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...

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...

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...

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...

In this episode, Tom Fitzgerald sits down with economist Joseph Keating to discuss the economic outlook amid ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, evolving Federal Reserve policy, and rapid investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure. The conversation provides an essential and timely look at the key economic forces shaping the remainder of 2026 and the path into 2027. Register...

Today we sit down with Scott Cocanougher, CEO of First Community Bank in Shelbyville, Tennessee and Randy Goggans, founder of the company BankerBounty. Together we discuss the keys to creating change inside your organization and how to create an effective referral program. Click Here to Book a Free Strategy Call. The views, information, or opinions...