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Fort Worth-based Fitech by Deluxe announced Friday its sponsorship of Bankers Helping Bankers, an exclusive online platform that promotes innovation among community bankers.
Bankers Helping Bankers is an ecosystem of services focused on creating informed and profitable banks by giving them data, information, and access to experts. Bankers Helping Bankers also provides a free online forum, along with online networking events, where community bankers can elevate their game.
As an endorsed partner of the Independent Bankers Association of Texas, Fitech by Deluxe exclusively serves financial institutions, and is focused on helping its partners overcome customer attrition, chiefly through the application of facts and data.
This priority aligns with the goals of Bankers Helping Bankers, that, through data intelligence, and a keen understanding of how a particular financial institution can capitalize on its biggest opportunities for growth, it can rewrite the story of what it means to be a community bank, according company officials.
“Fitech by Deluxe is a perfect partner for Bankers Helping Bankers,” says Dave Mayo, founder of Bankers Helping Bankers, in a statement. “For too long, technology purchases have not lived up to their billing. We are fighting for our very existence as community bankers, without support from industry elites like Fitech by Deluxe, so many community banks would be without the help of Bankers Helping Bankers. As bankers, we all owe a debt of gratitude to those firmly committed to saving community banks.”
First American by Deluxe, headquartered in Fort Worth, is a global payment technology company providing leading integrated payment solutions to more than 155,000 merchants throughout the Americas and Europe.
First American provides partner and merchant payment solutions that include a robust set of in-store, online and mobile payment solutions paired with the latest in payment security, across a wide range of verticals.
Deluxe, a Trusted Payments and Business Technology™ company, acquired First American Payment Systems and its subsidiaries, including Fitech, iATS Payments, and Certified Payments in June 2021.
“The accessibility of data and connectivity made possible by Bankers Helping Bankers underscores Fitech’s efforts to identify products that drive earnings and diversify sources of income to help insulate FIs from emerging fintechs,” says Rian Clinton, Director of Sales at Fitech by Deluxe.