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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:

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.

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…

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.

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…

News Release: OrboGraph Completes Market Launch of OrbNet Forensic AI

June 7, 2021

Billerica, MA, June 7, 2021 – OrboGraph, a premier developer and supplier of intelligent electronic and paper automation for check fraud detection, recognition solutions as well as healthcare payment electronification, announced the market launch of OrbNet Forensic AI as the core image analysis technology to the Anywhere Fraud software application version 4.1. Details are now available on recently modernized company’s website, www.orbograph.com.

Credit Unions Bring Digital Technology To Customer-Centric Strategy

June 3, 2021

Credit Unions and their members tend to pride themselves — rightfully so — on being much more “customer-centric” than the average financial institution. They are, after all, serving “members,” and that spirit permeates their approach in all aspects of their business. The relationship has become, in fact, a differentiator that draws (and keeps) loyal members on a long-term basis.

2021 AI Index Report Reveals Light-Speed Innovations

May 20, 2021

Stanford University’s 2021 AI Index Report is now available, and it goes into significant detail regarding Computer Vision, which is integral to the sorts of recognition tasks important in fraud detection and EOB processing.

71% Call Check Deposit Critical or Important for Mobile Banking Capabilities

May 6, 2021

Forbes took a look at new research from Cornerstone Advisors and found that that more than three-quarters of Americans who have a smartphone are now mobile banking users. Mobile banking adoption is approaching ubiquity among Gen Zers and Millennials (ages 21 to 40) with 88% of each of the two generations accessing their bank accounts using a mobile device. The adoption rate dips just a bit to 78% among Gen Xers (41 to 55 years old), and then drops to 57% of Baby Boomers and 41% of smartphone-owning Seniors.

AdvicePay Introduces Mobile Check Deposit For Enterprise Customers

April 21, 2021

Close on the heels of Venmo’s new check-cashing service for their mobile app, “Cash a Check,” fee-payment processing platform AdvicePay — which is designed specifically for financial advisors — rolled out a new mobile check deposit feature for large businesses, according to their mid-March announcement. This is great news for financial advisors and the like;…