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ABA Partner Network Podcast
by American Bankers Association
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How Financial Institutions Can Scale Governance for New Regulatory Realities
Financial institutions are facing a rapidly expanding compliance landscape. According to RegScale's 2026 State of Continuous Controls Monitoring Report, these organizations are more likely than any other industry to spend more than half of their compliance workload addressing regulatory...
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From Transformation to Value: What's Delivering Results in Banking Today
How financial institutions are modernizing core banking and payments platforms to improve agility, reduce risk, and accelerate business outcomes. Speakers Joel Rosenberger – Head of Sales, Americas, TCS BaNCS Craig Driver VP, Partner Network, ABA
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AI in Community Banking: Are We Doing This Right and Is It Safe?
At Navanta, we are not waiting for AI to become relevant to community banking. We have a dedicated team developing practical applications for our own operations and for the community banks and credit unions we serve. Inside one of our Managed IT solutions, Bankers Private Cloud, AI is already...
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Transforming Cross-Border Payments
How Visa Direct Helps Banks Win in the New Era of Money Movement Visa Direct for Cross-Border Payments: Visa Direct enables banks, fintechs, businesses, and governments to send, receive, hold, convert, and manage funds globally through a single connection. The platform supports payments to cards,...
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Digital Banking's Growth Promise: What the Data Now Tells Us
Seventy percent of transaction volume now runs through digital channels. So why don't many financial institutions measure the ROI of the channel? Lumin Digital Chief Growth Officer Kelley Michalik joins us with research from S&P Global Market Intelligence's 451 Research to examine the gap between...
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The Future of Banking is Intelligent and Integrated
Intelligent Banking Operations — leveraging AI, automation, data and domain expertise to transform banking operations, improve productivity and deliver measurable business outcomes. Speakers Ashish Deshmukh Head of Sales | BFSI | Intelligent Business Operations Tim Pannell VP, Partner Network, ABA
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How AI Agents Surface Growth Opportunities and Better Serve Customers
Creatio is an AI-native CRM and workflow automation platform where people and AI agents work together, with no limits on users, agents, workflows, or scale. AI agents work on two fronts at once: surfacing and acting on growth opportunities across sales and relationship management and absorbing…
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Shaping the Future of Instant Payments: A Q&A with Erik VanBramer
Erik VanBramer, Senior Vice President, Head of Customer & Industry Relations, Federal Reserve Financial Services Craig Driver VP, Partner Network, ABA
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AI That Works for Banking
Abrigo AI and how financial institutions can leverage AI assistants and agentic capabilities to automate manual work, improve decision-making, and implement AI responsibly, regardless of where they are in their AI journey. Speakers Rob Newberry, Senior Consultant, Abrigo Theresa Wendhausen, VP,...
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Next Gen Enterprise Case Management
AI is making fraud faster, more convincing and harder to detect. Financial institutions are dealing with more sophisticated scams, fake identities, weaker authentication, and transactions that look completely legitimate. AI-driven fraud has quickly become one of the biggest security concerns for...
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Why Cyber Resilience Is Reshaping Banking Compliance
Cyber resilience is becoming a strategic priority for financial institutions as today's threat landscape grows more sophisticated, with disruptions carrying greater operational consequences. Yet many banks still rely on cyber GRC processes that are manual, reactive, and difficult to scale....
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How Banks Move Onchain in 90 Days
Three quarters of American banks now have digital asset initiatives underway, but only 22% have programs live or scaling. Uphold's new research, developed in partnership with American Banker, shows where the gap sits: cybersecurity, risk management, and regulatory uncertainty. This conversation...
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Non-Interest Income Strategies That Actually Work in 2026 and into 2027
As financial institutions look beyond lending for growth, which non-interest income strategies are actually delivering results? In this episode, we explore the revenue opportunities gaining traction in 2026 and into 2027, why consumer engagement is key to long-term success, and practical ways to...
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Governing AI in Banking: Where to Start and What Matters Most
AI is already showing up across financial institutions through vendor platforms, employee experimentation, and embedded tools. As adoption grows, regulators expect banks to demonstrate clear governance, defined accountability, and effective oversight. This discussion explores a practical AI...
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Is Your Bank Really Digital
For many banks, their strategic priorities include enhancing their digital capabilities to improve the client experience and investing in advanced technologies like AI to improve automation and operational efficiencies. If there is one process within banks that has changed the least while...
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Extracting Data from Banking Documents
Financial institutions process thousands of document types every day, yet much of the critical data remains locked inside PDFs, scans, and forms. Learn how modern AI-powered document intelligence is helping banks automate data extraction, reduce manual review, accelerate decisions, and improve...
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Winning Consumer Confidence & Trust in the Age of AI
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how banks operate and how consumers think, learn, and decide about their financial lives. Yet while institutions pour resources into AI-driven efficiency and personalization, the consumer mindset isn't evolving at the same pace. This disconnect is now...
