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Deposit growth engine for community banks

Your deposits are
leaking. We stop it.

Community banks lose 3 applications for every account opened, and half of what does open never funds. Linker is the only turnkey platform built to grow funded, sticky core deposits. Live in weeks.

Works with your existing core.
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72%
of community bank CEOs
name core deposit growth their #1 concern
ABA, March 2026
3
digital applications lost
for every account successfully opened
Cornerstone Advisors, 2026
Weeks
average Linker time-to-live
vs. multi-year digital transformations
Across live Linker deployments
The problem

An account opened is not a deposit. Stop pretending it is.

Funded. Retained. Grown. Three separate events, and most digital programs quietly fail at two of them while celebrating the first. That gap is where your deposit base bleeds out every quarter.

 
If your deposit program measures accounts opened and calls it growth, you're celebrating the start line and losing the race.
Why applicants drop off
01Lengthy processes
Drop-off exceeds 50% when digital onboarding takes more than 3–5 minutes or spans 4+ pages.
MX
02Cumbersome verifications
Out-of-wallet questions, documentary ID uploads, and manual micro-deposit funding drive major friction.
03Poor UX & transparency
Unclear progress indicators and device-switching push applicants to abandon, and switch to fintechs.
The Financial Brand
04Strict fraud controls
Traditional security systems reject up to 1 in 4 good applicants, wasting marketing dollars.
eMarketer
The solution

The deposit-growth layer that completes your core.

Your core keeps the bank running. Linker plugs in and does the growth work: one contract, every vendor, real-time integration. Built for community banks under $2B and engineered to turn applications into funded, retained deposits. Live in weeks.

We reduce customer acquisition cost

Smarter marketing spend and full-funnel attribution, lower cost per funded account, not just per click.

Grow deposits

Optimize acquisition, funding, and 90-day retention as one loop, not three siloed metrics.

Operational efficiency

Running with your team, using your data. One platform replaces the stack of point solutions creating manual work and drop-off.

See it against your book

See the same playbook run against your deposit base.

Modular platform

One platform. Adopted your way.

Start with one module. Expand at your pace. Every module is integrated in real time to your core, no batch files, no fragmentation.

01

Digital Account Opening

Business & consumer onboarding built to reduce drop-offs and fund faster, with real-time core integration.

02

Digital Banking

Modern retail and business banking layered over your existing core. No rip-and-replace.

03

Digital Brand Launch

Spin up a digital-first affinity brand in one quarter, at a fraction of the cost of a new branch.

04

Customer Intelligence

Real-time data, reporting, and AI insights across every account, product, and channel.

Start with one. Expand at your pace.

Case study: Vault.Bank (Bank of Brodhead)

5× deposits in 2025 compared to 2024.

Vault.Bank, the digital brand of Bank of Brodhead, a $300M Wisconsin community bank, grew funded deposits 5× year over year. Powered by Linker Finance: digital onboarding, built-in fraud checks, and a full-funnel growth playbook.

deposits 2025 vs 2024
40%
CAC reduction
90%
monthly retention
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Illustration of Vault.Bank, a community bank growing deposits 5× with Linker Finance.
Why Linker

The unfair advantage community banks were promised, and never got.

Live in weeks

Not a 10-18 months digital transformation.

Real-time core integration

Works with your existing core.

One contract, all vendors

Turnkey. No stitching a stack together.

Every quarter you wait, deposits walk out

Grow deposits.
Or keep losing them.

30 minutes with our team. Walk out with a clear path to fund, retain and grow core deposits, starting this quarter, not next year.

Premium Partners on the Fiserv AppMarket.
30 minutes. No slides. A clear path to fund and retain deposits, starting in weeks.