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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Back to Basics with Reconciliations

Join us in this webinar, where we share best practices on how to think about the reconciliation work each month, when best to do reconciliations, how they should be prepared, and some common pitfalls to avoid. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to properly prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and its impact on the financial statements.

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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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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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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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How a Managed Services Partner Can Reduce the Friction in Your RDC Program

Treasury teams at community banks face an ongoing challenge of delivering frictionless customer experiences as they support treasury products – especially RDC. This infographic focuses on the efficiencies community banks gain when partnering with a proven managed services provider. You’ll see the advantages you can gain when a managed services partner leverages online tools, skilled customer and technical support personnel, and fulfillment and logistics capabilities to streamline RDC fulfillment

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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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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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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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Budget Playbook for Commercial Lenders — Bank and Credit Union Edition

Amid market uncertainty, banks and credit unions are faced with critical decisions about the future of their commercial lending. With fluctuating interest rates and rising competition from non-bank lenders, it's critical to allocate your 2025 budget strategically to optimize lending operations. Our Budget Playbook for Commercial Lenders delivers key strategies to help you navigate these challenges, ensuring your institution is well-positioned for the coming year.

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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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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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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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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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It Takes Two to Tango

With automation, you’ll reduce errors and save valuable time, allowing you to focus on what really matters: strategic analysis and insightful decision-making. Picture accurate financial reports ready at your fingertips, giving you the confidence to tackle business challenges head-on. Embracing automation not only boosts productivity but also elevates your role from number cruncher to closing rockstar.

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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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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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PC Financial joins forces with Temenos

The Paypers

Switzerland-based Temenos has announced that President’s Choice Financial (PC Financial) selected its services in a bid to expand into the Canadian banking market.

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The 2024 Lenders Guide to Automating the Complex Loan

Download the latest edition of GoDocs' "The Lender's Guide to Automating the Complex Loan." This comprehensive guide offers financial institutions valuable insights into document automation for complex commercial loans. It unpacks the intricacies of complex loans and showcases how an automation platform like GoDocs — the leading commercial loan closing platform — delivers impressive benefits and ROI to any FI.

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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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Coining Connections in India and US Payment Systems

Tomorrow's Transactions

In the dynamic realm of digital transactions, India and the United States stand out as two distinct landscapes, each with its own set of challenges, triumphs, and innovative solutions. As someone who has witnessed the evolution of payment systems in both countries, the contrasts between my birthplace, India, and my current residence, the US, are… Continue reading Coining Connections in India and US Payment Systems The post Coining Connections in India and US Payment Systems first appeared

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Alerus Financial to expand in Minnesota with bank acquisition

American Banker

The $116 million deal to acquire HMN Financial in Rochester would mark the 26th acquisition of this century for Alerus. The transaction is slated to close in the fourth quarter.

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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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Confronting the Change Challenge

Change is difficult, whether in our private or work life. However, without change, growth and learning are difficult not to mention keeping up with the market and staying competitive. We have all worked for or ourselves are the bosses that prefer to keep the status quo. We will discuss how to address the "change challenge" to enable you to be a changemaker and a graceful recipient of change.