‘Couch to 5k for savings’: Why Fifth Third acquired personal finance app Dobot

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.

4 charts, Innovation, Partner

How AI is changing payment fraud prevention: From evolving scams to predictive defenses

• Fraudsters are leveraging AI to refine their attacks, leaving organizations facing mounting financial hits.
• Firms are losing an average of $60 million annually to payment fraud, according to a Mastercard commissioned new research from Financial Times Longitude. But the same technologies behind the problem can also unlock the solution.

Innovation, Partner

Trust as the cornerstone: A quick guide to open banking and open finance adoption

• 92% of businesses report that open banking is essential for future-proofing their organization, according to research from Mastercard.
• As the financial services ecosystem, including banks, credit unions, and fintechs, build deeper expertise in serving customers digitally and more intuitively, open banking becomes an essential innovation driver.

Innovation, Partner

How to turn AI ambition into business results

• AI is everywhere — but it’s not a shortcut to success. As organizations race to embed it across operations, it’s clear that ambition alone won’t deliver impact.
• Organizations must establish a framework that harmonizes risk management and innovation through aligned objectives, measurements, and execution strategies.

Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, Lending, Modern Marketing

How Credit Unions are empowering their lending and marketing teams with Gen AI

• Today's micro case studies focus on two CUs: First, how Commonwealth Credit Union is using Gen AI to improve lending intelligence. And secondly, how Duke University Federal Credit Union is using the tech for enhanced marketing content creation.
• Both case studies show us how limited resources and budgets are driving small CUs towards Gen AI adoption.