Sat.Dec 04, 2021 - Fri.Dec 10, 2021

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For success, neobanks need to know their “why”

Accenture

If you believe the hype, neobanks are disrupting every corner of the financial services market. The biggest players are signing up tens of millions of customers, with some of them experiencing 150% year-on-year growth in their customer base, according to Accenture research. But as we discussed in our last post on how neobanks can balance…. The post For success, neobanks need to know their “why” appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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OCC Sets 2022 Assessment Schedule

Perficient

So, you’re the CEO of a national banking corporation or a national savings bank. Therefore, your primary federal bank regulator is the Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC conducts frequent on-site examinations as they investigate, prepare, and then issue its reports of examination. Not only do you and your staff get to experience the joy of hosting the OCC examination teams, but your financial institution also gets to pay for the examinations. 2022 Assessment Schedule.

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Fintech Deals to Watch: Growing in the Digital World

Gonzobanker

Hot embers continue to glow in the fintech market that GonzoBanker mothership Cornerstone Advisors serves. According to CB Insights, US fintechs raised $14.6B in the most recent quarter. While that’s lower than the prior quarter, it’s up 121% for the year. Some perspective on how fast this fintech market is moving: Fintech Labs tracks 269 $1B+ valued fintech unicorns that have been founded in just the past two decades. #267 on the list is Thought Machine , a company started only six years ago th

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FFIEC BSA Exam Manual Updates: How Do They Affect Your Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Program?

Abrigo

New updates to the FFIEC BSA Exam Manual The December 2022 release is the latest since revisions began in 2020 as the council attempts to clarify and achieve transparency. Would you like other articles like this in your inbox? Takeaway 1 The December 2021 update affects four sections of the existing FFIEC BSA exam manual. Takeaway 2 AML programs should be reviewed to ensure all current regulatory expectations are addressed.

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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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Hit or miss? Our Top 10 Banking Trends, reviewed.

Accenture

Every January since 2018, our annual “Top 10 Banking Trends” report has attempted to cut through the noise and reveal the real forces shaping the industry’s future. We’ll be hard at work putting the finishing touches on our 2022 version over the holidays. It will be unusual in more ways than one. On top of the bold predictions and fresh analysis you’re….

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Market Commentary: Week of December 6, 2021

SWBC's LenderHub

Last Week. Yet another wild one, last week. The week started with further angst over the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron. While equities rallied Monday after the steep selloff on Black Friday, you could feel that the market was spooked and ready to sell-off.

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3 Common Loan Review Weaknesses

Abrigo

Avoiding common loan review obstacles Three common weaknesses within the loan review process can prevent a loan review department from being fully effective. Learn how to strengthen your loan review process. Download Whitepaper . Takeaway 1 Financial institutions often lack independent assessments to evaluate processes and procedures. Takeaway 2 A key issue for FIs is a lack of documentation and supported data to make informed decisions.

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Instant payments are the key to unlock innovation

Accenture

Money is on the move. Transactions that once took days now happen in seconds as new technology kickstarts a real-time payments revolution that is fundamentally changing how people work and live. The old 9-to-5 ways of doing business are being swept aside by the need to be able to send money anytime. All over the world, increasingly tech-savvy consumers and companies want their bill….

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2 reasons to deploy more ATMs in 2022

ATM Marketplace

Will ATMs still be worth it in 2022? The short answer is: yes. Read more for the long answer.

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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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Does regulation bite only the less profitable? Evidence from the too big to fail reforms

BankUnderground

Tirupam Goel, Ulf Lewrick and Aakriti Mathur. Reforms following the 2008 financial crisis have led to significant increases in banks’ capital requirements. A large literature since then has focused on understanding how banks respond to these changes. Our new paper shows that pre-reform profitability is a vital, but often overlooked, driver of banks’ responses.

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Best Practices for a Successful BSA/AML Board Training

Abrigo

Best practices for your BSA/AML risk assessment Learn top tips for creating a risk assessment to capture your institution's risk. . Would you like other articles like this in your inbox? Takeaway 1 The board needs to see the BSA program from a higher level to understand the enterprise-wide risk to the institution. Takeaway 2 An in-person or video conference can help FIs facilitate deeper discussions and answer questions as needed.

