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Amex bets on millennials, Gen Z for growth

Payments Dive

As it pursues younger consumers, the company is angling to ensure its high-fee cards offer enough value for millennials and Gen Zers.

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The great deposit shakeout is on: How will it end?

American Banker

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How to Build a Payment Test Automation Strategy for 2023

ATM Marketplace

Automated testing helps to identify and resolve issues faster and more efficiently, leading to improved user experience and increased customer satisfaction.

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Learn How To Start Fix And Flip Loans No Money Down

Commercial Lending USA

fix and flip loans no money down have become popular with investors because they allow you to use someone else's money to fund your project. That's right.

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The Executive Guide to Generative AI

Generative AI is taking the world by storm, but the questions that all CEOs, data leaders, and AI leaders are being asked are: What are we going to do about it, and what is our plan? The business and creative possibilities are practically limitless with generative AI. From productivity gains to finding new routes to revenue generation, generative AI is going to radically transform how we work.

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Payments players caught in SVB fallout

Payments Dive

As the banking crisis spread, payments players, such as FIS, and venture-backed firms, including Payoneer, were caught in the contagion.

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Silicon Valley Bank Failure – Lessons in Interest Rate Risk Management

South State Correspondent

The abrupt collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a stunning example of bank leadership not understanding interest rate risk, running into trouble with an inverted yield curve, and ignoring the impact of a severe monetary correction on long-duration assets. There will be much more discussion and information written on this bank’s collapse, as well as the shutdown of Signature Bank and the story about Sterling Bank, and perhaps others in the weeks and months to follow.

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Q1-2 2023 Economic Outlook: Industry Stability following Bank Failures

SWBC's LenderHub

As we have been saying for several of our previous quarterly economic updates, as inflation goes, so goes the U.S. economy. A quick and rapid descent of inflation will take pressure off the Fed to continue raising rates and the possibility of a soft landing improves. The longer inflation remains elevated, the more aggressively the Fed will have to act, likely triggering a recession.

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Visa, Mastercard depict bank failure impact

Payments Dive

As bank card issuers faltered this past weekend, the card networks monitored payments closely, Visa and Mastercard executives said at a conference.

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Client Remediation – Running the Program (Part 2 of 3)

Perficient

In our first blog in this series, Getting Started With Client Remediation (Part 1 of 3) , we discussed how to get a client remediation program started, what levels of the organization should be involved in client remediation programs, and how ultimately good things, such as lower risks, improved technology, and risk monitoring, may result from a successful client remediation program.

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8 Sins of a Manual Reconciliation

Speaker: Nancy Wu, Head of Sales and Customer Success at SkyStem

Business operations are getting increasingly complex, shareholders are demanding more, and your auditors are breathing down your neck like never before. In this high-pressure environment, it’s important to remember that reconciliation activity is your last line of defense against financial fraud and errors. Insisting on a manual process to handle month-end reconciliations is a risky endeavor that places an undue burden on your accounting team.

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The Current Banking Crisis – 10 Not So Apparent Lessons

South State Correspondent

It turns out that confidence is more valuable than capital. While we wrote about the root cause of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) HERE , the lessons of the current banking crisis go beyond interest rate risk management. While interest rate risk caused the most significant impact on value, several other factors contributed to the terminality of each bank that was closed.

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GAO issues report on fintech products; recommends CFPB clarify when earned wage access products are “credit” under Truth in Lending Act

CFPB Monitor

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a new report entitled “Financial Technology: Products Have Benefits and Risks to Underserved Consumers, and Regulatory Clarity Is Needed.” The report focuses on the following four types of fintech products: Digital deposit accounts offered by fintech companies through partnerships with banks or credit unions. .

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Fed aims for late end of launch period

Payments Dive

The central bank is targeting July, as opposed to the earlier end of its prior range, for starting its new real-time payments service.

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What's the deal with cash recycling?

ATM Marketplace

In a world of increasing competition for customers with neobanks and major staffing challenges at the branch level, banks need to find ways to reduce costs. One method gaining popularity is cash recycling.

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A Modern Approach to C&I Lending: 8 Facts Lenders Need to Know

What to expect? The commercial and industrial (C&I) lending sector has been undergoing a transformation in recent years thanks to technological advancements and changes in customer expectations. The traditional way of lending, where commercial lenders relied on manual attorney processes and legacy software solutions, is slowly becoming obsolete.

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Silicon Valley Bank chief pressed Congress to weaken risk regulations

TheGuardian

CEO Greg Becker personally led the bank’s half-million-dollar push to reduce scrutiny of his institution – and lawmakers obliged This story was first published in the Lever Eight years before the second-largest bank failure in American history occurred this week, the bank’s president personally pressed Congress to reduce scrutiny of his financial institution, citing the “low risk profile of our activities and business model”, according to federal records reviewed by the Lever.

