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Banking in the Next 5 Years: Video Interviews

November 15, 2016

Recipients of the 2016 FinTech Forward awards discuss how evolving technology will reshape banking in the next five years. Some of the key takeaways: Data, data, data. Huge value in data analytics for those who efficiently gather it. It will be crucial to respond to the shift occurring in the next five years toward “banking where and…

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month

November 1, 2016

In light of last week’s crippling web outage, it’s ironic to note that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has declared October Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The FFIEC hosted a webinar entitled Getting the Most Out of Your FS-ISAC Membership for financial institutions on October 31, 2016. Cybersecurity is, of course, crucial in the fraud prevention workflow, and last week’s outages…

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Top 5 Tech Innovations Your Bank Can’t Ignore—and Why

October 18, 2016

We’re excited to see that, of the Top 5 Tech Innovations Your Bank Can’t Ignored, we can actually contribute significantly to three of them! Let’s call them the “Key 3”: Continue to embrace Check 21 Leverage electronic workflows Automated tellers Part of the shared theme of the Key 3 is that the branch bank is far from obsolete. Online…

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How Will Banks React to the Blockchain?

September 13, 2016

If you’re not altogether comfortable with your grasp of what is being called the blockchain, you are not alone. Fortunately, a new book by William Mougayar called The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, And Application Of The Next Internet Technology comes to the rescue. As Banking Exchange’s Steve Cocheo points out in his article about the book, you’ll have to read…

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Bank of America: Shrinking Workforce & Fewer Branch Locations

July 19, 2016

Bank of America has 23% fewer branches and 37% fewer workers than in 2009, the bank said in a recent presentation. Further, CNNMoney reports that they plan to cut another 8,000 jobs from their consumer business over time. Digital transactions are way less expensive and keep customers happy. In fact, BofA said it costs less than a tenth…

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"Why would I drive to talk to a video screen?" Six Video Teller Mistakes to Avoid

June 28, 2016

It’s not a live-in-person teller, and it’s not an ATM. But, based on conversations I’ve had with some of my older, more set-in-their-ways relatives, it may be the only way to get certain people to make use of a “machine” to do their banking. The interactive video teller machine certainly looks like an ATM, but the remote…

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Regulators Now Demanding New Deposit Reconciliation Practices for Banks & Credit Unions

June 21, 2016

Fed. Government: “Technological and other processes exist that allow financial institutions to fully reconcile discrepancies in deposit accounts”

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Identity Theft, Bank Tellers, and Fraud

May 24, 2016

If Manhattan’s top District Attorney Cyrus Vance is to be believed, consumers may have as much — or more — to fear from bank tellers than they do from accessing their accounts online or with a mobile device.

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Report: FDIC-Insured Institutions Earn $40.8 Billion in Fourth Quarter 2015

May 20, 2016

End of the physical bank branch? Not at this rate!

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Three Branch Models Which Will Keep Physical Banks Alive.

May 10, 2016

Meredith Deen of Financial Management Solutions, Inc. (FMSI) thinks there is still life in the traditional bank branch.

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