JKHY

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.

A maker of banking software that helps thousands of community banks and credit unions run their daily operations, offering core processing systems like SilverLake and Symitar along with digital banking, payments, and fraud tools. It was founded in 1976 in Monett, Missouri, when two data-processing managers, Jack Henry and Jerry Hall, sketched their business plan on the back of a napkin after finding existing bank software too pricey for smaller institutions. Its Banno digital-banking platform is a hit with credit unions, a fitting twist since the company's name doesn't actually belong to one of its founders.