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83% of Financial Pros Feel that AI is Important to Company’s Success

August 4, 2021

Kevin Levitt, Global Business Development, Financial Services, NVIDIA, has an excellent post at Finextra.com examining the prevalence — and importance — of Artificial Intelligence adoption in fintechs, investment firms, and consumer banks.

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OrboNation Newsletter: Check Processing Edition – July 2021

July 30, 2021

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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Walmart: Taking On Banks For Consumer Business

July 29, 2021

Wal-Mart — already equipped with its own credit and debit/prepaid cards — has in recent months partnered with Ribbit Capital to start a fintech. Payments Journal reports that they are also looking at more financial services offerings via a branded all-purpose mobile app. Wal-Mart certainly has the audience to compete with banks. As reported in Barron’s:

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Rise of the Machines — Interactive Teller Machines (ITMs), That Is…

July 21, 2021

No, this is not a scene from a sci-fi action movie starring the immortal Arnold Schwarzenegger. As far as we know, there is no “Skynet” that has developed an artificial intelligence with the motive of eradicating all human life.

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A Look Inside the New FFIEC Information Technology Examination Handbook

July 15, 2021

The Architecture, Infrastructure, and Operations Booklet is one in a series of booklets that compose the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) Information Technology Examination Handbook (IT Handbook), prepared for use by examiners. As described at the FFIEC website: With the publication of this booklet, the FFIEC member agencies replace the “Operations” booklet issued in July 2004.…

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Building a Platform Requires AI Diversity & Partnership

July 8, 2021

Artificial Intelligence can be a dizzying technology to understand. While the term gets tossed around everywhere you turn, it’s important for financial institutions to have a strong baseline of knowledge on the different types of AI, in order to better leverage the technology.

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A Real Life Innovation Lab Story at Royal Bank of Canada

July 1, 2021

Recently, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has taken an approach similar to that of OrboGraph’s OrbNet AI Innovation Lab to bring AI technology to the financial industry; partnering with NVIDIA and Red Hat to create Borealis AI. But what is Borealis AI? And what do they do? Well, Borealis AI describes themselves as: A world-class AI research…

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OrboNation Newsletter: Check Processing Edition – June 2021

June 29, 2021

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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The New Standard: AI and GPU White Paper

June 24, 2021

As a subscriber to the OrboNation Blog, you have undoubtedly seen articles involving Artificial Intelligence (AI) and GPUs and how this combination of breakthrough technologies are part of the future for banking. The adoption of GPU hardware is enabling the combination of a “New Standard” for solving the difficult problems of the industry in many…

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Enhancing the Value of Existing Bank Branches as Customer Visits Increase

June 18, 2021

With “never go to a bank” Millennials becoming a bigger and bigger market force, compounded by the fact that pandemic lock-downs have encouraged even formerly tech-averse people to use online banking tools, one might think the reign of the bank and credit union physical, walk-in branch system is coming to a close.

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