ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator Showcase Highlights Community-Bank Enabling Technologies of the Future

Washington, D.C. (July 24, 2026) -The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) yesterday hosted its ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator Showcase at the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado (GSBC), spotlighting technology solutions for community banks developed during the eleventh Accelerator program (AP11). The showcase capped a 10-week collaborative program that connects bank technology solutions with community bankers and industry leaders to advance practical innovation for the nation's community banks.

"The ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator Showcase brings together the innovators building solutions for real-world banking challenges and the community bankers who can help refine and apply them," said ICBA Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer Wayne Miller. "By pairing real-world bank input with emerging technology, the program helps ensure innovation is purpose-built to help community banks compete, better serve their customers and communities, and thrive."

AP11 featured solutions addressing key community bank priorities, including fraud mitigation, artificial intelligence, data analytics, customer experience and payments.

During the showcase, special honors were presented to two standout companies. VaultRight was named the program's Most Valuable Participant, recognizing its exceptional engagement throughout the program and strong alignment with community bank priorities. Payman AI earned the Banker's Choice Award, selected by participating community bankers as the cohort's most promising solution for its innovative approach to agentic banking.

The AP11 bank-enabling technology providers were:

• Clox AI detects AI-generated and manipulated documents while automating workflow to identify tampering, forgery, and deepfakes.

• FinGoal offers an insights platform that enriches transaction data to build user profiles and deliver personalized, transaction-based calls to action.

• Payman AI embeds consumer, small business, and commercial AI agents directly into digital banking to safely initiate payments and execute workflows with policy controls, approvals, and audit trails.

• Swaystack offers a gamified onboarding platform that helps activate new accounts by driving funding, direct deposit, bill pay adoption, and more to win primary relationship status.

• VaultRight modernizes branch operations with a secure, mobile- and web-based platform that replaces paper processes and strengthens audit readiness.

• Warrant offers an AI-powered marketing compliance and digital asset management system that automates regulatory checks, approval flows, and provides full audit trails.

"GSBC is proud to help bring this showcase experience to future community bank leaders," said Michael Stevens, GSBC president and CEO. "Seeing these technologies in action gives our students a firsthand look at tools designed for the realities of community banking-and gives innovators direct perspective from the bankers who will put those tools to work."

For more information about the ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator program, or to apply or nominate a bank technology solution for future cohorts, visit https://www.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.

About Graduate School of Banking at Colorado (GSBC)

The Graduate School of Banking at Colorado is America's Premier Community Banking School, providing banking professionals with programming to prepare the next generation of community bank leaders for success. Our programs include the Annual School Session, and the one-of-a-kind Executive Development Institute, a program designed to address succession issues by developing the next generation of executives at community banks. For more information, visit www.gsbcolorado.org.