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Over the past year, the national bank regulators' oversight of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, Silvergate Capital and other banks that failed has been criticized. Reports of a toxic workplace at the FDIC have come to light. And the OCC hired a Deputy Comptroller and overseer of fintech who had easily discoverable falsehoods on his resume. Michele Alt, cofounder and managing director at Klaros Group, explains what this might mean for banks in the coming year.

A recent survey of over 12,000 banking leaders globally found that 70% of industry executives believe that embedded finance is either core or complementary to their institutions' business strategies. Yet, only 20% are already offering these types of solutions.

Penny Lee, president and CEO of the Financial Technology Association and Steve Boms, executive director of FDATA NA, explain what their members like about the proposed regulation and what they would change.

Learn how digitization can address trade finance challenges such as manual processes, siloed data, the need for resiliency, and meeting ESG goals.

Community banks sometimes feel that they lack the budget and staff to compete with larger banks and fintechs on things like mobile and online banking, virtual assistants and most recently generative AI. Jim Perry, senior strategist at Market Insights, suggests steps they can and should take to stay relevant technology wise.

The case is not really about cryptocurrency but about fraud, points out Seoyoung Kim, department chair and associate professor of finance and business analytics at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. But regulators and lawmakers are watching and the outcome of the trial will have repercussions throughout finance.

A string of big bank failures this spring has cast all manner of regulatory policies into question, but perhaps the most vexing — and most consequential — is the relationship between banks and their government supervisors. But changing an already changing supervisory culture is easier said than done.

In the world of financial services, computational capacity and the ability to achieve peak performance are linked. Having as much compute power as possible on a daily basis allows financial institutions to perform complex calculations to navigate a host of challenges, including competitive pressures, regulatory reporting, security demands and market swings.