October 2024

Pathward Financial Exec on How To Do Banking as a Service

Anthony Sharett, president at Pathward Financial, reflects on the bank’s two decades in banking as a service and discusses how the institution prepares for tech-driven growth.

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How to Remove $1 Trillion of Checks From the Economy

Shai Stern, CEO of CheckAlt, joins Reinventing Banking to talk about why checks persist in an era of digital payments and how technology can help financial institutions target a major reason why they issue checks.  

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Financial Institutions Explore AI Uses Without AI Policies

Artificial intelligence use cases are exploding within banking, even as a majority of respondents in Bank Director’s 2024 Technology Survey said their institution lacked AI use policies.

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Why – and How – Financial Institutions Should Measure Their Tech ROI

Measuring return on investment can help financial institutions monitor whether pricey technology is fulfilling its purpose — but in a recent survey, many report not doing it.

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Could Open Banking Be Good for Small Institutions?

Phishing awareness training is a critical component of any cybersecurity program, but most financial institutions can do a better job of creating engaging education for their employees.

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2024 Technology Survey: Envisioning Your Bank's Future

Bank Director’s 2024 Technology Survey gauges how bank leaders are thinking about strategy and resources, emerging technologies and fraud.

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The Deal on Fintechs provides a monthly snapshot of movement within the financial industry. Below is a list of last month's fintech and bank acquisitions as well as IPOs linked to source material for more information.

FINTECHS

IPOS

There were no IPOs in the month of September.