Financial disharmony costs organizations $100 million annually as money struggles to flow seamlessly through trading, banking, and payment systems, with cyberthreats driving a third of losses.
FIS CTO Firdaus Bhathena and Oxford Economics' Margaux McLoughlin discuss strategic solutions including AI integration, enhanced training, and industry partnerships to address the growing harmony gap in financial services.
Always strapped for cash and with their owners juggling multiple responsibilities at once, small businesses increasingly adopt vertical SaaS platforms to run their operations, the demand for integrated banking, payments, and lending solutions continues to accelerate.
Tune in to hear us plot the market shift from embedded payments to lending, underwriting challenges for thin-file customers, and strategic partnership models that create comprehensive solutions for small businesses along with two case studies from Relay and Tilled.
SMB customers need more than just the traditional checking account from their banks, firms that want to capture and retain SMB customers need to go further and build products that help make running an SMB easier.
On the show today, Mark Valentino, President of Business Banking at Citizens, and Taira Hall, EVP and Head of Enterprise Payments at Citizens, join to talk about how the bank aiming to become a command center for SMB owners.
Banks struggle with AI adoption due to outdated data systems and cultural resistance; Temenos' Barb Morgan addresses these foundational challenges.
Morgan talks about how Temenos is helping the industry in evolving towards gradual AI deployment, market-centric innovation, and customer-driven product development approaches.
Traditional banks are losing market share to non-bank FIs who are proving to be more agile in their SME lending approaches.
Finastra’s Principal Product Manager Kristen Lista joins the Tearsheet podcast today to discuss how consolidating technology and decreasing the time between application and access to funding can fuel traditional bank's SME lending approaches.
