The Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) announced the opening of the new ICBA Center for Innovation in Atlanta, establishing a permanent home for its world-class community bank innovation initiatives.
“The ICBA Center for Innovation embodies our commitment to upholding our mission of creating and promoting an environment where community banks flourish,” ICBA President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey said. “This center will serve as a home for enhanced collaboration as community bankers, fintechs and industry experts work collectively to solve for our industry’s most pressing business challenges and opportunities. We are thrilled to open our doors to both our members and the broader community banking ecosystem that supports them.”
Located in the heart of midtown, the Atlanta headquarters offers a permanent home for ICBA’s Innovation team and programming, which includes its nationally acclaimed ThinkTECH Accelerator program, ThinkTECH Connect, Solutions Forums, webinars and other events designed to engage and advance community banking innovation. Located at 999 Peachtree Street NE, the new center’s official opening will be commemorated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception, sponsored by Fiserv, Ncontracts, TrueNorth and Wipfli.
“Community banks are vital to the health of our local financial system and economy — from understanding the nuances of small businesses to being truly vested in and bettering the communities that they serve,” said Noah Downer, senior vice president of economic development for Invest Atlanta. “We are pleased about the opening of ICBA’s Center for Innovation as we know that it will further strengthen community banking as well as the fintech industry at large in Atlanta.”
“We recognize that true innovation is not just with 10-week sprints or individual touchpoints with our team, so we wanted to create a dedicated space for our members to foster year-round ideation,” ICBA Executive Vice President and Chief…
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