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The Definitive Source for Insights and News Surrounding Automation in Financial Services. Formerly Bank Innovation, since 2009 Bank Automation News has been at the forefront of tracking the evolution of digital banking. With the future of innovation pointing to opportunities in automation, we have transitioned the focus of our coverage to continue to provide insights and information that guide..
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Discover Financial Services is looking to AI to help boost its coding and robotic process automation efforts. When implementing robotic process automation (RPA), “you don’t just say, all right we have automation, we’re done. … Because there are always opportunities to improve,” David Lyons, intelligent automation program manager at Discover Financial Services, said March 18 ..read more
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Ally Financial named a new chief executive today, ending a three-month search. Michael Rhodes will take the reins of the bank April 29 and become a member of the board, according to an Ally release. Prior to joining Ally, Rhodes served as CEO of Discover Financial Services, which Capital One announced plans to acquire last month. He has 25 ..read more
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Technology provider nCino is looking to create a single platform in the cloud that offers deposits, business loans and personal loans, while meeting regulatory demands and increasing overall efficiency. With that effort in mind, nCino on March 18 announced its $75 million acquisition of DocFox to eliminate paperwork and reduce overall onboarding time — a ..read more
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Swindon, U.K.-based Nationwide Group has offered to acquire U.K.-based financial institution Virgin Money for 2.9 billion pounds ($3.7 billion) in cash, according to a March 21 Nationwide release. The acquisition, which must be approved by the Financial Conduct Authority, would help Nationwide grow its customer base, deposits and operations organically, the release stated. The acquisition of ..read more
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Visa Inc. is adding three new AI-powered fraud-prevention tools to its suite of products for business clients as the credit-card giant uses the technology to improve security. Among the tools, available to clients starting in the first half of the year, will be one that expands on Visa’s current artificial-intelligence technology that helps detect and ..read more
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Financial institutions should expect to fail when exploring new technologies, Ami Iceman Hauter, chief research and digital experience officer at Michigan State University Federal Credit Union, said at the recent Bank Automation Summit U.S. 2024 in Nashville, Tenn. “We’re trying things, we’re not going to be afraid to fail,” she said, noting that the ..read more
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Payments behemoth Mastercard this year plans to launch a generative AI tool that will cater to businesses. Entrepreneurs looking to start a business or organize operations will be able to ask the gen AI tool questions and it will provide solutions, Jane Prokop, executive vice president for small and medium-sized enterprises at Mastercard, tells Bank ..read more
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KeyBank is establishing a generative AI center of excellence to navigate the new technology before it is regulated. “One of the things we’re hyper-focused on now is really establishing a COE,” Dominic Cugini, chief transformation officer at KeyBank, said March 19 at Bank Automation Summit U.S. 2024 in Nashville, Tenn. The $189 billion bank is ..read more
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Document processing is a routine task in the finance industry, but does it have to be manual? In an era where the banking sector is grappling with a growing volume of documents, the need for efficient, accurate, and swift document processing systems has never been more critical. This need is amplified by strict regulatory compliance ..read more
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PNC Financial Services’ junior and senior coders are split on how much they can rely on generative AI for code generation and writing. Junior coders use gen AI for code writing more than senior coders, Scott Kinross, senior vice president and software engineering director at PNC Financial Services, said at Bank Automation Summit U.S. 2024 ..read more