinkTECH Accelerator: Purposeful Development As we welcomed in the new decade, ICBA signaled its ongoing commitment to community banking innovation with the launch of our second ICBA ThinkTECH...
Capitalizing on Change in 2020
One thing is for certain – and that is change. With the advent of new technologies and solutions, education will be the indispensable complement to ensure community banks can take advantage of the...
New Driver of Payments Growth: Fed Study Shows Debit Transactions As Opportunity for Community Banks
New Driver of Payments Growth: Fed Study Shows Debit Transactions As Opportunity for Community Banks The latest iteration of the Fed’s triennial study showed that in 2018, noncash payments¹...
Resolve to Take Grassroots Action in 2020
Resolve to Take Grassroots Action in 2020 Your perspective as a community-based, taxpaying business is exceptionally helpful to the people who write and enforce the regulations you (and credit...
Finding 65 million consumers: Using alternative data to acquire new customers
Finding 65 million consumers: Using alternative data to acquire new customers Relationship banking is nothing new to community banks. Novel underwriting techniques and recent regulatory guidance...
Building ICBA’s Innovation Team
Building ICBA’s Innovation Team As an industry, we’re at a pivotal stage where the pace of change increases daily and digital transformation rocks our reality. But amidst everything, community...
ThinkTECH Accelerator: Addressing Lending & Technology Pain Points
ThinkTECH Accelerator: Addressing Lending & Technology Pain Points Community banks continue looking for ways to grow loan volume and improve the customer experience in the process. In today’s...
Accelerator: Supporting Customer Acquisition and Retention
Accelerator: Supporting Customer Acquisition and Retention In today’s economy, community bankers are looking more and more to their digital channels for new customer opportunities, especially those...
Accelerator Addresses Financial Well-Being
Accelerator Addresses Financial Well-Being Let’s face it. We’re not living in our parents’ financial services world. In today’s immediate gratification society, our concern lies more with what’s...
ICBA LIVE ThinkTECH Showcase: Know Before You Go
ICBA LIVE ThinkTECH Showcase: Know Before You Go What differentiates ThinkTECH Accelerator participants from the fintech world at large? The difference lies in the input, guidance and insights...
Community Banks Remain Vigilant Amid COVID-19 Cyber Threats
Community Banks Remain Vigilant Amid COVID-19 Cyber Threats As more and more consumers are moving to online banking during the coronavirus pandemic, some for the first time ever, criminals are...
Standing Together For Our Communities
Standing Together For Our Communities As the coronavirus emergency continues, ICBA has been working around the clock and through the weekend to ensure critical reforms and resources are available...
Congress Passes Stimulus with Key Community Bank Provisions
Congress Passes Stimulus with Key Community Bank Provisions While you have stood strong for your customers and communities, ICBA has been standing strong in Washington to shape and advance this...