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Member Exclusive, The Quarterly Review

The Quarterly Review: Tom Bianco delivers on Newline by Fifth Third’s roadmap with AI tools and dashboard upgrades

• Newline by Fifth Third’s Tom Bianco aimed to improve the firm’s products, client experience, and brand awareness in April.
• In this edition, his back in The Quarterly Review spotlight to report 3 AI-powered launches, 5 dashboard enhancements, and how his technical team came to the forefront in Money 20/20 to represent the firm’s value.

10-Q, Member Exclusive

Goldman Sachs moves into predictable growth with Innovator acquisition

• Goldman’s acquisition of Innovator boosts its scale in a fast-growing corner of public markets, nudging the firm away from the revenue swings.
• Goldman’s Asset Management is gradually evolving from a peripheral role in the firm’s trading and investment banking operations to a key growth engine.

Making better partnerships, Partner Content

Banks reclaim commercial lending through technology and strategic partnerships

• Banks are fighting back against private credit's $3.5 trillion expansion through aggressive technology investments and strategic partnerships with the very firms challenging their dominance.
• FIS's Héctor Pagés reveals how commercial lenders are deploying AI-powered platforms and cloud infrastructure to reclaim competitive advantage in a rapidly evolving market.

Awards, Banking

The power of one: How Citizens’ new open banking API framework came to life

• Open banking is often sold as a consumer perk, but its toughest test is in commercial banking, where stitching together ERPs, accounting software, and multiple bank relationships can be expensive and messy.
• With its open banking API redesign, Citizens addressed this challenge and took home Tearsheet’s 2025 Big Bank Theory Award for Best New Embedded Finance Platform.

Innovation, Partner Content

How community banks are balancing urgent pressures with long-term modernization

• Community and regional banks face competing demands: delivering immediate competitive parity in customer experience while building flexible infrastructure for an uncertain future.
• FIS's Peter Boyer and Celent's Craig Focardi discuss how institutions are navigating this tension through strategic technology investments, why fraud demands constant agility, and what modernization actually means in 2025.