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5 Strategies for financial institutions to thrive after rate cuts

Abrigo

Manage the impact of interest rate cuts at your institution These five tips from Abrigo expert Dave Koch will help banks and credit unions prepare for a rate drop. You might also like this on-demand webinar, "Navigating uncertain times: Strategies for effective risk management and compliance." WATCH Takeaway 1 As financial institutions anticipate rate cuts, many are questioning how to structure their lending and ALM strategies accordingly.

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Strategic shifts to future-proof your lending business

Accenture

Drawing from our Commercial Banking Top Trends for 2024, this series explores how banks can modernize their lending business and differentiate the customer experience by integrating AI, machine learning and other advanced tools. Previously, we touched on the disruptions in lending and analyzed the first of six shifts necessary to future-proof one’s business.

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The Messes I’d Unmake; The Blunders I’d Undo!

BankBazaar

Credit C ards are like friendships – You must choose them wisely as t hey can be a source of great support or a cause for a major downfall ! Now, let’s dive into the narrative tale of a C redit C ard journey gone awry and how you must learn from it! I’ve got a tale I’d like to share, a lesson learned in strife, Of Credit Cards and careless swipes that tangled up my life.

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Fed payments proposal pits big banks against small rivals

Payments Dive

The Federal Reserve’s proposal to extend the operating hours of two interbank payments systems has been welcomed by large banks, but panned by many small financial institutions.

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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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5 Effective Ways to Turbocharge Your Auto Loan Portfolio

SWBC's LenderHub

How Income Generation, Risk Management, and Transaction Enablement™ Help Your FI Win the Race Table of Contents 5 Ways to Effectively Turbocharge Your Auto Loan Portfolio Ensure Your Auto Loan Portfolio is Protected Don’t Get Lapped in Coverage Diversify Your Auto Loan Portfolio Make a Pit Stop with an Effective Collections System Create an Easier Way for Your Borrowers to Pay How You Could Benefit from Partnering with a Winning Pit Crew Lap the Competition with an Income Generation Crew Buckle

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Scalability in Banking and Digital Transformation Example

South State Correspondent

Banking is woefully inefficient. There is a myriad of manual processes that take place everyday in banking driving up unit economics and causing the average bank to operate with a 77+% efficiency ratio. To be competitive in the future, banks need to be operating at an efficiency ratio of below 40%. Part of the issue is that while bankers are good at focusing on cost controls, many are weak at designing business models and workflow that scale.

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Walmart, Fiserv team to offer real-time payments

Payments Dive

The retail giant and payments processor are targeting next year for offering consumers a real-time payment option online.

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‘At the end of the day, it’s all about financial empowerment’

ABA Community Banking

As chief corporate responsibility officer for Webster Bank, Marissa Weidner works across the bank's footprints and business lines to help advance the bank's goals of financial empowerment. The post ‘At the end of the day, it’s all about financial empowerment’ appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Lloyds sent my £37,000 to the Duchy of Cornwall and I can’t get it back

TheGuardian

I changed my business to sole trader status. The next thing I knew, my firm had been deemed ‘dissolved’ and my money given to the state Please help me track down my £37,700. In November 2023, ill health forced me to wind up my limited company and revert the business to sole-trader. My bank, Lloyds, duly changed my business account and sent a new debit card.

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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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Drivers of ROA for Community Banks

South State Correspondent

In Q2/24 the average return on assets (ROA) for community banks (under $10B in assets) was 1.08%, with an average ROE of 10.44%. But within the community banking sector, performance varied among banks significantly. We analyze the drivers of ROA for the community bank segment last quarter and consider what financial variables explain bank performance.

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Who really pays for your credit card reward points?

Payments Dive

"While rewards may feel like a bonus for those who use credit cards regularly, they ultimately come at a cost," writes one payments executive.

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Banking social media strategy: Developing impactful content

ATM Marketplace

Regina DeMars, director of content marketing and social media strategy at FNBO, delivered a keynote session about content strategies that work at the Bank Customer Experience Summit.

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10 Factors Lenders Consider for Loan Commercial

Commercial Lending USA

Get expert insights on the key factors lenders evaluate when assessing loan commercial applications. Learn how to improve your chances of securing financing for your business.

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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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Silvergate executive blames Fed, FDIC and OCC for bank's collapse

American Banker

As Silvergate Capital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, an executive said the company's crypto-friendly bank went down last year because regulators soured on its business model.

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Amazon adds PayPal option to Buy with Prime

Payments Dive

The e-commerce platform will also let consumers connect their PayPal and Prime accounts next year, and access free shipping via Buy with Prime on some merchants’ sites.

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Cash recycling: Leveraging its delicate balance

ATM Marketplace

Here are three newer recycling technologies and tools to consider.

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From Panic to Possibility: The Case for Digital Card Issuance and Push Provisioning

Jack Henry

Discover how digital card issuance and push provisioning can increase digital engagement for your bank or credit union and keep you top-of-mind, -wallet, and -app.

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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 most at risk of failing share these three red flags

American Banker

A new academic paper dives into the key factors that have caused bank failures over the past 160 years.

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Apple launches Affirm BNPL option

Payments Dive

Apple Pay customers can now use their iOS 18 phone or iPadOS 18 to access Affirm buy now, pay later options, including some that don’t charge interest.

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Public Enemy review – anatomy of Greece’s economic crisis framed as epic tragedy

TheGuardian

Elisa Mantin’s film shows Greeks as the economic victims of ideologically motivated EU forces, imposing punishment-via-austerity Maybe the true Greek tragedy is the temptation to interpret everything that happens in that country under the long Hellenic shadow of history. It is former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis who suggests here that the 2010s debt crisis was akin to an ancient tragedy, with the likes of him, prime minister Alexis Tsipras and a slowly strangulated populace at the mercy of

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TD Bank names Chun as CEO

BankInovation

TD Bank named Raymond Chun its incoming chief executive today after current CEO Bharat Masrani announced plans to retire in April. Chun, who serves as the bank’s group head of Canadian personal banking, will become chief operating officer Nov. 1 as he plans to step up as CEO on April 10, Masrani said today during […] The post TD Bank names Chun as CEO appeared first on Bank Automation News.

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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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Can banks trust large language models?

American Banker

A prominent AI expert says the risk of hallucination and error can never be completely eliminated. Experts at BBVA and Celent say those risks can be mitigated.

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CFPB sues credit card company over excessive fees

Payments Dive

The agency says Horizon Card Services violated the Truth in Lending Act by charging fees as high as 60% of a customer’s credit limit, and all but refusing to cancel their cards.

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Fireblocks and Chainlink accelerate regulated stablecoin issuance

The Paypers

US-based Fireblocks has partnered with Chainlink to provide an end-to-end technology for financial institutions looking to issue and transact regulated stablecoins.

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Big tech pulls back on in-house financial services innovation

BankInovation

Tech giants are bailing out on in-house financial services innovation as they look to embed their offerings into third-party vendor platforms. “After nearly a decade or more of big tech companies venturing into launching their own financial products, many of the major players have now pulled back,” Laura Kennedy, principal analyst at think tank CBInsights, […] The post Big tech pulls back on in-house financial services innovation appeared first on Bank Automation News.

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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.