Clear Capital is a Reno, Nev.-based real estate valuation and analytics technology company that has served mortgage lenders since 2001. BankBeat spoke to Kenon Chen, executive vice president of corporate strategy, about what valuation analytics look like in a changing marketplace. [Continue]
Engage People is a fintech startup providing rewards programs that link together customers, small businesses and banks. Len Covello, chief technology officer of the global technology provider, explains how reaching people with technology changes during and after the events currently shaking the world. [Continue]
Community banks by definition are traditionally bound by geography that cloud banking deems irrelevant. Now foreign tech firms are reaching into the United States and jumping into the increasingly competitive field of all-things-cloud. [Continue]
Practifi is a Chicago startup developing business management tools for financial institutions and wealth advisors. Adrian Johnstone and Glenn Elliott, Practifi’s co-founders, explain how customer relationship management tools might be applied to functions beyond the advisory realm. [Continue]
Neocova is a St. Louis-based fintech startup that has dropped in to the core provider market for community banks. BankBeat spoke with its founder and CEO, Sultan Meghji, about how a bank’s core can be improved. [Continue]
Mercantile Bank of Michigan, Grand Rapids, has its eyes on long term profitability, which has not diminished short term gains. [Continue]
After two acquisitions, First Midwest Bank, Chicago, closed the third quarter having generated a company record net income of $54.5 million. [Continue]
With export markets in flux and farm commodity prices slumping, some ag producers are eager to jump into the newest opportunity: Industrial hemp. Bankers who have a solid understanding of compliance risk are approaching the financing of hemp production cautiously. But what hemp introduces in addition to regulatory challenges is credit risk. [Continue]
Computer Service Professionals, Inc., Jefferson City, Mo., has been serving up tech solutions to community banks since 1988. We talked with Kurt Luebbering, CSPI’s director of operations, about longevity in the rapidly changing tech world. [Continue]
Community bankers suddenly have a lot of tech to choose from when it comes to lending platforms. We talked to Snehal Fulzele, senior vice president and general manager for Cloud Lending, a Q2 company based in Austin, Texas, about what makes its digital lending platform a fit for community banks, and got his take on cybersecurity challenges. [Continue]