southstatecorrespondent.com

Use This 5S Framework for Solving Strategic Challenges in Banking – Part I

Banks face a big set of challenges ahead. To gain a competitive advantage, having an effective and efficient systematic approach that is repeatable and can be part of your bank’s culture would be helpful. In this article, we provide a five-step AI-enabled process that will help your bank with solving strategic challenges.

libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org

Comparing Apples to Apples: “Synthetic Real‑Time” Estimates of R‑Star

Creating Synthetic Real‑Time Estimates of R- Star

globalbankingandfinance.com

Workforce is a critical stakeholder in distressed situations: guidance for middle-market companies

The workforce is not merely an operational asset but a key stakeholder group.

finovate.com

Socure Unveils AI Assistant for Global Watchlist Screening

The new AI Copilot will help reduce the number of false positives for Socure’s Global Watchlist Screening and Monitoring solution.

bankingjournal.aba.com

The checking account wake-up call

Understanding the changing reality of just what is a checking account anymore, and that different customers are trying to solve different problems.

bankingjournal.aba.com

Three culture shifts for banks to get more from customer relationship management

Even the most advanced solution is useless if employees do not know how to use it effectively or waste time on manual processes

thefinancialbrand.com

7 Fintech and Payments Trends That Will Reshape Retail Banking in 2025

A new report offers a comprehensive look at key payments concepts that will impact retail banks, both in the near-term and longer. Here are seven that we think should be top of mind for payments leaders at U.S. institutions.

thefinancialbrand.com

‘It Won’t Happen to Us:’ The Dangerous Mindset Minimizing Crisis Preparation

Most financial companies only start thinking about crisis management when they’re already in the middle of one, making the impact far worse than it needs to be. How can companies ensure they’re ready and avoid critical mistakes that could cost them their reputation?

thefinancialbrand.com

Why Thoughtfully Crafted Content Matters During Core Conversions

Core conversions affect the systems that customers rely on daily. Creativity and communication are at the heart of success when bank resources and customer satisfaction can be somewhat strained.

thefinancialbrand.com

Bad Attitudes Credit Unions and Community Banks Should Ditch in 2025

Smaller financial institutions are facing a reckoning as customers — particularly younger ones — contemplate breaking up with "bad banking

thefinancialbrand.com

Don’t Get Frankenbanked: When a Financial Institution’s Tech Stack Goes Rogue

Many banks and credit unions have inadvertently created "Frankenbanked" systems—technological monstrosities assembled from well-intentioned but poorly integrated digital solutions.

thefinancialbrand.com

Yes, Your ATMs Can Drive Competitive Advantage

ATMs are evolving from simple cash dispensers into sophisticated bridges between the physical and digital banking worlds, offering everything from contactless transactions to video banking services.

thefinancialbrand.com

Capital One Deploys Agentic AI to Support Stressed Auto Dealers (and Finance More Cars)

Auto dealers, pressed by tight industry economics, needed tools to maximize successful sales leads without adding head count. Enter Capital One, home of Auto Navigator, and its new agentic AI 'Chat Concierge' to close the deals.

americanbanker.com

Modern fraud prevention with cloud-based AI-accelerated workflows

Adapting to fraud's ever-changing threats

cnbc.com

The rampant growth of private credit may have an unlikely beneficiary: banks

A relatively new and growing form of lending in Europe is enabling banks to reduce costs, get around provisioning requirements and potentially boost returns by classifying certain debts as lower risk than they otherwise would.

cnbc.com

Citigroup mistakenly credited a customer account with $81 trillion

Citigroup mistakenly credited a customer’s account with $81 trillion last year when it meant to send just $280.

bankwatch.ca

How AI is transforming strategy development – McKinsey

Artificial intelligence and generative AI have the potential to transform how strategists work by strengthening and accelerating activities such as analysis and insight generation while mitigating challenges posed by human biases and the social side of strategy.

bankwatch.ca

Navigating Cybersecurity and AI

Starting to think abut AI in context of Cybersecurity.

thehindubusinessline.com

Poonawalla Fincorp launches digital personal loan for salaried professionals

The product, PL Prime Digital 24x7, is accessible via Poonawalla Fincorp’s mobile app, website, and authorised partners

fintechfutures.com

White paper: A hybrid multi-cloud strategy for deploying AI models

Financial services firms are increasingly deploying a combination of third-party and proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to drive enhanced service and operational efficiency. However, these institutions face a number of challenges around scalability, security and compliance in model training, deployment and inference. This free white paper explores how a hybrid multi-cloud strategy, leveraging both public and private cloud environments, can address these challenges while optimizing data control, flexibility and cost-effectiveness.

bankautomationnews.com

FIs can’t sleep on AI strategy, Morgan Stanley’s Picariello says

All financial institutions need an AI strategy in place in 2025 to keep pace with evolving use cases

bankautomationnews.com

Client experience drives ROI for AI assistants, says Citizens’ Wyper

Financial institutions can generate gains from AI-driven assistants if client demands are prioritized.

independentbanker.org

Renovation Lending: The Solution to a Tough Mortgage Market?

With many prospective and first-time homebuyers buying fixer-uppers, community banks can tap into a new market to supplement their mortgage and construction portfolios.

independentbanker.org

How to Fight AI-Boosted Spear Phishing Fraud

Artificial intelligence has streamlined spear phishing, a kind of cyberattack involving emails, video calls or other forms of communication facilitated by fraudsters posing as a trusted colleague, boss or organization. Here’s how your community bank can hit back.