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Resources to Accelerate Your Bank's Innovation

Our top articles, podcasts, and resources to keep your bank ahead of the curve.

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AI-Noise And How To Prevent Bank Vendors From Driving Your Strategy

The banking market is flooded with core providers and platform vendors promising transformative results. Bank executives are awash in vendor pitches from a variety of sources, particularly now around AI-driven solutions. The challenge is that many banks rely on their major core or digital bank vendors for their products and take on the strategy of...
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Using AI to Become a Better Banker

Many bankers use gen AI as a search engine. Others use it to help them write or come up with ideas. Still others are more sophisticated and have started to incorporate multiple AI models into the enterprise to leverage AI across the bank. All this helps, but one execution that we found the most helpful...
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Here is Our Bank Innovation Playbook and Assessment

Many banks either fail to innovate or innovate to their detriment. Artificial intelligence and tokenization are two current examples where either banks are ignoring or in an attempt to innovate have destroyed the value of the product by copying old processes, putting enough guardrails on to limit its use or being so slow to roll...
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8 Insights You Need to Know About Tokenized Deposits

It was a sunny June day back in 1974 when Herstatt Bank, a German community bank out of Cologne, had thousands of U.S. Dollar payments that it wanted to send out to New York banks before it shut down at 4:30 in the afternoon. Because no NY bank was open, those payments could not be...
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The Basics of Stablecoin, Tokenized Deposits, and What it Means for Your Bank

In this episode of The Community Bank Podcast, SouthState’s Tara Edmonds joins Caleb Stevens to unpack one of banking’s hottest topics: stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and the future of money movement. Tara explains what community bankers need to know, why regulatory clarity is accelerating adoption, and how emerging payment technologies could reshape deposits, customer relationships, and the...
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The Playbook for Enterprise AI Adoption with Walt Wear

In this episode, Chris Nichols sits down with Walt Wear, SouthState’s AI Enablement Manager, to discuss the bank’s Copilot adoption journey, lessons learned from scaling AI across the organization, and what’s next as the industry moves toward agentic AI. Walt shares how a community-first approach, weekly office hours, AI Central, and a crowdsourced prompt library...
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The Innovation Trap (and the Way Out)

Let’s take a clear-eyed look at the innovation challenges banks face today along with the four foundational pillars that put them on the right path, even as AI reshapes everything around them.

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The Innovation Trap (and the Way Out)

Let’s take a clear-eyed look at the innovation challenges banks face today along with the four foundational pillars that put them on the right path, even as AI reshapes everything around them.

Get Our Innovation Playbook