Sat.Oct 03, 2020 - Fri.Oct 09, 2020

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Marketplace Lending – Finding the Perfect Partner

Jack Henry

The secondary market for buying and selling loans was formed in the late 1800s as the mortgage market in the United States grew following the passing of the National Bank Act in 1864. This market traditionally has been operated using highly bespoke transaction agreements and a relationship-based system of market participants.

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Considerations for an effective cloud strategy

Accenture

Today, virtually every organisation is on a journey to cloud. But what’s the best way to map out and navigate that journey? And what opportunities and pitfalls should leaders watch out for along the way? To help organisations in every sector answer these questions and more, my team and I have decided to publish a…. The post Considerations for an effective cloud strategy appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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Media in the media

Matt Wilcox Pro

Not even George Orwell foresaw a time when the topic commanding a large share of media attention would be … the media. No, not the old-style broadcast and print media. Dominating the headlines these days are media the likes of Facebook, TikTok, WeChat, and, just to round things out, Netflix. All except Netflix have implications […].

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Microsoft Teams and Power BI – Analytics Hub and Content Management

Perficient

Hub is a logical/physical space where everyone comes searches content, deciphers information, looks for viable information, lineage etc. Microsoft is enabling a similar concept in Teams. Teams is where we all have begun to collaborate via virtual meetings, notes, lists, apps etc. The future vision and big picture is to treat Teams as a single pane of glass.

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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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Stem: A fintech solution helping the music industry prosper

Payments Dive

The music industry has been hit hard by the coronavirus. Concerts and tours are cancelled leaving those in the industry, from the novice to the veteran, scrambling for revenue. Stem, a distribution and payments platform founded by Milana Rabkin Lewis, is ready to lend a hand to help artists through the pandemic and beyond.

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Oracle, SWIFT Add Fast Cross-Border Payments For SMBs

PYMNTS

Oracle Banking Payments announced Wednesday (Oct. 7) that it is supporting SWIFT ’s latest service to speed effortless global cross-border payments for small- and medium-sized business (SMBs) and consumer markets. “We see great potential for banks that are competing against FinTechs and alternate networks when it comes to cross-border payments,” Sonny Singh , Oracle Financial Services’ executive vice president and general manager, said in a statement.

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What’s new with Microsoft Teams Recordings?

Perficient

Recently, Microsoft announced they’d be making some changes to where your meeting recordings will be stored. In this blog article, we’ll cover what this change entails and how you can start preparing for things within your organization. Where will my meeting recordings be stored now? In the past, any Teams meeting recording (TMR) would be saved to Microsoft Stream ( with the exception of those not licensed for Stream ).

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Thick file customers vs thin file: AI helps level the playing field

Payments Dive

For the unbanked, being able to establish credit is almost unattainable. The unfortunate scenario is many of those classified as a bad risk could realistically be one of the most credit worthy customers. Peter Barcak, CEO and founder of CredoLab PTE Ltd, explains how using AI technology can determine if a customer is risk-worthy.

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Digital Maturity + COVID-19 Resilience = Strategy

Accenture

This series of blogs looks at the future of banking in Growth Markets in a post-COVID-19 world. My first blog introduced the Digital Maturity Index (DMI), and concluded that digitally mature banks are best-positioned for a post-pandemic world. My second blog introduced our COVID-19 Resiliency Index (CRI), and showed how mapping each bank’s ranking on….

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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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Pandemic Has Consumers Embracing QR Codes And Contactless Payments

PYMNTS

While the global pandemic has taken a toll on almost every business, consumer demand for all things touchless is surging — and has even been a driver of growth for QR codes. Although the 20-year-old technology has long enjoyed strong adoption in Asia (especially China), 2020 could go down as the year that U.S. merchants and shoppers fully embrace those ubiquitous square squiggly merchant codes.

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The Importance of Implementing a Live Chat Tool for Episerver Commerce Cloud Sites

Perficient

Amid COVID-19, we are purchasing almost all of our products online, meaning more and more customers are going online each day to find the products they need, which can become a struggle with the lack of in-person assistance. Digital tools, however, can play an important role for businesses and consumers during their online shopping experience, such as integrating a Live Chatbot.

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How financial institutions, credit unions can improve operations, customer experiences

Payments Dive

The coronavirus forced financial institutions to search out new ways to engage with customers.

