Make Gen Z Your Plan A

Five Gen Z adults sitting together smiling

By Dave Pond During my college years, I couldn’t walk past the university bookstore without being surrounded by men and women offering free t-shirts — all I had to do was apply for a new credit card. That’s no longer legal, and it’s a good thing. See, thanks to those offers, I regularly flirted with…

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Squirrels? Aww, nuts!

Squirrel on road next to white SUV

By Dave Pond A few weeks ago, my 16-year-old daughter, Mallory — with her sights firmly focused on a successful driver’s license road test at our local DMV — wanted to practice parallel parking in my trusty ol’ Ford Explorer. (After all, it was smaller than her mom’s minivan.)  However, when they cranked it up, the…

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BaZing’s Got My Back

Car trouble - couple looking under the hood

By Clay Crenshaw Having worked with financial institutions over the last few decades on their retail checking account strategies, I find myself so focused on things like fee income, analytics, and net interest margins that I forget how relevant and impactful our products can be.  If you’ll indulge me, I’d like to share a quick…

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