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Financial Institutions | Gaining Perspective
Five Strategies for Small Business Success — Part 2: Fintech Partnerships, Accounting Integration, and Relationship Banking
In Part 1 of this series, we explored how financial institutions can enhance personalization and payment capabilities to better serve small business customers. But to fully ...
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Growing Revenue | Gaining Perspective
Five Strategies for Small Business Success — Part 1: Unlocking Growth through Personalization and Payments
Small businesses are essential to local economies, yet many financial institutions struggle to meet their evolving needs. With increasing competition from fintechs and third-party ...
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Gaining Perspective
The Critical Role of Small Business Loans in Cash Flow Management
For small businesses, maintaining healthy cash flow is often the difference between growth and stagnation. Many business owners face cash shortages due to delayed customer ...
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Gaining Perspective
Declining Cash Usage — Why Businesses Must Embrace Digital Payments
The U.S. is moving away from cash transactions. Cash usage in U.S. transactions has dropped from 32% in 2017 to 16% in 2023, with projections showing a further decline to 11% by ...
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Gaining Perspective
How we help your financial institution stay ahead of the competition
In this sixth and final session of Autobooks ACCELERATE, Derik Sutton discusses specific ways that Autobooks helps small businesses accept digital payments and manage cash flow, ...
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Gaining Perspective
Third-party activity inside your financial institution: Looking at the data
In the fifth session of Autobooks ACCELERATE, Derik Sutton touches on the small business market — specifically how business customers have turned to third-party competitors to ...
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Financial Institutions | Small Business Banking | Supporting Small Business | Gaining Perspective
The State of Small Business Banking: Overview and Take-Aways from the Arizent Report
Is your financial institution focused on supporting small businesses this year? If so, it may be helpful to better understand what small business owners are concerned about today ...
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Supporting Small Business | Gaining Perspective
How to build a winning small business bank, in four charts
80% of the small business banking pool is being targeted by fintech challengers, such as Square, Shopify, and Intuit. These companies have expanded by offering solutions aligned ...
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Transforming Digital | Gaining Perspective
Fintech 2.0: Why embedded finance has brought a seismic shift in banking, & how FIs can respond
For a growing wave of software providers, embedded finance has become the next logical step in capturing significantly more revenue from existing customers — while removing the FI ...
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Transforming Digital | Gaining Perspective
Embedded fintech: The new product future for financial institutions
Our very own Derik Sutton spoke with Zack Miller of Tearsheet to discuss the topic of embedded fintech. What is it, and what are the benefits for financial institutions?
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Growing Revenue | Supporting Small Business | Gaining Perspective
How FIs Can Beat Non-Bank Fintechs For Business Deposits
Featured in Financial Brand, this blog post summarizes the challenges financial institutions face when it comes to competing against non-bank providers and defines a new path ...
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Transforming Digital | Growing Revenue | Gaining Perspective
Moment of Need to Resolution
Derik talks with Lee Wetherington about his latest article that defines the new "Killer Digital KPI" - Moment of Need to Resolution.