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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: Banking

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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Why Tech-Forward Tax and Accounting Firms Have the Inside Track to the Future

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Sales Engineer Manager

Automating time-consuming manual tasks can save your firm hundreds of hours–and thousands of dollars. But it can also have longer-lasting benefits, like helping you attract and retain the next generation of CPAs, and we don’t need to tell you how important that is amid the current generational staffing crisis in the tax and accounting profession. You'll want to save your seat for this new webinar with industry expert Joe Wroblewski, where we'll explore how to: Maximize ROI with Cost-Effective Te

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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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Cash recycling: Leveraging its delicate balance

ATM Marketplace

Here are three newer recycling technologies and tools to consider.

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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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Case Study: Anchor Loans Cuts Doc Prep Time by 90% with GoDocs Automation

Anchor Loans, one of the nation’s top private lenders, turned to GoDocs to modernize its document preparation process and keep pace with growing loan volume. By automating doc generation and integrating seamlessly with internal systems, Anchor Loans drastically reduced prep time and minimized risk—without adding headcount. Learn how GoDocs helped Anchor Loans begin finalizing loan packages in just minutes, enabling faster, more scalable lending with real-time compliance across 48 states.

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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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‘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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Live Demo - Supercharge your Month End Close

Automation generally supercharges any process and brings its value to the forefront. See how infusing automation such as ART (our month-end close solution), into your close can get you to the next level of closing. We will share a live demo of SkyStem's solution, ART and share the key elements of month-end close automation. Through ART, we'll take a look at: What month-end close automation entails Which process steps can and should be automated Benefits of achieving process automation, and Why i

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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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Credit Card Competition bill backers keep pressure on

Payments Dive

Republican Sen. Roger Marshall has a new ad pitching the Credit Card Competition Act proposal aimed at dislodging Visa and Mastercard’s dominance.

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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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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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Leverage Trellis Court Data To Identify More Investment Opportunities

Finance teams find Trellis to be particularly effective in conducting comprehensive due diligence on both individuals and businesses. With our court data solution, financial experts can access critical litigation insights, making it an invaluable resource for informed decision-making in the financial sector.

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Debt collectors that take advantage of surviving spouses and their vulnerabilities

CFPB

The CFPB is concerned that medical debt collectors may try to capitalize on surviving spouses’ vulnerabilities to try to collect unpaid medical bills, including bills that may not even be owed.

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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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Ex-NatWest CEO who left after Nigel Farage row to advise law firm

TheGuardian

Alison Rose appointed as diversity and inclusion adviser at leading firm Mishcon de Reya Alison Rose, the former chief executive of NatWest, has taken a job as an adviser to one of the UK’s top law firms as she tries to return to the City after a career-damaging row with Nigel Farage last year. Rose is joining Mishcon de Reya as a diversity and inclusion adviser, a role that will involve mentoring some of the firm’s partners.

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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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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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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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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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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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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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Commercial Lenders, Playing It Safe Is the Real Risk

Why Legacy Lending Workflows Are Costing You More Than You Think Legacy systems and manual workflows might feel familiar, but they come with growing risks—compliance gaps, costly delays, and lost opportunities. This guide breaks down why clinging to traditional processes is no longer sustainable and how automation can help lenders regain control, improve efficiency, and reduce risk across the closing process.