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Member Exclusive, Opinion

The financial services industry is getting better at selling to itself. Its customers still have problems, though.

• Financial services is getting better at building and selling technology to itself, but that doesn’t necessarily mean customers are getting better experiences.
• Innovation through partnerships and new products should help customers get things done faster, easier, or more effectively.

Announcement, Awards

Tearsheet launches the Vision Awards to honor financial services leaders

• This year’s winners include executives from Revenued, Happen Bank, Worth, Lumin Digital, Fruitful, and Best Egg.
• Their contributions span SMB access to capital, bank transformation, consumer finance, digital banking, and responsible growth.

5 questions, Member Exclusive, Payments

How Gen Z’s expectations are pushing treasury toward real-time finance feat. Citizens

• Gen Z is raising the bar for treasury, expecting payment visibility, transparency, and control to keep pace with real-time money movement.
• Citizens is modernizing banking connectivity, but instant payments also demand earlier fraud checks and better information-sharing across banks, fintechs, and payment providers.

Blockchain and Crypto, Partner, Podcasts

At Stellar’s Meridian conference, Anthony Scaramucci tells banks to “kill the iPod in your business”

• Anthony Scaramucci wants the 10 largest U.S. stocks on chain first, because equities will draw the attention that pulls the rest of the market along.
• The SkyBridge founder expects SEC guidance to matter more than legislation and urges bank product leaders to retire their own best-selling products.

5 questions, Awards, Banking

How Pathward helps partners grow with confidence

• Pathward was named Partner Bank of the Year at the Tearsheet Big Bank Theory Awards 2026.
• Will Sowell, Chief Customer Officer at Pathward, discusses what fintechs need from a bank partner today, balancing innovation with risk and compliance, and how Pathward is adapting to market changes.