Wed.May 15, 2024

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Why Diversification Fails at Banks

South State Correspondent

Bankers have been taught to diversify their loan portfolio to reduce idiosyncratic (individual borrower) risk and to stabilize earnings. The thinking is that diversification-induced lending leads to banking resiliency. We believe that while lending diversification leads banks to lend more in normal times (especially for banks over $50B in assets) and does benefit the general economy, community banks should be careful in how and where they choose to diversify.

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Fed, OCC to hold meeting on Capital One-Discover deal

Payments Dive

Concerns about the $35B merger proposal, which has already faced opposition, are likely to surface again at the July public meeting.

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Why Diversification Fails at Banks

South State Correspondent

Bankers have been taught to diversify their loan portfolio to reduce idiosyncratic (individual borrower) risk and to stabilize earnings. The thinking is that diversification-induced lending leads to banking resiliency. We believe that while lending diversification leads banks to lend more in normal times (especially for banks over $50B in assets) and does benefit the general economy, community banks should be careful in how and where they choose to diversify.

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Shift4 to buy rival POS firm Revel for $250M

Payments Dive

The payments processing company plans to incorporate Revel’s point-of-sale capabilities into its SkyTab POS system, Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacson said.

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Fall In Love With the Month-End Close

It's the time of year to give our close process some TLC. Join us in this one hour webinar where we discuss how to adopt leading practices and infuse technology into the month-end close process to improve our experience and increase our productivity during month-end and quarter-end close. Learning Objectives: This course's objective is to understand how the month-end close can be improved with automation and adoption of leading practices.

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Unlocking the financial data ‘treasure trove’

BankInovation

AI and generative AI applications continue to dominate conversations within the financial services industry, but implementing generative AI is near impossible if bank data isn’t standardized and accessible. What makes good data?

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Visa blurs line between debit, credit cards in new 'flexible credential'

American Banker

As part of a sweeping digital enhancement of its consumer payment cards, Visa will enable banks to issue an account as a credit, debit, virtual or Pay in 4 installment loan, based on the user's preference at the time of purchase.

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Leveraging language models for prudential supervision

BankUnderground

Adam Muhtar and Dragos Gorduza Imagine a world where machines can assist humans in navigating across complex financial rules. What was once far-fetched is rapidly becoming reality, particularly with the emergence of a class of deep learning models based on the Transformer architecture ( Vaswani et al (2017) ), representing a whole new paradigm to language modelling in recent times.

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Most Influential Women in Fintech 2024

American Banker

The publication selected 20 women who have shown strong leadership and communication skills.

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Transactions: KeyBank, Qolo launch virtual account management service

BankInovation

KeyBank launched its virtual account management solution, Key Virtual Account Management, powered by payments platform Qolo, on May 7.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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American Express expands in U.K., Western Union returns to Cuba

American Banker

Amex is working with Worldpay to reach businesses in the U.K., Western Union has resumed remittances to Cuba after shutting down that corridor in 2020, and more.

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Four ways DORA compliance is an opportunity for financial services organizations to accelerate digital transformation

Cisco

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) offers financial service institutions the chance to enhance operational resilience and competitive advantage through compliance, with Cisco providing a comprehensive suite of solutions to support FSIs in meeting these new regulatory requirements.

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Banking-as-a-service middleware is going 'direct.' What does that mean?

American Banker

Companies such as Synctera, Treasury Prime and Unit are diversifying their services or enabling more direct contracts between banks and fintechs to survive in an evolving regulatory environment.

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Standard Chartered completes Euro-denominated payments on Partior network

The Paypers

Standard Chartered has completed the Euro-denominated cross-border transactions between Hong Kong and Singapore, on the Partior network.

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The Role of Automation in Commercial Lending

Automation is changing the game for commercial lenders, offering a clear path to competitive advantage in 2025. Rising costs, outdated workflows, and manual data entry slow growth and impact borrower satisfaction. Automation addresses these challenges, reducing costs, speeding up loan cycles, improving accuracy, and elevating borrower experiences. With market uncertainty easing, now is the time to act—waiting until loan volumes rebound leaves lenders unprepared and struggling to compete.

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VantageScore debuts model that can consider bank account data

American Banker

The VantageScore 4plus product pulls in standard credit file information while also analyzing bank account balance and other transactional data to create an adjusted score

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Deutsche Bank enters asset tokenisation project

The Paypers

Germany-based financial institution Deutsche Bank has announced that it entered an asset tokenisation project by collaborating with Singapore’s Central Bank.

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Innovators of the Year 2024

American Banker

These 20 bankers and fintech executives are helping banks go digital in new ways.

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Skyro taps ADVANCE.AI to improve financial access for Filipinos

The Paypers

Philippines-based fintech Skyro has partnered with identity verification provider ADVANCE.AI to augment onboarding processes for Filipinos accessing financial services.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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The Lummis-Gillibrand stablecoin bill is misguided and dangerous

American Banker

The bill, which would allow uninsured trust companies to issue stablecoins, represents a perilous departure from historically sound financial regulatory policies, and would open the door to potentially catastrophic market disruptions.

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Basis taps TruStage to offer BNPL solutions for dental care

The Paypers

US-based dental care financing provider Basis has partnered with insurtech company TruStage to integrate insurance coverage with BNPL solutions for dental patients.

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Will other mortgage warehouse lenders follow NYCB in pullback?

American Banker

Investors reacted negatively to New York Community Bancorp's divestiture of a $5 billion loan warehouse portfolio to JPMorgan Chase. The deal has triggered a debate about whether other banks might retreat from lending to nonbank home lenders.

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bunq joins the insurance market

The Paypers

Netherlands-based neobank bunq has upgraded its user-facing AI assistant Finn and joined the insurance market in partnership with Qover.

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Outsource With Confidence for RDC Program Success

Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) clients are more likely to use additional treasury services and maintain larger deposits. However, poor customer experiences—particularly if they delay deposits—can compel RDC clients to take their business elsewhere. This eBook makes the case for outsourcing RDC operations to a proven managed services partner. This approach helps Treasury Departments with limited resources provide excellent client experiences that result in higher retention and productivity rates.

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Will other mortgage warehouse lenders follow NYCB in pullback?

American Banker

Investors reacted negatively to New York Community Bancorp's divestiture of a $5 billion loan warehouse portfolio to JPMorgan Chase. The deal has triggered a debate about whether other banks might retreat from lending to nonbank home lenders.

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Nets joins forces with Klarna

The Paypers

The Network for Electronic Transfers (NETS) Group has entered a collaboration with Klarna to provide the latter’s payment methods to its Nordic merchant customers.

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A Black-owned bank bets big on AI

American Banker

CEO Kevin Cohee is convinced WiseOne, the AI companion OneUnited Bank rolled out late last year, can help customers make better financial decisions. Cohee also wants to see his passion for personal fiscal improvement play to a wider audience, through development of a nationwide financial literacy curriculum.

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HSBC UK launches new savings product

The Paypers

HSBC UK has announced the launch of a new savings product, aiming to optimise the manner in which customers and clients boost bank balance.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.