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Tip o’ the 🎩to the winners of the 2024 GonzoBanker Awards. Check it out at gonzobanker.com/2024/12/the-20…

Great show last night at the HI-FI | HI-FI Annex with Jump: The Van Halen Experience.

Industry legend Hank Seale (Hapax #ai CEO) joining #Fintech #Hustle 2025 kickoff episode as “surprise” guest with guests Brendan Tansil (CEO, Candescent), Lee Farabaugh (President, Monarch/Core10), Stacey Bryant, and lucky me

Happy (almost) New Year & thanks for all our 2024 guests on what was a smart-fun-get-stuff-done tour for #Fintech #Hustle! Limited-edition, commemorative tour playbill prints will be in the mail!

Fintech Hustle episode drop. Host Sam Kilmer & co-host Stacey Bryant chat w/fintech leaders Lee Farabaugh (Monarch), Brendan Tansill (Candescent) & Hank Seale (Hapax) about community banks’ role in fintech , fraud prevention strategies & more. 🔗hubs.ly/Q032hPf80 #banking

Thanks MeridianLink for bringing me in this week to share some #levelup experiences from Cornerstone Advisors travels, #Fintech #Hustle podcast, What’s Going on in Banking research, and lessons learned from the GonzoBanker awards. Bonus: Console my sons will fight me over.

Ah yes, the pre-AOBA hike. 🌄 Bank Director #AOBA25

“We’re already in the next wave of M&A. Distribution advantages are critical to winning in #fintech .” - Tom Michaud, Keefe Bruyette Woods Great first sprint here at Bank Director #AOBA25 with a playbill full of rockstar fintechers, bankers, and investors. #grateful

TFW flying home late and the next day finding fun pics sent from friends #grateful GonzoBanker 🏴‍☠️ #fintech #hustle 🎩 Derik TaraS Charles E. Potts Al Dominick Nikhil Lakhanpal Margaret J. Hartigan

Great #Fintech #Hustle chat with Warburg Pincus LLC Todd Schell Marstone Margaret J. Hartigan Narmi Nikhil Lakhanpal Al Dominick off campus at Bank Director #aoba25

Good stuff, Jeff. I’d add to measure the relationship profitability of the clients activated and retained, not simply the profitability of the lead product. Also, be sure you have The Cars’ debut and Candy-O albums also at the ready. It’s not about one product or album.

Smarter data at smarter banks. Check out the Bank Director #AOBA25 data challenges poll from Jeffery Kendall Siya Vansia & Jody Guetter & the Terence Roche GonzoBanker on how to overcome the challenges —> bit.ly/smarterbankdata

⏳ Just ONE DAY to go! Join stevenwilliams and Ron Shevlin in our What’s Going On in Banking 2025 webinar tomorrow. Don’t miss out—register now 👉hubs.ly/Q03798Sm0 #wgoib2025 #wgoib #banks #fintechs #creditunions #bankingreport

⁦ALKAMI⁩ to acquire ⁦MANTL⁩ in a ⁦GonzoBanker⁩ #fintechdealtowatch Check it out with my 5-point gut take…. linkedin.com/posts/samkilme…

My first GonzoBanker article drop in a while….the So What? take on the ALKAMI / MANTL deal. Check it out and write-up’s on comparable deals at —>. gonzobanker.com/2025/03/alkami…

New GonzoBanker drop from stevenwilliams Banks Are Falling Short in Their ROI on Tech with 5-point plan to improve —> gonzobanker.com/2025/03/banks-…

Tip o’ the hat to AFT #aftspringsummit for the warm Miami welcome to lots of learning, shop talk, a pool deck Fintech Hustle podcast, and to kickoff a series on Fintech Content That Works. #thankful for this tribe.

What’s your Data IQ? My take on an excellent new ⁦Ron Shevlin⁩ ⁦Cornerstone Advisors⁩ report drop which — not coincidentally I suspect — also has some great data. Check it out. —> linkedin.com/posts/samkilme…

MUST READ free new report finding upwards of 60% of younger consumers prefer integrated investments in their checking account. Tip o’ the 🎩 to the financial institutions launching the capabilities. Check it out at — > bit.ly/3GCOp8j