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Audit fraud: what's at stake?
Audit fraud can expose financial institutions to significant financial, operational, and reputational risk. In this episode, we explore what audit fraud is, examine a real-world example, and discuss how the streamlined Confirmation platform helps you strengthen your fraud prevention processes and...
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FinAi: Financial AI Roadmap
AI is rapidly reshaping financial services — but where is it creating measurable impact today? In this conversation, FinAi News shares what banking, lending, payments and risk leaders are prioritizing; the AI use cases gaining traction, and how executive communities are helping financial...
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From Low Adoption to Meaningful Revenue: How Banks Actually Scale Insurance Programs
Insurance programs often launch with high expectations—but many struggle to gain traction, generate engagement, or deliver meaningful revenue. So what separates the programs that stall from those that become valuable growth drivers? In this episode, we explore how leading banks are scaling...
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Safe at Speed: Deploying AI That Regulators and Bankers Trust
Community banks are moving fast on AI but fast doesn't always mean ready. In this conversation, Arjun Sirrah, founder and CEO of Titan Banking AI, breaks down what AI readiness actually looks like in practice, why the choice between general-purpose AI tools and banking-native platforms carries…
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Agentic AI Transforming the Fight Against Financial Crime
Rob Norris, the head of product strategy at Nasdaq Verafin, joins ABA to talk about how Nasdaq Verafin is helping banks out-innovate criminals with the company's new Agentic AI Workforce. He discusses the vision for Nasdaq Verafin's Agentic AI Workforce, the early results they've seen from 650+...
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Risk Lives in the Gaps
A builder declared zero liabilities on his questionnaire — hiding 20+ tax judgments and liens. A contract and a budget told contradictory stories about who was paying for $67,000 in utility work — neither document revealed the problem on its own. Construction loan risk doesn't live in any one...
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Improving Customer Engagement in a Fraud-Filled World
Fraudsters are no longer just stealing money — they're impersonating brands and inserting themselves into legitimate customer interactions. As digital engagement increases, so does perceived risk: Everyday touchpoints — calls, texts, notifications — are now treated as potential threats. Speakers:...
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The Core Conversation: What Every Bank Should Know Before Renewal
Most banks do not realize the clock on their next core decision starts years before renewal. In this episode, ICI Consulting's EVP of Sales, Kevin Mehl, explores how financial institutions can prepare earlier, evaluate the right vendors, and create leverage before entering one of the most…
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Stablecoins Move to the Banking Core: What Bank Leaders Need to Know Now
This podcast will explore how stablecoins are moving from the crypto periphery into the core of regulated banking and institutional finance. Moderated by Tim Pannell, Kevin Bannerton, R&T's Chief Business Development Officer, will discuss what stablecoins are (and are not), the regulatory and...
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Balance Sheet Strategy Outlook
Margin momentum has carried financial institutions through the past year—but what happens when that momentum slows? As 2026 commences, bankers face a tightening liquidity environment and the growing challenge of finding the right balance between cost savings and deposit growth. Speakers: Joe...
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Cross-Border 2026: The Regional Bank Roadmap
Regional banks are entering a pivotal stage in modernizing cross border payments as ISO 20022 shifts from implementation to optimization. With richer data, growing expectations for real time transparency, and rapid advancements in blockchain and AI, banks must determine how to enhance efficiency...
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Ask Kaia & the State of Regulatory Compliance
Using anonymized data from thousands of compliance questions asked by bankers over the past 90 days, 360factors CEO Carl McCauley reveals the top regulatory topics keeping banks busy, where confusion persists, and what it tells us about the state of compliance in 2026. A data-driven look at…
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The People Problem: The Hardest Part of Data Transformation
Banks have invested heavily in data and technology, yet many still struggle to turn insights into action. In this episode, we explore why the biggest obstacle to data transformation isn't the platform — it's the people. From siloed teams and low data literacy to insights that arrive too late to...
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Making Vertical LLMs More Accurate, Auditable, and Defensible
As financial institutions pursue the promise of generative AI to streamline compliance, enhance reporting, and improve operational efficiency, one challenge consistently emerges: trust. A curated content strategy changes the equation. By limiting an LLM's training and retrieval functions to a...
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Change Without Chaos: Why Banks Should Rethink "Safe" Tech
SignWell Chief Business Officer Bader Hamdan unpacks a quiet truth in banking tech: sometimes the tools that feel "safe" are actually holding your institution back. From inflated renewal costs with legacy vendors to complex workflows that frustrate teams, Sam shares how the idea of software…
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2025 Debit Issuer Study: 20 Years of Growth, Transformation, and Opportunity
The 2025 PULSE Debit Issuer Study is the 20th edition of the annual report on debit use and issuer performance. Over the last two decades, the debit market has expanded as issuers adapted and evolved to meet consumer demands and regulatory requirements. Speakers: Steve Sievert, Vice President…
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Cash in: Simplify deposits with Allpoint
Discover how Allpoint's cash deposit-enabled ATMs are transforming the way financial institutions serve their customers. In this episode, we explore the benefits of enabling deposit functionality—from expanding access and reducing branch dependency to enhancing customer convenience and…
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Intelligent Origination: Reinventing Lending with AI
Blend's Intelligent Origination — an AI-powered orchestration layer embedded in Blend's platform that reduces the cost of loan origination, improves speed and accuracy, and redefines how lenders and borrowers experience the lending process.
