southstatecorrespondent.com

Should Your Bank Adopt a Loan Hedging Program?

Keys to a Successful Loan Hedging Program

libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org

When the Household Pie Shrinks, Who Gets Their Slice?

Decoding the payment priorities of households

bankingblog.accenture.com

Guardians of Trust: Navigating Cybersecurity in Banking

Despite significant investments in cybersecurity, customers lack trust in the banking system’s ability to protect their data.

gonzobanker.com

Alkami to Acquire MANTL: So What?

Digital banking solution provider Alkami has announced it will acquire account opening solution provider MANTL for $400 million. Here’s my 5-point gut take on the deal...

globalbankingandfinance.com

10 Visible Trends for European CLOs in 2025

How Chief Legal Officers are expanding their influence, navigating regulatory shifts, and driving corporate strategy in an evolving European landscape—insights from ACC's latest survey.

finovate.com

Rocket to Acquire Redfin for $1.75 Billion

Rocket Companies is ready for takeoff with its latest acquisition today. The Michigan-based corporate group announced plans to purchase real estate brokerage website Redfin for $1.75 billion.

bankingjournal.aba.com

Fair servicing in focus

Navigating regulatory expectations and managing fair lending risks

bankingjournal.aba.com

Delivering professionalism and customer service through a screen

Effectively marketing use of interactive teller machines to a loyal customer base can be fun.

thefinancialbrand.com

Can AI Teach You Empathy?

Generative AI tools are becoming more adept at recognizing human emotions, offering banks a powerful way to rapidly upskill employees in essential customer service skill

thefinancialbrand.com

New Banking Innovation Freedom Comes at a Cost: Rethinking Risk Management

Proceed with realistic risk and compliance management practices as your institution moves into new products and services and you may turn the current confusion about Washington's mindset into opportunity.

thefinancialbrand.com

Reality Check: Is AI’s Promise to Deliver Competitive Advantage a Dangerous Mirage?

Banking executives must plan for an uncomfortable truth: Every bank has access to the same AI capabilities through their core and digital banking vendors. Banking already is an homogenized product. So what happens when AI tools make our banks' products even more commoditized and undifferentiated?

thefinancialbrand.com

Inside Banking’s New Digital Advertising Playbook

Bank marketers can no longer rely on traditional digital ad strategies. AI-powered automation, first-party data, and platform diversification are changing how banks reach and engage customers.

thefinancialbrand.com

As AI Targets Business Banking, Will Relationship Managers Become Obsolete or Superpowered?

Commercial banking stands at a crossroads where human expertise meets artificial intelligence. While relationship managers remain essential to client service, new technologies are reshaping how they work. It's a shift that could redefine how banks deliver their most valuable service: personalized, informed advice.

seattletimes.com

Wall Street warns of new AI risks from hallucinations, criminal use

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and other Wall Street firms are warning investors about new risks from the increasing use of artificial intelligence, including software hallucinations, employee-morale issues, use by cybercriminals and the impact of changing laws globally.

assetfinanceconnect.com

​Revolutionising auto lending with agentic AI

How agentic AI is enhancing efficiency and customer experience

bankingdive.com

5 lessons learned from Synapse’s collapse

Ledgering issues, bank partner and regulatory lapses and gross mismanagement led to a shortfall of up to $95 million between bank-held funds and amounts owed to fintech end users, a law firm found.

americanbanker.com

Bank M&A deals that failed in 2024

The six bank M&A deals that were terminated or rejected in 2024 had a combined target asset volume of more than $13 billion.

americanbanker.com

BankThink A centralized defense against payments fraud is essential, and urgent

The question is no longer whether the financial services industry needs a unified approach to combating instant payment fraud but who will take the lead to make it happen.

bankwatch.ca

Societe Generale, a major European bank, has recently leveraged Palantir’s technology in a significant deployment to enhance its anti-financial crime capabilities.

Palantir’s Anti-Financial Crime Solution at Societe Generale

fintechfutures.com

The things that we carry

I had a professor at university who said things like ‘glocal’ and ‘phygital’.

fintechfutures.com

Barclays set to pay out millions in customer compensation after IT outage

British bank Barclays has revealed it could pay out between £5 million and £7.5 million in customer compensation following a significant tech outage earlier this year.

fintechfutures.com

The strategic imperative of AI: A driver and measure of economic growth

Sometimes you have a conversation, and you can literally hear the penny drop.

fintechfutures.com

Life happens on a Tuesday

Every major corporate I speak to right now tells me, with a sigh, that they need to do ‘more with less’, like that’s some sort of huge departure from the way things have normally been.

mckinsey.com

Financial services: Dealmakers adapt to a shifting landscape

In 2024, deals mostly stayed within national borders. In 2025, banking, wealth and asset management, fintech, payments, and capital markets face challenges but also have opportunities.