Visa pursues stablecoins for cross-border payments
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.
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.
Perficient
MARCH 25, 2025
A mid-sized bank I was consulting with for their data warehouse modernization project finally realized that data isn’t just some necessary but boring stuff the IT department hoards in their digital cave. It’s the new gold, the ticking time bomb of risk, and the bane of every regulatory report that’s ever come back with more red flags than a beach during a shark sighting.
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South State Correspondent
APRIL 9, 2025
At present, we track 150+ AI agent platforms that households and business can use right now to manage banking products. While the public is currently focused on booking travel, restaurants and events, soon they will be using agents to optimize their banking. These agents can now compare different banking products, to include researching fees, and then open an account in under ten minutes.
Abrigo
APRIL 30, 2025
6 questions & answers on how generative AI is shifting the landscape Abrigo's Director of Applied AI, Sriram Tirunellayi , shares advice and insight into AI, its role, and how it can power the future of banking. Generative AI for safer, smarter growth As a seasoned leader in data science and AI for financial services, Sriram Tirunellayi brings a practical perspective to the evolving role of artificial intelligence in banking.
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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.
Accenture: Banking
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
The use of AI in the payments industry is not a new phenomenon. In fact, Accentures recent Payments Technology Reinvention Study shows that leading banks are already investing significantly in AI and generative AI and have managed to automate 40% of manual tasks in their payments business. Advancements in speech recognition, image generation and machine The post Unlocking the value of generative AI in commercial payments appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.
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BankUnderground
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Benjamin Kingsmore Central banks do a lot of things: they implement monetary policy, regulate financial institutions, manage payment systems and analyse economic developments. Many of their tasks are crucial to the functioning of a modern economy. And to make all this happen in practice, armies of unseen officials do the necessary implementing, regulating, managing and analysing.
ABA Community Banking
JANUARY 9, 2025
The ABA Foundation offers resources for bank customers and employees on how to recover financially from disasters and on how to avoid scammers who prey on disaster victims and people seeking to donate to recovery efforts. The post Resources for banks to assist customers, employees affected by California wildfires appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.
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.
American Banker
MAY 16, 2025
Legacy payment systems won't cut it as autonomous software agents begin transacting and collaborating at scale. New payment rails that take advantage of blockchain technology will be vital in the future.
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Payments Dive
MAY 15, 2025
Financial institutions battling an increase in fraud, particularly push-payment scams, have been stymied in sharing information that might help them better protect customers.
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.
Payments Dive
MAY 14, 2025
The senator urged the Justice Department’s new antitrust czar, who's expressed concern over the creation of too-big-to-fail firms, to take action.
Payments Dive
MAY 2, 2025
The P2P payments experienced technical troubles Friday as Fiserv cited an "internal issue" that disrupted its service.
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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.
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.
Payments Dive
MAY 5, 2025
The payment processor has signed thousands of restaurants in Europe and expects to delve deeper into that business.
Payments Dive
MAY 2, 2025
The tech giant schemed to limit competition and protect its payment revenues from app developers despite the court’s 2021 order, a federal judge said.
Payments Dive
MAY 15, 2025
Meanwhile, U.S. credit card balances declined and credit card aggregate limits inched up from the prior quarter, the New York Fed said.
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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
South State Correspondent
MARCH 4, 2025
Banks face a big set of challenges ahead. To gain a competitive advantage, having an effective and efficient systematic approach that is repeatable and can be part of your bank’s culture would be helpful. In this article, we provide a five-step AI-enabled process that will help your bank with solving strategic challenges. 5S Framework Overview for Solving Strategic Challenges The “4S” problem-solving framework is largely attributed to authors Garrette, Phelps, and Sibony in the
South State Correspondent
MAY 11, 2025
During first-quarter updates, many US banks amended their expectations because of economic uncertainty and a possible business downturn. How should community banks interpret the current economic uncertainty, the possible reset to the business environment, and how should managers address risks? Economic Uncertainty We considered two bellwether indices that measure policy-related economic uncertainty.
Payments Dive
MAY 15, 2025
The Financial Technology Association will seek to protect a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau open banking rule after receiving a federal judge’s permission to intervene.
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South State Correspondent
MARCH 24, 2025
In a previous article ( HERE ) we discussed how a portfolio of commercial loans with various expected average lives resulted in different net present value (NPV) of income over a ten-year period. Our analysis shows that an average community bank can expect $9.7mm NPV of income (about 1% ROA) on a $100mm loan portfolio when the average loan life is seven years, versus only $5mm NPV of income (about 0.50% ROA) on the same portfolio where the average loan life is 2.3 years (both portfolios measured
South State Correspondent
MARCH 19, 2025
With 80+ acquisitions that make up our Bank, we have a strong collection of leaders that we have assimilated. These leaders have risen to the top of their previous organization and proven their value to the market by having a successful sale of their bank thereby quantifying the definitive value creation. They have proven to not only be a solid cultural fit for our organization but have also produced impressive results within our larger Bank.
Abrigo
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Can your AML/CFT and fraud staff recognize these fraud typologies? The technology used to perpetrate financial crimes may be changing, but these common fraud typologies aren't going anywhere. This article covers these key topics: Why familiarizing staff with fraud typologies matters Common fraud schemes Fraud risk management best practices 3 Steps financial institutions can take to prevent fraud Why familiarizing staff with fraud typologies matters in 2025 In 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investig
South State Correspondent
APRIL 2, 2025
“Liberation Day” brought a 10% baseline tax on all imports plus a 15% to 49% tariff rate on a defined set of nations (below). The move shook the markets, threatening to upend much of the architecture of the global economy and fueled broader trade wars. The recent uncertain shifts in trade policies, particularly increased tariffs on imports from China, Canada, and Mexico, have introduced specific uncertainties for community banks.
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