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BAI Banking Strategies looks forward to the new year with a podcast which includes a list of recommended strategies for bank branches. Their recommendations include: Fix your distribution strategy Become a data nerd Learn to use robotics and AI Partner with fintechs Invest in front-line tools Meanwhile, Bank News has advice for community bank branches…
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Our own Vice President of Marketing, Joe Gregory, is featured in an article in Banking CIO Outlook magazine (you can read the story here). OrboGraph is proud to be featured as one of Banking CIO Outlook’s Top 10 KYC Solution Providers for 2018. Gregory notes that OrboGraph’s embrace of AI and Deep Learning technologies provides…
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The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Venmo sustained a transaction loss rate of 0.40% in March, up from 0.25% in January, according to internal PayPal documents they reviewed. As reported in Digital Transactions: The losses sent Venmo’s first-quarter operating loss to approximately $40 million, a 40% increase over what PayPal had expected, the documents revealed.…
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Bob Legters of American Banker goes out on a limb and makes the following predictions for the new year. Visit the link for his expansion of each prediction. Legters begins with specifying things he thinks we won’t see in 2019, followed by developments he believes will come to fruition before year’s end. How many do…
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The Federal Reserve, following through on plans disclosed earlier this year, formally unveiled the U.S. Faster Payments Council, an industry group charged with collaborating to spur the adoption of faster payments and identify market opportunities. According to DigitalTransactions.net: The 22 inaugural members range from retailing giant Walmart Inc. to Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. to…
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Fortune Magazine is not sold on chip-enables credit cards as the fraud-stopper the tech promised. New chip-enabled credit cards, which were rolled out to U.S. consumers starting in 2015, were supposed to put an end to rampant credit card fraud. So much for that. A new report from the research firm Gemini Advisory has…
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The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) reports in its annual study of payments fraud risks and realities that nearly 8 in 10 U.S. organizations were targets of payments fraud in 2017. What’s the best way to protect your organization? US Bank has some solid tips: Provide comprehensive training: All employees should receive training to help them…
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BankNews.com reports on a study that lends considerable weight to the concept of upgrading technology in the retail bank space: According to the 2018 Payments Industry Report from Sydney, Australia-based Accuity, the majority of financial institutions and payments providers provide customers with the validation of key payments data elements prior to remittance, and many have…
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PYMNTS.com reports on the Federal Reserve’s efforts to gather input on making payments faster across all channels. Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said, in remarks made on Oct. 3rd., that the Federal Reserve’s infrastructure underpinning payments could use a bit of modernization in a bid to support fast payments “for all.” Brainard, speaking in Chicago at the Fed…
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Persons who are older than 30 may feel the urge to gloat about this: Millennials – – the cohort, according to the Pew Research Center, born between the years 1981 and 1996, and who watch with glee as older folks struggle with social media and Ubers – – are currently the primary target when it…
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