FinTech Automation (FTA), renowned for its innovative solutions as an Infrastructure as-a-Service (IaaS) financial technology company and Stearns Bank N. A., a prominent community bank leader and known for its innovation and progressive approach to financial services, announces a partnership aimed to redefine the landscape of banking services. The partnership leverages FinTech Automation’s state-of-the-art technology infrastructure to empower Stearns Bank to provide seamless, efficient, and secure banking services, with a focus on enhancing bank sponsorship and correspondence banking...

Macatawa Bank Corp. and Macatawa Bank announced Ronald L. Haan will retire Nov. 1 after more than 18 years of leadership and service at Macatawa. The board has appointed Jon Swets as president and CEO and Bryan Barker as chief financial officer effective at that time. Swets, who joined Macatawa Bank in 2002 to serve as senior vice president and chief financial officer, brings more than two decades of banking and leadership experience with Macatawa...

Fintech innovator Qube Money introduces its unique budgeting app, helping people to take control of their finances

TZP Growth Equity, a fund within the broader TZP Group (“TZP”), a multi-strategy private equity firm, announced its investment in Finzly, Inc. (“Finzly” or the “Company”), a provider of modular banking and payments technology infrastructure for financial institutions. Founded by Booshan Rengachari in 2012 and headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Finzly empowers banks, fintechs, and businesses to rapidly adapt to changing market demands. Finzly’s modern, cloud-based, and open API operating system serves as a parallel platform...

Deposit Optimizer Essentials delivers best-in-class analytics more cost-efficiently than hiring a large data-analysis team.

Ahead of next month’s COP28 summit, Omdia’s new report, ‘Market Landscape: State of Sustainability in Retail Banking‘, has found the vast majority of banks do not have a fully-functional sustainability strategy; many are still analyzing, despite sustainability being a matter of strategic concern for several decades. The increasing regulation around net zero presages a general movement from guidelines toward formal legislation around sustainability targets and standards. This presents banks with a significant task to respond accordingly within...