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5 tech trends to stay on top of wealth management services inside the bank

Mar 31, 2025

By Ram Khizamboor
AI can help answer the demands of a record inheritance transfer, intelligent automation and more.
Consumer Banking / Technology

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Trends and innovations in secure banking for 2025

Mar 28, 2025

By Brad Cranford
How to fight back against violations spanning credential stuffing, real-time payments fraud, impersonation scams, AI-generated abuses and more.
Fraud Prevention

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Why financial institutions must rethink their payments back-office first

Mar 27, 2025

By Casey Scheer
Modernize or risk falling behind as customer expectations rise and competition intensifies.
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How open finance could redefine global banking in 2025 and beyond

Aug 4, 2025

By Chad Davis
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...
Payments / Technology

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Banks can stop synthetic identity abuses by moving as fast as fraudsters

Aug 1, 2025

By Jimmy Roussel
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...
Fraud Prevention

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Agentic AI is poised to transform banking’s core functions

Jul 31, 2025

By Arvind Rao
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,...
Technology

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High-speed rails: Keeping pace with the payments evolution

Jul 30, 2025

By Rachel Koning Beals
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...
Payments

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It’s time for banks to treat SMB fraud as a priority, not an afterthought

Jul 29, 2025

By Jeff Scott
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...
Business Banking / Fraud Prevention
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We’re heading into 2025’s final months, so is this still the year of banking M&A?

Jul 28, 2025

By Amy Pierce
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...
Business Banking / Consumer Banking

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Digital asset custody: A strategic consideration for banks in the shifting crypto regulatory era

Jul 25, 2025

By John Geertsema
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...
Payments / Technology

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Why smart financial institutions treat compliance as a competitive advantage

Jul 24, 2025

By Vail Herard
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,...
Technology

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Cultivating micro-engagements can be key to banking CX

Jul 23, 2025

By Sarah Martin
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...
Customer Experience

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The hidden impact of demand deposit account statements on customer satisfaction

Jul 22, 2025

By Billy Hicks
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...
Customer Experience

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Beth McCoy on taking banking loyalty programs from afterthought to strategic advantage

Jul 18, 2025

By Beth McCoy
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...
Customer Experience

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Parlay Finance’s Alex McLeod on smartly expanding capital access for small businesses

Jul 17, 2025

By Alex McLeod
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...
Business Banking

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How smaller financial institutions can win over the next generation of wealth holders

Jul 16, 2025

By Nageswar Cherukupalli
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...
Customer Experience

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Fraud risk isn’t purely a financial issue for banks

Jul 15, 2025

By Shanthi Shanmugam
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...
Fraud Prevention

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AI-powered credit scoring: A growth strategy for regional banks

Jul 14, 2025

By Ajay Bhandari
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...
Consumer Banking / Technology

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From days to seconds: Why ALCO derivatives analysis at banks can’t wait

Jul 11, 2025

By Isaac Wheeler
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...
Risk

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Evolving fraud threats demand a layered contact center defense

Jul 10, 2025

By Rahul Kumar
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...
Fraud Prevention

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Smaller banks can tap this short list to loom large in a competitive market

Jul 8, 2025

By Centin Duransoy
This article first appeared in the May BAI Executive Report: Unlocking value through technology optimization. Find more articles within covering tech decision-making spanning CX, fraud, core updates and more. In the past couple of years, select failures of large financial institutions have...
Consumer Banking / Technology

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From predictive analytics to training data, an AI glossary for bankers

Jul 8, 2025

By Amos Welder
As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the way business and society operate, a fundamental understanding of AI is quickly becoming a prerequisite for success across various industries and job roles. That’s certainly true in banking, where the rapid proliferation of AI...
Technology

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Financial services marketing: The ultimate whole-brain discipline

Jul 7, 2025

By Abbas Merchant
Marketing is arguably the most misunderstood discipline — particularly in financial services. We all know what the CFO does: they manage the finances, optimize capital and budget allocation, and protect the bottom line. The COO: they ensure the operations run like...
Marketing & Sales

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Rethinking your bank’s digital strategy from the outside in

Jul 1, 2025

By Devesh Khare
This article first appeared in the May BAI Executive Report: Unlocking value through technology optimization. Find more articles within covering the tech decision-making spanning CX, fraud, core updates and more. Fintechs are arguably rewriting the rules of banking, so it’s...
Customer Experience