South State Correspondent
MAY 4, 2025
When it comes to bank acquisitions, there are metrics that matter. We analyzed all community banks acquired from 2020 to the end of 2024 (approximately 600 banks), and we measured those defunct banks performance compared to surviving banks. The defunct banks were all under $10Bn in assets and our hypothesis was that return on assets (ROA) (or return on equity (ROE)) were the main predictors of survivability.
Jeff For Banks
MAY 5, 2025
In a discussion today, I asked a bank CEO and Chief Banking Officer: Why can't we design a business checking account that uses technology to determine the average balance that receives interest over a certain amount instead of this Analysis Checking product? Instead of applying all of these transactions to burn down what would be interest paid to the customer.
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ATM Marketplace
MAY 6, 2025
In 2024, global ATM fraud incidents accounted for 84.1% of all ATM-related crimes. How can operators fight back?
Commercial Lending USA
MAY 7, 2025
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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
TheGuardian
MAY 7, 2025
President Trumps tariffs have plunged the world economy into chaos. But history counsels against despair and the left should seize on capitalisms crisis of legitimacy Since Donald Trump launched his chaotic trade war earlier this year, it has become a truism to say he has plunged the world economy into crisis. At last months spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, where policymakers and finance ministers from all over congregated, the attenders were shel
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Payments Dive
MAY 6, 2025
The biggest U.S. card network is setting up partnerships and innovating behind the scenes to develop stablecoins for cross-border uses.
South State Correspondent
MAY 7, 2025
When it comes to bank performance, there are lots of metrics to manage. The two that we would submit are the most important, are risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC) and customer relevancy. While we have spoken at length about managing loans, deposits and customers around RAROC, in this article we focus on measuring relevance. Producing a RAROC above your cost of capital needs to be balanced with creating a bank that impresses your customers so much that they engage with you and talk about yo
Abrigo
MAY 3, 2025
A practical framework built for speed, efficiency & community impact Supporting small businesses in your community while meeting the bank or credit union's expectations around risk and reward demands a well-structured, deliberate small business lending program. Here's how to build one. Key topics covered in this post: Simply offering loans to small businesses doesn't cut it.
American Banker
MAY 7, 2025
The last time someone decided to gut a major financial services regulatory agency, we got the Great Recession. DOGE cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could trigger similar pain.
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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.
Payments Dive
MAY 5, 2025
The Senate Finance Committee chair urged colleagues to support Frank Bisignano to become head of the Social Security Administration when they vote on his nomination this week.
The Paypers
MAY 9, 2025
Stripe launches new products on its platform, designed to support businesses to leverage AI and stablecoin to accelerate growth.
Abrigo
MAY 6, 2025
This article covers these key topics: What is a loan review worksheet? 5 Benefits of using worksheets Worksheet examples for loan reviewers Utilizing loan review worksheet for consistent analysis Analytical inconsistency is a persistent challenge in the loan review profession, often leading to wildly different approaches across reviewers. Striking the right balance is essentialand a structured tool like the loan review worksheet can help reviewers achieve clarity, consistency, and more meaningf
American Banker
MAY 6, 2025
The three largest deals raised an average of more than $136 million.
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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
Payments Dive
MAY 9, 2025
The payments processor sharpens its focus on how to squeeze $600 million in “cost synergies” from its $24 billion purchase of Worldpay.
The Paypers
MAY 9, 2025
Publicly traded crypto exchange Coinbase has planned to acquire derivatives exchange Deribit in a USD 2.9 billion deal tofurther expand into crypto markets.
William Mills
MAY 6, 2025
A strong brand strategy will shape how the world perceives you, amplify your impact, drive engagement, and influence your fintech's strategic goals.
American Banker
MAY 6, 2025
Tokenization is a natural fit for the private credit market, and could help create new investment opportunities. But regulators must create clear rules of the road.
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Payments Dive
MAY 5, 2025
The payment processor has signed thousands of restaurants in Europe and expects to delve deeper into that business.
The Paypers
MAY 9, 2025
Stripe partners with Verifone to offer unified commerce, as Stripe’s services will run on Verifone hardware, offering customers flexibility and more choice at checkout.
ABA Community Banking
MAY 5, 2025
The OCC is seeking public input on the key challenges and barriers faced by community banks in the adoption and implementation of digital banking solutions. The post OCC seeks comment on digitalization challenges for community banks appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.
American Banker
MAY 9, 2025
Ending the separation of banking and commerce would open the door to dangerous concentrations of power and influence, and would threaten financial and economic stability as well as access to credit for consumers and Main Street businesses.
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Payments Dive
MAY 7, 2025
A basketball training company is suing the tech titan, which it claims unfairly collected money from potentially more than 100,000 app developers.
The Paypers
MAY 5, 2025
Cross River Bank , a technology infrastructure provider, has launched its international payment solution, processing transactions with the business finance platform Aion.
ABA Community Banking
MAY 6, 2025
ABA is urging senators to support a resolution to overturn a 2024 final rule that changed how the OCC reviews proposed bank mergers. The post ABA presses senators to overturn OCC merger rule appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.
American Banker
MAY 6, 2025
Despite its commitment to change its stress testing program, the Federal Reserve is defending its current practices in court. That argument raises thorny legal questions about whether stress tests are more like rules or adjudications.
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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.
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