January 2025
Bank Automation News
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Bank Automation News invites you to check out these top stories from the past month:
The Clearing House’ Real Time Payments network grew 94% year over year on a dollar basis in 2024 as it continued to benefit from the Federal Reserve’s marketing of FedNow.
TCH moved $246 billion on its network in 2024 and increased transaction volume by 38% YoY to 343 million transactions, according to a Jan. 8 release.?
FedNow’s 2023 entry into the market increased the visibility of instant payment capabilities, making banks rethink their instant payment service strategies, Jim Colassano, senior vice president of product development and strategy at TCH, told Bank Automation News.?
London-based financial services provider Finastra named Chris Walters as chief executive Jan. 6, effective immediately.
Finastra provides bank technology to many of the world’s largest banks, including Lloyds Bank, First Citizens Bank and Vystar Credit Union.
Walters, who succeeds Simon Paris, will work with Paris over the “next few weeks” to transition into the leadership role, a Finastra spokesperson told BAN.
C-suite executives at financial institutions are implementing AI and generative AI throughout their organizations, but as experimentation turns into application, here’s the question: Is the juice worth the squeeze?
Ninety-eight percent of industry leaders say integrating AI into their strategies will drive a 52% increase in revenue during the next five years.
This is one finding of a recent survey of 101 full-time financial services industry executives at the manager level or higher. The “Revenue Enablement in Financial Services: 2024 Global Findings & Insights” survey, conducted between July 23 and Aug. 9 by tech provider Seismic, also found:
Are the potential gains worth the investment in AI integration?
British retail bank Lloyds Bank’s strategy involves revving up its AI initiatives in 2025.
The $1.1 trillion bank revealed to BAN that its AI ambitions include:
As chief of AI and analytics at TD Bank, Luke Gee is working to identify processes that can be streamlined through AI.
The $1.9 billion bank is deploying AI initially for software development and customer assistance and plans to expand AI use to further improve operations, Gee told BAN.
Toronto-based TD has also urged employees to pitch ideas on ways AI can be used to make their jobs more efficient, Gee said, adding that the bank has implemented 10,000 of those ideas out of 100,000 submissions in the past five years.
In an interview with BAN, Gee shared his plans on how AI can be developed and used within the bank to create value.
Bank Automation News will present the webinar “The best practices in cloud migration for financial services” on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at 11 a.m. EST.
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