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Kiplinger Lists “The Best Bank for You, 2019”

July 10, 2019

In the third annual edition of its “The Best Bank for You” report, Kiplinger identifies top picks among national, regional, and internet banks, as well as credit unions, that offer the best combination of high rates, low fees, and a customer-friendly focus. Many of these institutions are customers of OrboGraph, so it’s is great to…

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8 Percent of Payments Fraud Is Linked to Terrorism

July 2, 2019

An article from Digital Transactions finally quantifies the relationship between payments fraud and terrorism! Startling facts in this report show that, outside of pure fraud losses, there is a crucial national security component to fraud prevention. Information-security firm Terbium Labs, in its “The Next Generation of Criminal Financing: How Payment Fraud Funds Transnational Crime” report,…

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AI: Safeguarding Privacy and Ethics

June 26, 2019

For all the upbeat and optimistic talk about Artificial Intelligence and its emerging role in the banking industry (not to mention healthcare), it’s certainly well worth taking the time to examine the issues of ethics and privacy as they relate to deployment of these new tools. David Lott, a payments risk expert in the Retail…

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AI: MIA In Most FI Fraud Departments?

June 18, 2019

PYMNTS.COM takes a look at the implementation of Artificial Intelligence solutions in Financial Institution fraud departments — or, rather, the stunning lack thereof: AI systems are unique, can process large volumes of data in real time and can “learn” to quickly identify suspicious financial activity. Yet, few FIs leverage this technology in their anti-fraud efforts…

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Banking the Under-Banked: Banks vs. Check Cashers (MSBs)

April 23, 2019

A Special Guest Host Blog Post by Bob Frimet, CAMS Millions of Americans depend on banking services each and every day, for everything from writing checks and paying bills to wiring money. But when was the last time you thought about the millions of “under-banked”? Where does that customer go? There are many reasons why…

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JP Morgan’s Dimon: “We Are Using AI and Machine Learning Techniques”

April 9, 2019

Pymnts.com reports on JP Morgan Jamie Dimon’s latest shareholder letter (which appeared on April 4) noting that AI and Machine Learning are mentioned prominently. Why is this important? Dimon’s shareholder letters are closely read and parsed for nuggets of insight regarding the economy, the investment climate, and even revelations about America’s standing in the world.…

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A Biomedical Use Case For AI & Deep Learning

April 4, 2019

Let’s face it — even as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions become more and more mainstream and attainable, they are multi-layered concepts that are not entirely intuitive. For the lay person, it could be about as close to trying to understand rocket science as we can get… (present company included!) A McKinsey Quarterly…

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SNL “Cheques” Parody Shows Checks are Alive and, Well…

April 2, 2019

Saturday Night Live debuted in 1975, meaning that if you were a member of the generation that watched the first seasons of the show, you’re in “the demographic that clings to checks.” according to the pundits. This past weekend, SNL enlightened viewers as to a few exaggerated benefits of “cheques” that we normally don’t promote…

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New Report: FIS Code Connect Named “Most Advanced API Strategy”

March 27, 2019

FIS was recently recognized by leading industry research and advisory firm Aite Group for its Code Connect application programming interface (API) gateway, naming it “Most Advanced API Strategy” in a newly released report. FisGlobal.com noted in an article: Code Connect provides a growing, constantly updated hub of APIs from both FIS and third-party developers for…

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Today’s “One-Shot” Customer Service Opportunity in the Bank Branch

Credit Unions and Community Banks: On Their Last Legs? Not Quite Yet

March 19, 2019

The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article headlined “The Problem for Small Town Banks: People Want High-Tech Services.” The gist of the article (available to subscribers only, alas) is that consumers in search of higher-tech interactions with financial institutions are bypassing smaller community banks in favor of “larger lenders offering online transactions.” The small…

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