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Usage-based pricing: Achieve growth with value-added payment services

Accenture

Interest rates and inflation are on everyone’s minds. Cost-conscious customers want to see value for their money and don’t want to pay for what they don’t use. Companies, in turn, are looking to better align their pricing with costs. Even as budgets tighten, they want to attract new customers, reduce churn and boost revenue. The… The post Usage-based pricing: Achieve growth with value-added payment services appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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Top 5 Hard Money Construction Lenders

Commercial Lending USA

Do you need to start your construction project quickly? Lenders who come from the past can be slow and strict.

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How U.S. Bank climbed to the top in mobile app customer satisfaction

American Banker

In recent surveys conducted by Javelin Strategy & Research and Insider Intelligence, consumers gave the bank's app high marks. Many small-seeming improvements explain the ascent.

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Mastercard update travelers on latest card precautions

Payments Dive

With summer vacation season in full swing, the card network suggested ways that its card clients can better protect themselves against the latest fraud threats.

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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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Maintaining Digital Compliance with the PCI DSS 4.0

Cisco

Cisco plays a pivotal role in the evolution and implementation of the PCI DSS 4.0.1 standards, offering a suite of compliant products and advisory expertise to assist customers in navigating the significant security updates and phased rollout through March 2025.

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Disused Lloyds office sites to be converted into social housing

TheGuardian

Exclusive: Bank launches project by selling Pudsey site as CEO says Labour’s commitment to sector is ‘clearer’ than last government’s Lloyds Banking Group will start converting its disused office sites into social housing, as the UK’s largest mortgage provider lays the groundwork for a fresh housebuilding boom after Labour’s election win. The bank, which started reviewing its property portfolio during the Covid lockdown in 2020, is launching the programme with a decommissioned data and office sp

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CFO shuffle continues as Webster, Eastern name new finance chiefs

American Banker

Two Northeast banks will get new CFOs next month. Webster Financial hired Neal Holland, the former CFO of the failed First Republic Bank, and Eastern Bankshares hired David Rosato, who left Berkshire Hills Bancorp last month.

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Alacriti and Lumin Digital partner for real-time payments

The Paypers

US-based digital payments fintech Alacriti has integrated Orbipay money movement services into Lumin Digital ’s platform to offer instant A2A transfers and digital loan payments.

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Futures under stress: how did gilt futures behave in the LDI crisis?

BankUnderground

Joel Mundy and Matt Roberts-Sklar When markets are volatile, liquidity tends to worsen. This makes it harder to intermediate buyers and sellers. We saw this during the 2022 liability-driven investment (LDI) stress, when the UK government bond (gilt) market exhibited extreme volatility. This illiquidity was also evident in gilt futures, derivatives that support functioning in the cash gilt market.

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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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FedNow zooms past RTP participation in inaugural year

Payments Dive

The Federal Reserve’s nascent instant payments system has collected hundreds of bank participants across the country in its first year of operations, although a few major banks are holdouts.

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Driving the Future of Wealth Management

Perficient

Wealth management is evolving rapidly, driven by generational shifts, changing advisor roles, new business models, regulatory demands, and a growing preference for low-cost passive products. In response to these changes, our fintech client partnered with one of the world’s largest financial institutions to develop a next-generation, open-source, front-to-back wealth management platform.

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9 Steps to Kill Checks and Check Processing

South State Correspondent

Sometime soon, one of the banks reading this will likely be the last bank to handle paper checks. Last week’s announcement that Target, one of the nation’s largest retailers, will not take personal checks past July 15 th has made bankers take notice. Target joins Whole Foods, Aldi, and Lululemon as major retailers that have found that checks eat up too much margin.

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Positive pay systems: Pros and cons for FIs

Abrigo

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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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Discover to sell student loan portfolio to Carlyle, KKR in $10.8B deal

Payments Dive

The student loan sale is the latest loose end Discover seeks to tie up since Capital One announced its intent to purchase the card company.

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Bank of America, JPM, TD and Visa affected by global CrowdStrike outages

BankInovation

Banks, airlines and other organizations using Microsoft have reported down systems across the globe as cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike is suffering from the biggest IT outage in history.

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Community Bank Loan Performance Analysis

South State Correspondent

We conducted a loan performance analysis for over 5,000 individual hedged commercial loans originated by almost 400 community and regional banks across the country. We measured prepayment speeds, loan size, loan term, fee income, loan yield, credit performance, and return on equity (ROE) of hedged loans and compared this performance to community bank industry averages.

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Boardroom Focus: Communications Compliance

Cisco

Cisco Webex in collaboration with a partner provides a compliance and security solution tailored for digital communications within the Webex Suite, serving major organizations like top North American banks.

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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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Opponents of Capital One-Discover merger to air grievances

Payments Dive

Consumer advocates say the merger will stifle competition and give the combined company an easy avenue to raise fees on card payments.

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KeyBank spends $800M on tech annually

BankInovation

KeyBank spends $800 million annually on technology and expects expenses to grow in 2025 as it continues to invest in overall operations.

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ATM fraud: How to combat it

ATM Marketplace

ATM fraud continues to be a global problem, with criminals choosing to strike wherever the money is and wherever they find vulnerabilities to exploit. Here are a few ways to prevent it.

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Goldman Sachs raises banker pay and bonuses after 150% surge in quarterly profit

TheGuardian

Wall Street firm says it spent $4.2bn on compensation and benefits for its 45,300 staff in the three months to June Goldman Sachs has increased banker pay including bonuses by 17% after profits more than doubled in the second quarter, following a rebound in dealmaking. The Wall Street firm said it spent $4.2bn (£3.2bn) on compensation and benefits for its 45,300 staff in the three months to June, up almost a fifth from the same period last year.

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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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Prepaid card spending accelerates

Payments Dive

The rise of digital wallets hasn't dampened prepaid card use, including the payroll cards some employers use to pay their workers.

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CFPB proposes earned wage access rule

BankInovation

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed an interpretive rule affecting earned wage products, or paycheck advance products, ensuring that employees are aware of costs and fees for these services, according to today’s CFPB release. Paycheck advance products allow employees real-time access to earned wages.

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Liberty Bank embraces tech for 200th anniversary

ATM Marketplace

As it approaches its 200th anniversary, Liberty Bank is embracing major technological changes and investigating others.

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Financial Wellness as a Profit Center for Financial Institutions

Jeff For Banks

So many financial institutions list "financial literacy" or customer "financial wellness" as one of their higher purposes. Which makes immeasurable sense given how defined benefit pension plans are now the exception and households are left to fend for themselves when it comes to their own financial wellness. And by objective measures they are not doing too well.

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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.