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Nashville, Tenn. (March 12, 2025) — The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) hosted its ThinkTECH Accelerator showcase during ICBA’s national convention, ICBA LIVE. This year’s event, held in Nashville, Tenn., brought together community bankers, industry leaders, and fintech visionaries to exchange ideas, explore trends, and experience the cutting-edge financial technology solutions reshaping and defining the banking landscape.
"ICBA’s ThinkTECH Accelerator is a powerful example of how we harness the collective knowledge of our community to drive meaningful innovation in community banking,” ICBA President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey said. “By bringing together fintechs and community bankers, we are turning ideas into real, actionable solutions that empower community banks to thrive in a rapidly evolving financial landscape."
The event highlighted fintech solutions representing a wide range of offerings, including vendor management, check fraud prevention, integration, digital banking for families, conversational AI, and commercial lending, supporting the continuous advancement of innovation in community banking.
Presenting companies included:
Coverbase Inc. – Automating third-party risk assessments to streamline compliance.
Fin3 Technologies Inc. – Enhancing fraud prevention through check fraud reduction solutions.
infintegration– Simplifying integration processes for financial institutions.
Incent.net – A youth-focused digital banking platform for customer retention.
Posh – AI-powered customer interaction tools for frontline banking staff.
Vine Financial – AI-driven commercial lending solutions for relationship-focused banking.
The showcase also recognized several cohort participants, with Posh receiving the Banker’s Choice Award, presented onstage during the general session and voted on by attendees as the most promising solution. Vine Financial was named the Most Valuable Participant Award winner for the most evolved offering based on program engagement and alignment with community bank business priorities. The All-Heart Award, celebrating an individual’s demonstrated passion, empathy, and commitment to making a positive impact on those around them, including community banks, was presented to infintegration founder and CEO Kent Milholland.
“Community banks are committed to innovation that helps support the needs of the communities they serve today and tomorrow,” ICBA Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer Charles Potts said. “Our latest ThinkTECH Accelerator cohort exemplifies this commitment to innovation, demonstrating our continued focus on cultivating solutions that strengthen community banking.”
As ICBA LIVE 2025 concludes this week, community banks will leave with new strategies, connections, and technologies to navigate the evolving financial landscape. ICBA remains dedicated to equipping community banks with the tools and resources they need to succeed and proudly joins its sponsors Fiserv, True North, Wipfli and NContracts to make this possible. Today's event marks another milestone in this important journey.
For more information on the ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator program, including how interested fintechs can apply for consideration for future innovation programming, please visit icba.org/accelerator.
About ICBA
The Independent Community Bankers of America® has one mission: to create and promote an environment where community banks flourish. We power the potential of the nation’s community banks through effective advocacy, education, and innovation.
As local and trusted sources of credit, America’s community banks leverage their relationship-based business model and innovative offerings to channel deposits into the neighborhoods they serve, creating jobs, fostering economic prosperity, and fueling their customers’ financial goals and dreams. For more information, visit ICBA’s website at icba.org.