The Hub
The Consortium HUB is a proprietary communication platform among community banks, Elizabeth Park Capital Management and Strandview Capital. The HUB is exclusively for banks invested into the Btech Consortium Fund and serves as the central information exchange platform for its members.
The goal of the HUB is to empower banks and their tech teams to:
- Leverage existing tech infrastructure more
- Navigate rapidly changing technologies and vendors
- Facilitate better strategic tech roadmap decisions
- Streamline evaluation of tech partners
- Participate in equity ownership
The HUB facilitates insights into emerging bank technology from the source and grants its members access to potential new co-investment opportunities and vendor relationships.
Featured benefits of the HUB include:
- HUB portal access
- Dedicated HUB Manager
- Early access to product demos
- Premium industry research and analysis
- Webinar and annual conference access
- Industry experts, contacts, and portfolio company interface
- Newsletters and direct exchange of ideas and information
Benefits to community banks
- Support bank IT team through an exchange of insight, research, contacts, and trends to navigate a rapidly changing technology landscape
- Empower community banks to compete with larger banks and be less reliant on core providers by joining a bank consortium
- Participate in bank technology advancements through both tech adoption and equity ownership
- Leverage Elizabeth Park’s deep experience with community banks and Strandview’s history of investing in financial technology
If you are a bank or tech company focused on advancing community bank technology, let's talk.