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“Life takes Visa” but debt collectors don’t? New debt repayment rules are coming for collection agencies on April 15, 2023

CFPB Monitor

Move over, Tax Day! This year, April 15 falls on a Saturday so the IRS moved the tax filing deadline to April 18. What will you do with all that extra time? Don’t worry, Visa’s got you covered. Visa recently notified its business network that new rules for debt repayment are coming on April 15, 2023. .

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Fiserv, Jack Henry CEOs react to bank crisis

Payments Dive

Payments processors’ CEOs this week described how their companies were affected by the recent bank industry turmoil, downplaying the impact.

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SVB, Signature Bank collapse raises questions

ATM Marketplace

The collapse of SVB and Signature Bank have raised questions about the economy, the banking system, cryptocurrency and how banks should respond.

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You Put in a Full Work Week. Shouldn’t Your Collections Software Do the Same?

Discover a modern, cloud-based collection system that never takes a rest day. MeridianLink® Collect is an intuitive platform with advanced customization options developed to simplify the collections process. Here are four ways MeridianLink Collect can support your team: Omnichannel communications Compliance rules & checklists Workflows & queues One interface with supporting integrations And that’s just the start.

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Fintech Enablement’s Role in Modernizing Legacy Systems

BankInovation

As core legacy systems become inefficient, slow, and unable to keep up with present day customer expectations, more and more financial institutions are facing the same question: how do we modernize these systems without the high costs and long turnover time? The answer is fintech enablement.

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Claims Automation for Health Plans: Transformation with a Small “t”

FICO

Home Blog FICO Claims Automation for Health Plans: Transformation with a Small “t” By focusing on transformation with a small “t” that addresses measurable performance gaps, health plans and administrators can use claims automation to control costs and risk FICO Admin Tue, 07/02/2019 - 02:45 by Paul Crowder expand_less Back To Top Tue, 03/14/2023 - 14:15 Some time ago, I witnessed a plea for help in a global healthcare summit from a Director of Claims Management for assistance in automating thei

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Payments execs detail SVB impact

Payments Dive

The Silicon Valley Bank downfall that sent shockwaves through the financial industry forced fintechs, such as Affirm and Marqeta, to react fast.

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2023 Kiosk Marketplace Census Report

ATM Marketplace

The self-serve kiosk industry pushed forward in a big way in 2022, as the recovery from the pandemic continued for the second straight year. A convergence of factors took hold: rising consumer acceptance of self service, a recovering supply chain, a growing labor shortage, improving technology, and the return of industry trade shows.

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The Forrester Wave™: AI/ML Platforms: Vendor Strategy, Market Presence, and Capabilities Overview

As enterprises evolve their AI from pilot programs to an integral part of their tech strategy, the scope of AI expands from core data science teams to business, software development, enterprise architecture, and IT ops teams. Enterprises need a platform that can make broader AI teams more productive, implementing more complex use cases and harnessing the fast pace of new AI technologies.

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Credit Suisse hit by legal action from US investors amid banking turmoil

TheGuardian

Complaint claims bank made ‘materially false and misleading statements’ in 2021 annual report Business live – latest updates How to understand Credit Suisse, SVB and fears of a new crisis US investors in Credit Suisse have hit the beleaguered Swiss bank with legal action, claiming that it overstated its prospects before this week’s shares crash. The lender suffered a rapid sell-off, with shares plunging on Wednesday by as much as 30% at one point after comments from Credit Suisse’s largest share

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Consumer Advocates Take Aim at Chamber’s New Mass Arbitration Report

CFPB Monitor

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s recent publication of an 80-page report titled “ Mass Arbitration Shakedown: Coercing Unjustified Settlements ” has fanned the flames on an already heated debate between consumer advocates and industry lawyers over the propriety of mass arbitrations. We have addressed mass arbitration issues and potential defenses extensively in our prior blogs.

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BNPL firms snag consumers at checkout: J.D. Power

Payments Dive

As buy now, pay later use rises, consumers are learning about the payment option at checkout, more so than from social media or family and friends.

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CUNA GAC 2023, The Largest Advocacy Event for Credit Unions

William Mills

I recently had the opportunity to attend Credit Union National Association’s (CUNA) Governmental Affairs Conference (GAC) in Washington, D.C. The event is the credit union industry’s premier event bringing together leaders from across the movement to rally around a united case – to tell policymakers how their lawmaking affects credit unions and their more than 130 million members.

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Chit Chat: Elevating the Month-End Close Process Through Automation – Lancaster Leaf

Speaker: Raul Perez, VP and CFO of Lancaster Leaf

Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Co Inc. is a subsidiary of Universal Corporation, the leading global leaf tobacco supplier. Lancaster Leaf supplies virtually all the major cigar manufacturers in the U.S. with filler, binder, and wrapper, and exports filler, binder, and wrapper to international cigar manufacturers. This all could mean a complicated month-end close - before automation.