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Stride Credit Union: conversational banking innovation elevates member experience on Central 1’s Community

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Central 1’s Community platform serves as an innovative hub to foster collaboration among credit unions, fintechs and other financial institutions. Each month, we deploy new digital solutions while facilitating the development and implementation of custom features. Stride Credit Union recently deployed their engagement platform with Unblu, an award-winning provider of conversational banking solutions leveraging the Community platform. With over 19,000...

Central 1 partners with Flinks to introduce open banking functionality to its credit union members and financial institution clients

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Vancouver, B.C./Toronto, On, January 24, 2024 – Central 1 — a leading financial services provider to Canada’s credit unions and financial institutions — is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Flinks, Canada’s leader in the open, consent-based exchange of financial data. Through this partnership, Central 1 is taking an important step in enabling open banking opportunities and optionality in...

DUCA Credit Union on building a profit-sharing rewards program via Central 1’s innovation platform, Forge Community

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Central 1 welcomed several new fintechs and credit unions this year to Forge Community, an innovation hub intended to accelerate the pace of innovation and value-add experiences for credit union members. This month, we announced the latest deployments from Forge Community, including news about DUCA Credit Union, who leveraged the ecosystem to introduce a new profit-sharing rewards program for their 92,000...

Fintechs and credit unions launch new offerings from Central 1’s innovation platform

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DUCA, First West and thirdstream lead 2023 deployments from Forge Community VANCOUVER, B.C., June 12, 2023 – Central 1 today announced the latest deployments from its innovation hub, Forge Community. DUCA, a credit union participant that joined the collaborative platform last year, launched a new profit-share rewards program for their more than 92,000 members. Credit union First West, in partnership...

How First Nations Bank is Facilitating Indigenous Economic Self-Sufficiency

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One of the advantages of banking with a community-focused financial institution is a personalized approach that is deeply rooted in the economic well-being of the individual customers and the communities it serves. Today we are pleased to profile one of our valued Central 1 members who is a leader in this personalized approach to banking and has been making an...

Driving Innovation with Forge Community

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Since announcing Forge 2.0 in June, Central 1 is taking significant steps towards building out Forge Community – the ecosystem where clients can access and implement customized plugins provided by their peers, fintechs and innovators. What this means for financial institutions is greater cost advantage and simplified flexibility in choice of providers – significant value-adds for a competitive edge. Since joining Central 1 in...

Central 1 Gains Momentum with Forge 2.0 Adoption

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VANCOUVER, B.C., December 17, 2021 – Central 1 continues to build momentum with its Forge 2.0 digital banking solution, including recent launches with BC-based Coastal Community Credit Union and Ontario’s Kindred Credit Union. These implementations now bring Forge 2.0 to 117 committed clients as of today.  “The importance of delivering modern and seamless digital banking experiences to Canadians is greater than ever, and...

Central 1 Unveils Latest Digital Banking Experience on Forge Digital Banking Platform with First West Credit Union  

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VANCOUVER, BC, November 18, 2021 – Central 1 is pleased to announce the successful launch of the latest versions of Online Banking, Mobile App and Small Business on the Forge Digital Banking Platform. Achieved with First West Credit Union across all of its regional brands: Envision Financial, Valley First, Island Savings and Enderby & District Financial, these milestones further position the platform as a leading digital solution for financial...

Beyond Loans: How Financial Institutions should be supporting small businesses

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I think we can all agree that 2020 has not gone according to plan – with the impacts of COVID-19 hitting everyone incredibly hard on a global scale, small businesses have had an uphill battle in facing incredible financial pressures and challenges to their business strategies. Financial institutions have been stepping up to bat for their business members and customers,...

Digital Transformation can meet the specialized needs of Gig Workers

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Digital transformation has brought a lot of change to how industries conduct business and planning. This is no different for financial services, as digital banking expectations continue to develop and expand more quickly, especially through 2020 with COVID-19. Through fast-paced change, it can be easier to look to the unknown landscapes rather than those we are most familiar with, for example, the...