Tag: Community banking

The internet name many banks are afraid to use

After Farmers & Merchants State Bank switched its internet domain from dot-com to dot-bank, the Archbold, Ohio-based bank received a handful of calls from customers wondering where its website had gone. The $1 billion-asset bank also noted some assumed when a sentence ended “.bank.” in its promotional materials, the last period was part of the…
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November 11, 2017 0

Small banks can make it without a tech makeover

Bank futurists seem to coalesce around the same prediction: Technology will take over banking. So banks must get on board, they say, with data mining, artificial intelligence programs and other high-tech services — or they risk their demise. Few people take issue with the premise of this argument. Technology and online banking is, after all,…
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November 2, 2017 0