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A How-To Guide for Monetizing Open Banking and CDR data

Accenture

In our last post, we shared the two emerging business models that are powered by Open Banking application programming interfaces (APIs) and open data—banking as a platform and banking as a service. The future of any Open Banking or Consumer Data Right (CDR) offering will depend on the value it provides, or the monetization options….

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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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GAO Warns Of Aviation Cybersecurity Risks In Report

PYMNTS

A government report found that airplanes have a number of digital technologies that might become susceptible to hackers and says American regulators have not put sufficient methods in place to contend with the risk, Bloomberg reported. Entertainment systems, wireless networks, technologies that send information back to earth without intervention and position broadcasts are some of the complex digital infrastructure on commercial airliners.

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Video: 8 Ways to Crank up your Sitecore Authoring and Marketing Experience

Perficient

Whether you are launching a new Sitecore XP environment in the next few months or are wanting to enhance your authoring and marketing experience, this video should be a whistle stop on your enhancements campaign tour. Originally this content was to be presented live in Budapest at SUGCON 2020 but then, well, you know. Like the rest of the world, we went virtual and this was delivered to a focused audience of Sitecore diehards and technical wizards.

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Full PCI compliance dips while security threats mount

Payments Source

It's a perplexing problem for those developing and instituting Payment Card Industry data security standards: Even as threats rise, the number of organizations that fully comply continues to drop.

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Middle market banks’ top three cloud myths

Accenture

Lately it seems like every conversation I have with middle market banks turns into a discussion about cloud. Leaders are increasingly worried about being left behind, and rightfully so. The hype is real. This market’s interest in cloud stems from what’s happening across banking. A full 95% of banks have adopted some form of public…. The post Middle market banks’ top three cloud myths appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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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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Visa’s Phalen: Collaborative Commerce Is B2B Payments' Next Act

PYMNTS

The late Harvard Professor Clay Christensen was and is famed for the “jobs to be done” theory of business innovation. In a nutshell: Companies (and even consumers) “hire” goods or services to get where they want to go, to make progress, to satisfy goals. Kevin Phalen , head of global business solutions at Visa , told Karen Webster that the consumerization and the digitization of the B2B space are enabling firms to get the job — moving money — done with efficiencies previously unknown.

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How Perficient and Microsoft Can Help You Return to Work

Perficient

To say the world has changed this year would be an understatement. In every part of life, we have had to learn and adapt, and business is no different. The truth is that your business will never be the same. The world today is digital first more than ever, and your business must adapt to meet the need of your consumers – both internally and externally.

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5 Things You Are Going To Have To Do With Your Branches In 2021 and Beyond

South State Correspondent

The combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and the interest rate environment drives every bank to rethink their branch delivery. In a world with six percent net interest margins, banks can have all the branches they want. However, in an environment with sub-three percent margins, banks can no longer afford an extensive bank network.

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How to secure finance on the front line

Accenture

Financial institutions are widely considered to have a stronghold on elite cybersecurity skills and technologies of any industry—and for good reason. They face the most sophisticated cyber threat actors who continually grow their capabilities and are rarely held accountable across the global footprint where they operate. Financial institutions are literally defending the front lines of….

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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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Mastercard: The Touchless And Caring Economies Are Boosting P2P Adoption

PYMNTS

Consumers seeking out low- to no-touch payments options amid public health concerns have combined with an uptick in charitable donations and tips to boost the comfort with peer-to-peer (P2P) payment platforms, Silvana Hernandez , senior vice president of digital payments at Mastercard , told PYMNTS. Hernandez added that while there was no way to predict or prepare for the pandemic, she’s pleased that the existing payments infrastructure was in place for consumers to leverage — particularly durin

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Perficient Named one of Atlanta’s 2020 Best Places to Work

Perficient

There’s a reason why one of our most important values at Perficient is “People” We embrace our culture and our talented colleagues. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we have been named a 2020 Best Places to Work by the Atlanta Business Journal! So far in 2020, Perficient offices have already won three top workplace awards in the Southeast region.

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Nexi said to eye Denmark’s Nets in new blockbuster payments play

Payments Source

Nexi SpA is already hunting for its next target after agreeing a milestone payments merger with Italian rival SIA SpA, as consolidation in the sector shows little sign of easing.

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Current Commercial Loan Pricing, Opportunities, and Risks For Banks

South State Correspondent

The Covid-19 pandemic has decimated the US economy, and the recovery may take longer than initially suspected. However, currently, community banks have an opportunity to identify and win or retain longer-term, credit-worthy relationships at better credit spreads. There are also substantial challenges facing the entire banking industry.

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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.