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Aug 4, 2025

Open finance is arguably reshaping global financial services as we know it—expanding rapidly beyond traditional regulatory mandates into a powerful market-driven paradigm. Financial institutions are already increasingly leveraging open ecosystems, APIs, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to seamlessly embed financial capabilities...

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Aug 1, 2025

By the time you finish reading this paragraph, a new synthetic identity may have just been created and approved by a financial institution somewhere in the world. Powered by generative AI, identity fraud is no longer a slow-moving threat. It’s...

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Jul 31, 2025

The broader financial services space, including banking, is experiencing a significant shift due to rapid advancements in AI. A particularly impactful innovation is agentic AI, which offers a new level of autonomy compared to traditional automation. In contrast to conventional systems,...

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Jul 30, 2025

I set out to write the introduction to the July BAI Executive Report: Keeping pace with the payments evolution, knowing that the payments space across financial services, retail and elsewhere is evolving with enough speed there’s a real chance...

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Jul 29, 2025

Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), the backbone of the U.S. economy, are increasingly susceptible to fraud. As this issue gains more national attention, owed in part to legislative and regulatory attention on scams, loan-abuse vulnerability, and other issues, banks have...
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Jul 28, 2025

Is 2025 on track to be the biggest year for M&A activity? That’s a big topic of debate right now. The rapid changes to U.S. policies created M&A hesitation earlier this year. However, activity has been consistently rising for the last...

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Jul 25, 2025

In a financial services landscape increasingly shaped by technological convergence and generational shifts in investor and broader financial behavior, the conversation around digital assets, including cryptocurrency, has evolved. No longer relegated to speculative trading or niche financial circles, digital assets have...

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Jul 24, 2025

Regulation can be perceived as a burden, especially in industries that require managing evolving anti-money laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) rules. But what if we’ve been thinking about it all wrong? While regulation is often seen as a constraint,...

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Jul 23, 2025

Here’s the next installment in our periodic Q&A series highlighting women leaders in the fintech and banking space. We feature the innovation, fortitude and experience it takes to thrive in this fast-changing industry. And our interviews explore business opportunities on...

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Jul 22, 2025

Demand Deposit Account (DDA) statements may seem like a routine part of banking operations, but their impact on customer satisfaction and trust is far greater than many financial institutions realize. A well-designed statement can enhance transparency, improve customer experience and even...

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Jul 18, 2025

Here’s the next installment in our periodic Q&A series highlighting women leaders in the fintech and banking space. We feature the innovation, fortitude and experience it takes to thrive in this fast-changing industry. And our interviews explore business opportunities on...

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Jul 17, 2025

Here’s the next installment in our periodic Q&A series highlighting women leaders in the fintech and banking space. We feature the innovation, fortitude and experience it takes to thrive in this fast-changing industry. And our interviews explore business opportunities on...

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Jul 17, 2025

To learn more on how to protect your financial services organization during deregulation, download BAI’s “Ways Organizations can Protect Themselves During Deregulation” article today!...

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Jul 17, 2025

In this article, BAI lists the top risks to BSA with information on how it can affect businesses and their customers and what activities should be flagged as potential criminal activity. To learn more on how to address BSA...

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Jul 16, 2025

Starting now and spanning the next few decades, we will witness the largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history, termed “The Great Wealth Transfer.” This shift is poised to transform the global financial sector, including how wealth is managed, invested...

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Jul 15, 2025

Fraud has long been a challenge in the financial sector, but today’s environment presents unprecedented risks. Record-high transaction volumes and a surge in first-party fraud are putting immense pressure on banks to do more with fewer resources, especially when it...

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Jul 14, 2025

When one Arizona credit union sought to personalize their loan experience and grow membership, it began by exploring artificial intelligence (AI). The goal: improve the accuracy of credit decisioning to automate the credit worthiness of 70%-80% of their consumer applicants. Through...

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Jul 14, 2025

BAI spoke with thought leaders within the financial services industry to explore the latest on the deposit landscape. Learn more about how these industry leaders are bolstering healthier deposit growth and retention in this BAI Special Report....

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Jul 11, 2025

Asset-liability committees (ALCOs) operate at the center of a bank's most critical decisions: funding strategy, interest rate risk and capital management. Yet when derivatives analysis and hedging decisions are trapped in multi-day workflows, ALCOs face a fundamental mismatch. Markets move...

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Jul 10, 2025

Fraud attacks on call centers are on the rise, with growth particularly significant in the financial services industry. For example, nearly two-thirds of financial‑industry respondents said that most account takeovers originate in call centers, according to a report from TransUnion. Criminals...

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Jul 10, 2025

In our July BAI Executive Report: Keeping pace with the payments evolution, we hear from banking thought leaders who examine the consumer habits urging ever faster adoption of the new ways we all transact daily....