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Australia Announces End of Cheques by 2030… Will History Repeat Itself?

June 15, 2023

For many, many years we’ve heard about the “imminent extinction of the check” — and, in the meantime, it remains a much-used payment vehicle. Predictions of the demise of checks from industry pundits have remained largely overblown, as 13B checks were written in 2022. But this is just for the United States. An article at…

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AI in Banking: Google Making Headway

June 8, 2023

JLL’s new 2023 Banking and Finance Outlook indicates that banks and financial services companies are “prioritizing and strengthening their investments in technology to increase speed, resiliency and drive cost efficiency.” In their immediate sights is development of artificial intelligence solutions. These companies are anticipated to spend an additional $31 billion worldwide by 2025 on artificial intelligence (AI),…

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Nvidia’s Market Cap Reaches $1 Trillion, Demonstrating Importance of GPUs in Banking

June 1, 2023

Yahoo Finance reports that, this past Tuesday, Nvidia (NVDA) — founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem — recorded a landmark achievement in becoming the first chipmaker ever to reach a market valuation of $1 trillion. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker became the ninth public company to ever hit the $1…

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OrboNation Newsletter: Check Processing and Fraud – May 2023

May 26, 2023

In case you missed it, over the past month, we have published incredible content on our OrboNation Blog and Modernizing Omnichannel Check Fraud Detection. Review the latest OrboNation Newsletter online or via PDF download.

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AI Tech for Community Banks and Credit Unions: Fintech Vendors Must Step Up

May 25, 2023

Many people in today’s financial services industry applaud the emergence of AI technology as an excellent equalizer for financial institutions, allowing community banks and credit unions a level of parity with their larger competitors. After all, it’s just a matter of recognizing and embracing the emerging AI technology, right? It turns out things are not…

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Legacy Thinking: How Banks Can Learn From Major League Baseball

May 18, 2023

If you’re a sports fan, you are undoubtedly familiar with the four major sports leagues in the US: Major League Baseball (MLB) The National Football League (NFL) The National Basketball Association (NBA) The National Hockey League (NHL) You may be asking yourself, “What do sports have to do with banking?” Well, it turns out there’s…

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Forrester Research: 77% of Banks Execs Will Invest in Emerging Technologies in 2023

May 4, 2023

Forrester reports that, according to their Future Fit Survey, 2022, a whopping 77% of bank business and technology professionals are looking to increase their spending on emerging technologies over the next twelve months. Emerging technologies could mean the difference between gaining, retaining, or losing competitive differentiation. Yet failure remains commonplace. Only a quarter of business and…

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OrboNation Newsletter: Check Processing and Fraud – April 2023

April 28, 2023

In case you missed it, over the past month, we have published incredible content on our OrboNation Blog and Modernizing Omnichannel Check Fraud Detection. Review the latest OrboNation Newsletter online or via PDF download.

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FedNow Real-Time Payments: The Effects on Checks

April 27, 2023

Other developed countries have had it for years, but the United States is a Johnny-Come-Lately to RTP, or Real Time Payments. The Federal Reserve recently confirmed that FedNow, the government’s version of real-time payments (RTP), will launch this summer. In a piece for Forbes Magazine, Ron Shevlin, Chief Research Officer at Cornerstone Advisors, points out…

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Achieving Next-Gen Legacy Modernization: Focus on Productivity

April 13, 2023

McKinsey Digital weighs in with suggestions for how banks can modernize legacy systems to help them reduce IT costs and complexity while improving productivity in a competitive environment. Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, persistently low interest rates had increased pressure on banks to reduce their IT costs. The pandemic exacerbated this issue,…

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