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Choice Financial partners with Douugh

Choice Financial partners with Douugh

Community bank offers deposit facility and seed capital to new financial management app
Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. By Chris Voss with Tal Raz. Harper Business. 275 pp.

Negotiations begin with “No”

Book Review: FBI hostage negotiator takes on the business deal
To serve today's small business, community banks must offer strong digital services. But offering these products doesn't mean a bank has to reinvent the wheel.

Digital currency—and not talking crypto

Community banks that can’t offer current technology miss opportunities
Sell With A Story: How To Capture Attention, Build Trust, And Close The Sale. By Paul Smith. Amacom. 290 pp.

How to sell with a story

Book Review: A good story can help you close more sales
Technology from Mirador enables banks to compete online with the likes of Kabbage, OnDeck, and others—and with an advantage nonbank fintech lenders lack.

Bank web lending can be faster and cheaper

Tompkins Financial marries online business lending with home-grown credit analysis
SmartBiz CEO Evan Singer talks about why and how his fintech firm works with banks in the SBA 7(a) loan market.

SBA enabler on sprouting more loans

Retail marketplace lending platform morphed into business credit mechanism
What to do while awaiting reg relief

What to do while awaiting reg relief

Building an enterprise risk management program designed for community banking can cut costs and regulatory risks
6 strategies to help you get the most out of fintech partnerships.

Collaboration not competition

Fintechs shift from “We will rock you” to “We need you”
You can buy ten of these BerkShare notes, featuring Robyn Van En, a local ag movement pioneer, for $95—a built-in disount good at Berkshires-area sellers. This article originally appeared in "Idea Exchange" in Banking Exchange magazine. We'd like to hear about new ideas that your bank is trying. Email scocheo@sbpub.com.

Spare a “BerkShare”?

Western Mass local currency links banks to sustainable economy movement
How is your bank becoming agile? Share your thoughts and strategies in the comment section at the conclusion of this roundup of bankers and experts.

Agile Banking: How you remain relevant

Tech merges with strategy for quick, decisive, cross-organizational action
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