The Financial Brand
APRIL 2, 2024
This article How Three Community Bank CEOs Are Tackling Tech, Talent and Deposit Challenges appeared first on The Financial Brand. Community banks find themselves at a crossroads, grappling with the dual pressures of technological advancement and shifting depositor expectations. Three CEOs share their challenges and opportunities, and how they're addressing them.
South State Correspondent
APRIL 4, 2024
The Federal debt is already impacting banking. Cyclical economic changes are driven by business cycles. These changes may occur swiftly, such as interest rate changes, inflation changes, or unemployment rate changes. Cyclical changes and their impact on the economy dominate the news and the attention of corporate boardrooms because they are immediate and need to be addressed in real-time.
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Jeff For Banks
APRIL 4, 2024
This was the question posed to Bank Profitability students as part of the Oregon Bankers' Association's Executive Development Program (EDP). These were up-and-coming bankers, the future leaders of our industry, identifying industry trends that will have the greatest impact on their bank, in no particular order. 1. Interest Rates So many financial institutions had a positive GAP (assets that are maturing or repricing within one year minus liabilities that are maturing or repricing within one year
ABA Community Banking
APRIL 4, 2024
The FDIC has released an updated financial inclusion strategic plan that calls on the agency to take steps to encourage bank lending, investments and services that support healthy communities, including in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods and other underserved communities, FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg said. The post FDIC unveils updated financial inclusion strategic plan appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.
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TheGuardian
APRIL 1, 2024
It’s regularly being created and destroyed – and economic models that don’t reflect that fact are not even slightly useful Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email In the classic 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, depositors demand their money from a small-town building society. Its manager, George Bailey (in an unforgettable performance by James Stewart), explains that the money is not in the building society’s vault; it has been lent to other people in the town.
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Gonzobanker
APRIL 4, 2024
While valuation at many fintechs has dropped since 2022, Chime has bucked the trend. Is it ready for an IPO? Bloomberg recently reported that Chime, the leading fintech neobank, is planning to go public in 2025. According to the report , Chime has not engaged investment banks to date. The unnamed source is a “person familiar with the matter,” and a representative for the company declined to comment.
Cisco
APRIL 2, 2024
Record-Breaking Security Vulnerabilities in 2023 According to data from Statista , the amount of vulnerabilities recorded in 2023 hit a record number with 29,000 new vulnerabilities reported.
ABA Community Banking
APRIL 5, 2024
What's the CEO-eye view on the U.S. economy, business conditions and the regulatory environment for banks? The post Podcast: The CEO view from Main Street appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.
BankInovation
APRIL 2, 2024
The 2023 collapse of Silicon Valley Bank reminded fintechs and financial institutions of the importance of having a backup loan servicer in the case of a trigger event.
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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.
Payments Dive
APRIL 2, 2024
The e-commerce giant will replace the grab-and-go tech with its smart shopping carts in its Amazon Fresh grocery stores, a tech media outlet reported.
Perficient
APRIL 3, 2024
Insurers are constantly striving to improve their operations, provide better experiences for customers, and minimize risks. Perficient insurance experts were interviewed for Forrester’s report, “ The Top Emerging Technologies In Insurance, 2024 ,” and discussed technologies expected to emerge in the insurance industry over the next five years, considering them now, and in the short-term, medium-term, and long-term future.
Abrigo
APRIL 2, 2024
Stand-ou t bank business strateg ies for lending success These bank business strategies will help you market, target, add value to your lending services and build lasting relationships with your borrowers. You might also like this SMB Lending Insights report for banks and credit unions Download report Takeaway 1 Banks need to implement good business strategies to attract new customers and build on existing relationships.
ATM Marketplace
APRIL 2, 2024
Wells Fargo shared tips on how to protect ATMs.
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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.
Payments Dive
APRIL 1, 2024
The settlement gives merchants the ability to surcharge for nearly all Visa and Mastercard credit card transactions, and puts pressure on American Express to allow the same.
TheGuardian
APRIL 4, 2024
Lending to meat, dairy and feed corporations led to ‘significant proportion’ of banks’ emissions, Friends of the Earth found American banks are “sabotaging” their own climate commitments by financing meat, dairy and feed corporations, according to a report. The report analysed funding from 58 US banks to animal protein and feed companies in the form of loans and underwriting, such as share and bond issuance guarantees.
BankUnderground
APRIL 3, 2024
Laura Achiro, Gerry Gunner and Neha Bora A flow of funds framework is a way of understanding and tracking the movement of financial assets between different sectors of the economy. This blog specifically analyses UK corporate and household sectoral flows from 2000 to the present and highlights how this framework can reveal useful trends and signals for policymakers about the real economy.
ATM Marketplace
APRIL 5, 2024
Managing ATMs well and handling cash responsibly can make using cash eco-friendly.
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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.
Payments Dive
APRIL 3, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau received 70,000 card-related complaints from consumers last year, according to a report last week.
TheGuardian
APRIL 5, 2024
The fuss over an outlawed commercial threatens to obscure the fact that the industry is reaping record profits for a poorer service It’s been quite the year for Hollywood’s humanitarians. Olivia Colman took on pension funds for their role in fossil fuel expansion, Game of Thrones stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie challenged high street banks’ role in the same polluting activities, and actor Dominic West starred in a Nationwide advert calling out the banks for their sweeping branch closures.
BankInovation
APRIL 4, 2024
TD Bank is experimenting with virtual reality to build practical skill sets through controlled customer simulations, leading to improved employee training. “TD has been experimenting with different immersive experiences for colleagues and customers,” TD Product Manager Kerry Narduzzi told Bank Automation News.
American Banker
APRIL 4, 2024
The Federal Reserve, historically a secretive and isolated institution, has made a concerted effort to explain itself to and be understood by the public since 2008. But try as it might, the central bank is still viewed by many as an enigma, if not an enemy.
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Payments Dive
APRIL 4, 2024
The payments processing giant is providing support to extend the Brazilian instant payments system to merchants and consumers around the world.
TheGuardian
MARCH 31, 2024
Exclusive: Whistleblower raised concerns about security of in-branch coin-counter software The Bank of England is examining claims that the high street lender Metro Bank put customers’ data at risk by allegedly misusing software at the centre of a long-running legal dispute. Last month the central bank’s whistleblowing team was contacted by a person raising concerns about the integrity and security of software used to connect Metro Bank’s in-branch coin-counters – known as Magic Money Machines –
BankInovation
APRIL 4, 2024
ACI Worldwide is exploring the use of its cloud platform to onboard bank clients to The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments network.
American Banker
APRIL 1, 2024
This annual list of luminaries honors the women who lead in banking and finance across the country, individually and in teams.
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