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How CFOs Are Becoming Stewards of Customer Trust

Lilac Schoenbeck
CFOs don’t typically think of themselves as customer experience leaders. But some of a company’s most frequent and consequential customer interactions come from finance. Customers routinely receive invoices, payment reminders, and collections notices, yet few organizations scrutinize their tone, timing, and consistency as closely as they do sales or marketing......
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Why Regulated Industries Will Define the Next Phase of Enterprise AI Adoption

Dan Kutchel
For the past few years, enterprise AI has largely been defined by experimentation. Companies launched pilots, tested new tools and explored where AI could reduce manual work or improve customer and employee experiences. That period helped organizations understand what technology can do. The next phase will be more practical. Business......
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Why Agentic Commerce Calls For Smarter Friction, Not Less Of It

Ryan O’Kane
Modern payment innovation has largely focused on making the act of paying almost invisible. Features like Amazon’s “Buy Now” option and Uber’s automatic post-ride billing are now the norm, conditioning customers to payment experiences that disappear into the product itself. While leading e-commerce players have successfully embraced this approach, the......
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Five AI Governance Questions Every Bank Should Be Ready to Answer

Wendy Wilson
For the past several years, the conversation around artificial intelligence in banking has focused on adoption. How can financial institutions use AI to make faster lending decisions, detect fraud more effectively, improve customer service or automate routine tasks? Those questions remain important, but they are no longer the only ones......
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What Community Banks Need to Deploy Agentic AI Safely and Effectively

Peter Boyer
As one of the world’s most tightly regulated industries, banking operates under extensive oversight. Community banks are no exception. The pressure to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) is real and accelerating, with financial institutions, regulators, and clients all pushing for more technology that can streamline the digital banking experience, bolster cybersecurity......
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Finance is Investing in AI. Why Aren’t CFOs Seeing Results?

Alok Ajmera
Finance has an AI problem: investment is accelerating, but the payoff remains inconsistent. Recent Gartner research paints this picture clearly: AI initiatives are only succeeding about half of the time despite continued investment. With investment rising, and the use of AI infiltrating both our professional and personal lives, why is......
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Beyond the Chatbot: How Open Protocols Are Reshaping AI in Finance

Shawn Lane
Artificial intelligence has quickly become a priority for finance leaders across industries, driven by big promises of faster processes, better insights, and greater efficiency. According to a recent KPMG report, 75% of organizations now actively use AI in the finance function, up from just 30% in 2024. But in many......
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The Hidden Cost of Exceptions: How Agentic AI Transforms Lockbox Economics

Steve Markle
For decades, lockbox processing has played a foundational role in commercial banking and receivables operations. Banks built entire treasury relationships around lockbox services.  Businesses relied on lockbox operations to accelerate cash application, improve liquidity visibility, and streamline payment processing.  Lockbox services became deeply embedded in the daily flow of commercial payments. But......
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The Payments Challenge Facing Agentic Travel Commerce

Corey Murphy
The future of AI-ready travel commerce is not hard to imagine. A traveler describes the trip they want, a conversational agent refines and personalizes the options, and the booking experience adapts in real time, assembling the flight, hotel and rental car into one connected itinerary. Peer slightly farther into the......
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Payment Friction: The Invisible Tax on the Everyday Economy

Dominic Litten
For most small business owners, payment friction doesn’t stand out. It shows up as a customer who stops returning, a deposit that arrives two days after payroll was due, or a statement that takes an hour to understand what happened last month. Operators feel it long before they can measure......
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