Nashville, Tenn. — Arc Technologies charted a 12X increase in loan originations year over year in 2023, as it gained customers and deposits when businesses looked to pivot to new banking partners after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. One year after the banking crisis, digital bank Arc is on track for “billions in deposits…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Wells Fargo has created a generative AI council within the organization to study implementation, development and deployment of gen AI. Steve Hagerman, chief information officer of consumer technology at Wells Fargo, said today during Bank Automation Summit 2024 that the bank’s gen AI council consists of five bank leaders: People officer;  …

Miami-based Onyx Private, a Y Combinator-backed digital bank that provided banking and investment services for high-earning Millennials and Gen Zers, is terminating its bank operations. In a March 13 email to a customer viewed by TechCrunch, with a subject line that read: “Important Notice: Termination of Bank Operations and Account Closure” Onyx wrote, “We are…

In the dynamic world of financial services, the need for rapid and precise credit decisions has never been more crucial. This demand is driving a transformative shift towards leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation to redefine credit and risk assessment strategies. These technologies promise a future where financial institutions can navigate the complexities of credit…

Fintech valuations and funding rounds had a tough year in 2023 as high interest rates pushed investors into capital conservation mode.  In 2023, “VCs were just trying to protect their own portfolios and be cautious with their investments,” Robin Scher, head of fintech investment at Lloyds Bank, said at FinovateEurope last month. “Fintechs that raised…

NASHVILLE — Bank Automation Summit U.S. 2024 kicks off today with panelists from BankUnited, Fifth Third Bank and Wells Fargo taking the stage to discuss today’s AI revolution in banking at the Omni Nashville in Nashville, Tenn.  The two-day event is packed with panel discussions, presentations and networking opportunities, and will be highlighted by a…

AI has landed for the consumer. It’s no longer a topic for data scientists and IT alone. But what is Generative AI? Equally as mystifying is Process Intelligence – a complex subject, frequently hidden behind the process expert wisdom. So, how can department and functional leaders, from risk to operations to IT, leverage AI and…

A long time ago, before most of you were born, I worked with Dr. An Wang, a visionary. Wang created Wang computers, a company that blossomed quickly into a global firm thanks to word processing. Word processing? Yes, word processing. What it allowed was the replacement of typewriters with computers, and companies loved it because……

Things we’re reading today include … Millions more in cash needed to fund UK’s open-banking watchdog | Banking | The Guardian Over a third of first time buyers relying on ‘bank of mum and dad’ | Housing | The Guardian Bitcoin Bulls vs. Bubble Bears: A Cryptocurrency Clash (cryptotimes.io) The evolving relationship between supermarkets and……

This week’s main blog discussions include … How the Wirecard story unravelled: an interview with Dan McCrum who broke the truth I’ve been following Dan McCrum, the investigative journalist with The Financial Times, for quite a while. He’s the guy who broke the Wirecard story, even though it could have meant quite a lot of……