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Six Payment Trends Shaping Community Bank Priorities in 2024
To ease the regulatory and economic forces pressuring margins and embrace new payments opportunities, community banks should focus on six key trends this year to drive their payments plans and...
Artificial Intelligence: Hype vs. Reality and What it Means for Community Banks
To help separate fact from fiction, let’s start with a working definition of AI and related terms, before discussing a few notable use cases for community banks.
Regulatory Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence and What They Mean for Community Banks
Federal banking regulators so far have approached regulating the use of artificial intelligence through the lens of existing regulation. But based on various regulatory announcements, there are...
Why Shifts in Payments Behavior Are Driving Community Bank Innovation
We have been experiencing an acceleration in innovation since the start of the pandemic. MuleSoft reported that in 2022, 72 percent of customer interactions occurred over digital channels proof...
Unlocking Potential: Community Banker University is now ICBA Education
As ICBA and our industry continues to differentiate and evolve, we are excited to announce the next stage of our journey as we rebrand from Community Banker University to ICBA Education.
ICBA’s Community Bank Mission Critical to 2023 Successes
At a time when consequential failures at large, risky banks led to major media outlets erroneously directing blame to Main Street community banks, ICBA was there defending and promoting the...
ICBA Center for Innovation: The Next Chapter in Fostering Community Bank-Fintech Partnerships
It’s an exciting time for ICBA Innovation, culminating in the long-awaited opening of ICBA’s Center for Innovation—an initiative more than a year in the making with the promise to help drive...
Community Banks are Fighting Check Fraud on the Front Lines
Banks and their customers continue to be challenged by a rise in fraud and scams across payment types. Most significantly, check fraud has emerged over the past several years as a leading concern.