Awards,
Banking
- 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.
Sara Khairi | December 11, 2025
Innovation,
Partner Content
- 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.
Zachary Miller | December 10, 2025
Awards,
Embedded Finance,
Payments
- Gusto’s Payroll Bridge won the Best Embedded Finance Product for SMBs at the 2025 Tearsheet SMB Finance Awards.
- Dan Loomis, General Manager and Head of Product at Gusto Money, shares how Payroll Bridge took shape to better support SMBs’ day-to-day operations.
Sara Khairi | December 09, 2025
10-Q,
Member Exclusive
- Not your typical regional bank, Webster combines serving local consumers and SMBs with a strategic move into healthcare finance.
- In today’s 10Q edition: What’s Left in the Shadows, we shine a light on the less-talked-about publicly traded names in the industry that do their own thing but remain integral to the banking ecosystem.
Sara Khairi | December 08, 2025
Designing new products,
Member Exclusive,
The Customer Effect
- The old financial services formula of early capture, single-product selling, and assumed lifetime loyalty is beginning to crack.
- This shift is giving rise to a new form of financial trust among Gen Z, combining digital ease with real-world guidance.
Sara Khairi | December 04, 2025
