Sat.Dec 30, 2023 - Fri.Jan 05, 2024

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Why community bank stocks could rally in 2024

American Banker

A resilient economy and the potential for interest rate cuts could infuse further bullish sentiment into markets and bolster the shares of small lenders.

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Top payments trends for 2024

BankInovation

Industry experts predict adoption of real-time payments as well as the increased use of FedNow and digital wallets in 2024 as consumer demand for instant payments continues to grow.

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‘New Year, New Me’ CX Edition

Gonzobanker

In 2024, Smarter Banks will go on offense and differentiate with the customer experience. When it comes to client experience in banking, the last three years have been a long, reactionary grind of responding to COVID, a white-hot labor market driving up turnover, and rapidly shifting competitive dynamics. In the spirit of New Year’s resolutions, here are three ways “Smarter Banks” will flip the customer experience (CX) script in 2024. #1 Assign “unambiguous ownership” The customer experience for

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Has the fintech movement lived up to its promise?

American Banker

The fintech revolution has been more successful at working with banks than at trying to replace them, points out Gene Ludwig, former Comptroller of the Currency, chair of the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity, and co-founder of Canapi Ventures. Those with "must have" products will fare far better in 2024 than those with "nice to have" tools, he says.

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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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82% of FIs plan to migrate to the cloud in next 5 years

BankInovation

Eight in 10 financial institutions will migrate at least half their core systems to the cloud starting in 2024 in search of efficient operations, robust tech stacks and quick access to data.

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Future-Proofing Financial Services: Rule 3110 Updates Empower Brokers

Perficient

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted several unprecedented shifts in society, notably impacting the workplace and necessitating the adoption of innovative technologies that facilitate collaboration and efficiency in a work-from-home (WFH) environment. For brokers, in the financial services sector, remote work became especially difficult due to the requirement for firms to register and supervise all home office “branches.

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5 questions with … Valley Bank’s chief data and analytics officer

BankInovation

Valley Bank is exploring generative AI, expanding machine learning operations and paying keen attention to data throughout the bank’s operations. Chief Data and Analytics Officer Sanjay Sidhwani joined the $61 billion, Morristown, N.J.-based bank in April in the new position.

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Retail banking in 2024: What to expect

ATM Marketplace

2024 will be another major year of change and challenge for retail banks.

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The tech helping an Indiana credit union reel in businesses

American Banker

Since first partnering with the digital banking software firm Q2 in 2019, Hoosier Hills Credit Union in Bedford has seen significant growth in new account openings and deposit balances due to stronger payroll processing capabilities.

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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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Florida weighs cashless ban

Payments Dive

Lawmakers in the state are considering legislation that would require merchants to accept cash payments.

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Best Banking Books To Create The Modern Banker

South State Correspondent

One common question we field is recommendations of books to improve either bank performance or personal performance. Since many bankers likely have a self-improvement goal in their New Year’s resolutions, we wanted to put out our recommendations right from the start. To do this, we teamed up with Jack Hubbard, Managing Partner of the Modern Banker , to bring you our collective favorites.

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Perficient Recognized in Forrester’s AI Services Landscape

Perficient

As we step into 2024, the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and generative AI on enterprise-level organizations has reshaped the business landscape in profound ways. The continual evolution of these technologies has empowered businesses to leverage advanced algorithms, predictive modeling, and generative capabilities, driving unprecedented innovation and efficiency.

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Beneficial ownership: Final rule and its impacts on AML programs

Abrigo

New BOI requirements and how financial institutions can comply Here's what FinCEN's recent final rule for beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting says and how anti-money laundering (AML) programs will access BOI information. You might also like this on-demand webinar, "How the AMLA & CTA will affect your AML program." WATCH NOW Introduction Changes to beneficial ownership reporting Takeaway 1 Effective Jan. 1, 2024, many companies must begin reporting information about who ultimate

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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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New York enacts surcharge law

Payments Dive

The state’s new law will force merchants to limit credit card surcharges and more clearly disclose them to consumers. If the businesses don’t, they could face a $500 penalty.

