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As challenges grow, bankers still rely on a longtime standby. Their ease with spreadsheets suggests that this represents a good front end for more advanced analytical packages, according to a report by Kaufman Hall.

Fire, the wheel, spreadsheets, and the future

Study finds growing sophistication in measurement and control—and more need. But some basics keep on rolling
Selling's not abusive when done right. But what's "done right"? A selection of bankers and experts discuss this challenging question. When you've finished reading what they have to say, why not add your own views to the comment section at the story's conclusion?

Bank sales under scrutiny

“Sell” went from no-no to go-go to uh-oh. What’s right perspective on banks in the selling role?
Reporter's Notebook is where Banking Exchange staff rise above the ordinary fray to get a perspective on what's going on. In this edition we discuss the future of banking in a blockchain age with Chain's Clint Gilliam.

Blockchain future for banks

Visa B2B Connect illustrates how banking and blockchain can work together
"Blockchain is a new set of rails," says William Mougayar, author of The Business Blockchain. "And it is going to be a more efficient set of rails than the multitude of proprietary solutions and spaghetti kind of integrations that we have today. We now have a chance to rethink all of this."

Blockchain will revise banking reality

Talking with author and investor William Mougayar. He says fledgling technology could reboot financial services
Anyone who has had disappointing results with a general-purpose AI application like Siri can see the appeal of a product that doesn't try to cover the waterfront.

Should financial AI be “narrow and deep”?

Kasisto’s Zor Gorelov sees artificial intelligence’s ability as evolutionary
Anatomy Of A Banking Scandal: The Keystone Bank Failure—Harbinger Of The 2008 Financial Crisis. By Robert S. Pasley. Transaction Publishers. 336 pp.

What happened at “the bank with the backhoe”

Book Review: Things went much deeper than the hole hiding the evidence
Tom Vartanian has spent decades in Washington in banking legal circles. He suggests that understanding where banking law and regulation could go begins by understanding where it stands and how it got there.

D.C. veteran assesses chances for bank law reform

Dechert’s Tom Vartanian urges cautious optimism—and doses of reality
"While ‘run fast and break things’ may be a popular mantra in the technology space, it is ill-suited to an arena that depends on trust and confidence,” Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard said in a recent speech.

Raising fintech risk issues

Fed governor sketches traditional and nontraditional exposures posed by fintech relationships
Strategic sales of CRE picking up

Strategic sales of CRE picking up

Whole-loan selling no longer just for distressed credits
Lawyering between two worlds

Lawyering between two worlds

Helping fintech and banking to understand other side of the desk
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