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Are you ready for the Open Finance wave?

Accenture

For many years, banks have been digitising their existing products and channels to make it easier for customers to do what they do already. As Open Banking becomes ever more pervasive, it has capitalized on customer payment data to allow customers not just to do familiar things more easily or at lower cost, but to do new things they never knew…. The post Are you ready for the Open Finance wave?

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Crypto CEOs push back against calls for stablecoin crackdown

American Banker

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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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The structure of regulatory revolutions

BankUnderground

Austen Saunders and Rajan Patel. What can the history and philosophy of science teach us about regulatory reform? In this post, we borrow Thomas Kuhn’s idea of ‘ scientific revolutions ’ to argue that radical overhauls of regulation often occur after crises but that, once major reforms have been completed, it’s normal to have periods when rules do not change so much.

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How is Your Institution’s Loan Review Function Organized?

Abrigo

How do other FIs organize their loan review function? Regardless of how the loan review function is organized, it’s paramount that the loan review function is independent. You might also like this whitepaper, Effective Loan Review. DOWNLOAD Now. Takeaway 1 An FI’s loan review function can be organized internally, externally, or through a hybrid approach.

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Examining current, future fintech trends

ATM Marketplace

Where is fintech headed in 2022? Read more to find out!

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Listen: How automation and emerging technologies are changing lending

BankInovation

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shut down has led to a significant increase among consumers adopting digital technologies to interact with the world. Now is an especially exciting time for financial services, Vince Passione, CEO of lending platform and online marketplace LendKey, tells Bank Automation News in this episode of "The Buzz” podcast.

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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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Banks get behind CFPB's tough approach to tech giants

American Banker

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How to Conduct an Exam-Proof BSA/AML Risk Assessment

Abrigo

Best practices for your BSA/AML risk assessment Learn top tips for creating a risk assessment to capture your institution's risk. . Would you like other articles like this in your inbox? Takeaway 1 Documentation is one of the most critical aspects of performing a risk assessment. Takeaway 2 Inherent risk and residual risk should be evaluated before mitigating factors are considered.

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Finovate Interview Series: Part 2

William Mills

Welcome back to WMA’s Finovate 2021 video series. This week, we are sharing a discussion between William Mills, CEO of WMA, and Beth Johnson, chief experience officer at Citizens Financial Group. The pair discusses changes in the digital landscape, catering to rapidly evolving customer preferences, and the future of financial services.

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State Street, Vanguard pilot tests live trade on blockchain, smart contracts

BankInovation

State Street announced Monday it had completed a margin calculation process for a live trade of a 30-day foreign exchange (FX) forward contract with Vanguard using blockchain technology and smart contracts to automate the collateral settlement. The $100,000 trade between the $323.1 billion State Street and the investment company Vanguard as counterparties was a pilot […].

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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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Partisan battle brewing over FDIC's bank merger policy

American Banker

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The Paypers launches the Cross-Border Payments and Ecommerce Report 2021–2022

The Paypers

The Paypers has published the Cross-Border Payments and Ecommerce Report 2021–2022 , the ultimate source of information for players interested in selling across borders.

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CFPB finalizes Regulation Z changes to address discontinuation of LIBOR index

CFPB Monitor

The CFPB has issued a final rule amending Regulation Z to address the discontinuation of the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) that is currently used by many creditors as the index for calculating the interest rate on credit cards and other variable-rate consumer credit products. In 2017, the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the regulator that oversees the panel of banks on whose submissions LIBOR is based, announced plans to discontinue LIBOR after 2021.

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KeyBank grows geographic footprint by targeting doctors, dentists

BankInovation

KeyBank’s Laurel Road for Doctors, a digital banking platform tailored to physicians and dentists, has signed up 5,000 users since its March launch. Now, the $187 billion bank plans to apply its targeted-demographic strategy with a similar offering for nurses to launch in early 2022. It’s a potential market of more than 4 million users […].

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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.