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Trade group for providers of commercial sales-based financing files lawsuit challenging CFPB final small business lending rule

CFPB Monitor

Revenue Based Finance Coalition (RBFC), a trade group whose members include non-banks that provide sales-based financing to businesses, filed a lawsuit last week against the CFPB in a Florida federal district court challenging the CFPB’s final small business lending rule implementing Section 1071 of Dodd-Frank. The core argument made by RBFC is that because sales-based financing does not constitute “credit” within the meaning of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and Regulation B, the CFPB

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Perficient Recognized in Forrester Continuous Automation & Testing Services Landscape Report

Perficient

Software is at the core of the modern business model, making quality and performance top priorities to stay competitive. Organizations rely on continuous automation and testing (CAT) services to build business applications faster, with higher quality, and at scale to meet increasing market demands. Organizations looking to modernize testing capabilities with new technologies or fill skill gaps among internal teams seek external testing services providers for support.

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Not that difficult to buy a home in UK, claims NatWest chair

TheGuardian

Howard Davies criticised as being ‘out of touch’ with number of first-time buyers at lowest level in a decade The chair of NatWest has claimed it is not “that difficult” to get on the property ladder, despite the number of first-time buyers with a mortgage falling to the lowest level in a decade. “I don’t think it is that difficult at the moment,” Sir Howard Davies told the BBC.

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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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NY governor pursues BNPL regulation

Payments Dive

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is seeking to require buy now, pay later providers to obtain a license to operate in the state, in addition to other potential regulations for the industry.

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2024 ATM trends: What can we expect?

ATM Marketplace

Now that we have entered 2024, it's time to look ahead to see what trends we can expect to see this new year with a focus on three key areas: AI, video banking and cash automation.

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A Beatles-Inspired Look at the Future of Real Estate Valuation

Realwired Appraisal Management Blog

“Here Comes the Sun” by the Beatles repeats the phrase “It’s alright,” conveying a sense of reassurance that better days are on the horizon. But “Something in the Way” we approach our industry is missing. We all live in a “Yellow Submarine,” sometimes trapped in a rinse and repeat mindset. We need “Help!

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HSBC joins mortgage rate-cutting drive with deals below 4%

TheGuardian

Five- and 10-year fixed-rate remortgage offers announced as lenders big and small reduce rates HSBC has become the latest big UK lender to announce across-the-board mortgage interest rate cuts, with leading names announcing reductions of up to one percentage point. The bank’s new deals announced on Wednesday include a headline-grabbing five-year fixed remortgage deal of 3.94% for those borrowing up to 60% of the property value.

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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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Endava exec talks super apps, Paze and embedded payments

Payments Dive

The consulting firm’s global marketing head explained in an interview why a bank-backed digital wallet won’t be “the PayPal killer” and why the U.S. hasn’t seen a super app for payments.

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Acting Comptroller Hsu misses the point of decentralized tokenization

American Banker

When you centralize a blockchain, you lose much of its inherent value. Acting Comptroller Michael Hsu's support for centralized tokenization betrays a misunderstanding of the value of decentralization.

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SCOTUS slated to make lasting impact on consumer financial services industry in 2024

CFPB Monitor

This New Year is setting up to be a momentous one for the consumer financial services industry in the United States Supreme Court. In 2024, the Supreme Court is expected to decide four impactful cases that may hold that the CFPB’s funding is unconstitutional, eliminate giving deference to CFPB, FTC and federal banking agency regulations, severely narrow National Bank Act (NBA) preemption of state laws, and limit the time during which a plaintiff may sue an agency to facially challenge an agency

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A Farage farrago, crypto crime and rivers of cash: the 2023 Observer business awards

TheGuardian

Bank boss Alison Rose, Binance’s Changpeng Zhao, Sarah Bentley of Thames Water and OpenAI’s Sam Altman feature highly on this year’s prestigious honours list Sometimes business leaders want more than money: they want to be remembered. The Observer business agenda’s annual awards column endeavours to make that happen. Each year we recognise the corporate world’s most bizarre and bothersome “achievements” so that they may live on as long as newsprint and/or web servers shall last.

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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.