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Voices of Trust, Not Fraud
Contact centers sit at the crossroads of trust and risk—where fraudsters often strike first. In this episode, we explore how banks can strengthen defenses with advanced detection signals, real-time risk scoring, and seamless authentication. Learn how you can safeguard customer trust while...
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Why Compliance Isn't Optional: Inside SignWell's 4th SOC 2 Type II Audit
SignWell's CEO joins us to discuss why the company continues to invest in enterprise-grade security—even as a more affordable e-signature alternative. We unpack what SOC 2 Type II really means, why most providers skip it, and why compliance shouldn't be reserved for big enterprise customers....
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Managing SBA Loan Portfolios
SBA lending doesn't stop at closing. This podcast previews key considerations for servicing, monitoring, and maintaining SBA portfolios—with a look at what's ahead in our ABA webinar on SBA loan servicing. Speakers: Chris McClinton, President, Lenders Cooperative Tim Pannell, VP , ABA
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Guaranteed Model of Check Risk
A risk free approach to tackling check fraud which is customizable to your organization.
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Texting Compliance 101 for Banks
David Baxter, CEO of Solutions by Text, highlights how compliant texting improves payment timeliness, streamlines loan processes, and builds loyalty with Gen Z and millennial customers. Speakers: David Baxter, CEO of Solutions by Text Khalil Garriott, VP, ABA
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Why SBA Should Be Strategic
Community banks can't afford to overlook SBA lending. In this podcast, we preview how institutions can strategically adopt SBA as a growth channel, and what to expect from our upcoming ABA webinar. Lenders Cooperative's SBA Lender Service Provider (LSP) solution—which helps financial institutions...
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Extending your bank's commercial cash deposit reach without the capital expense of a branch
Community and regional banks can extend their commercial servicing reach by leveraging Clip's network of 7,600 commercial cash deposit locations. Commercial customers benefit from unmatched convenience and reduced costs through our innovative, digital-first experience. Speakers: Brian Bailey,...
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Local Eyes on the Brand: How Banks Win Trust in New Markets with Rivel
Rivel Banking Research is here to share the latest insights from their nationwide consumer feedback about branding, perception, and, importantly, how your bank can stand out from the crowd when moving into new markets. Learn why it's important to track your brand effectively and tailor it to new...
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Use AI in Compliance NOW
AI has already helped compliance teams automate the drudgery, elevate junior team members' capabilities and impact, reduce friction with marketing and revenue generating operational business units, instantly assess impact of regulatory change at a very granular level, better communicate up and…
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Built for Banks, by a Bank: LendingClub's Marketplace Model Advantage
How LendingClub Connects Banks to Consumer Credit and Understand LendingClub's unique role in the market and why consumer credit belongs in modern bank portfolios. LendingClub is the leading digital marketplace bank in the U.S., connecting borrowers with investors since 2007. Speakers: Ari...
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Disrupting Payments: How LocalPay Allows Banks to Increase Deposits and Revenue with a Pay-By-Bank Offering
In this episode, the American Bankers Association talks with the team behind LocalPay, a patented Pay-by-Bank platform enabling consumers to pay merchants directly from their bank accounts—without cards or intermediaries. Learn how LocalPay is partnering with core banking providers like Jack…
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Instant Payments Drive Value Beyond Money Movement
With more ways to move money than ever before, financial institutions are scrambling to implement the necessary infrastructure to allow their customers to make payments as quickly as possible, through various payment rails. To recap their investments on these projects, though, organizations…
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How Banks Can Prepare for Crypto
The financial industry is evolving rapidly, and digital assets are a critical piece of the puzzle. From stablecoins to tokenized real-world assets like stocks and bonds, financial institutions must adapt now to stay competitive. This podcast explores the key trends, regulatory developments, and...
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Zeta Hits $2B: Next-Gen Card Tech Rise
Discover how Zeta, a next-gen banking technology provider, achieved a $2B valuation by supporting over 25 million accounts worldwide. Its omni-stack platform is helping issuers move away from siloed legacy technology to launch any banking asset or liability product on a single, unified solution....
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Segmenting Your Business Customers in 2025
As institutions strive to grow deposits and commercial lending, identifying the right customer industries and markets for these products is more critical than ever. For example, businesses with excess inventory have different financial needs than those with surplus cash, and each requires…
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