Anne Rawland Gabriel

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Aug 18, 2017

Our torrid affair with Groupon has always been a love-hate thing: The more consumers embraced it, the more businesses discovered it was just another form of pay-to-play. That, and outflanking by copycat discount sites, explains in […]
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Apr 13, 2017

After years of struggling to woo another, employees at Gateway Financial Holdings of Florida loved PAM at first sight. Or, as group vice president for information technology, Jim O’Brien puts it, “People were over the moon.” Not that PAM...
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Mar 21, 2017

How many hackers does it take to invade an LED light bulb? It doesn’t matter, because once inside they can defraud you of millions. That’s the reality banks face as they embrace the operational advantages offered […]
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Feb 27, 2017

Not long ago, mobile phones served a simple purpose: to talk to other people. Now we routinely talk to Siri, Cortana and other digital assistants. More significantly, they talk back to us (and not, mind you, […]
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Oct 11, 2016

Know your customer. Its acronym is KYC, but you couldn’t blame someone for confusing it with KFC because for banks, it’s a tough muddle with all the likeability of spent chicken grease. As for anti-money laundering […]
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Sep 7, 2016

With anytime/anywhere/any device access moving deeper into the banking stack, commercial escrow is also beginning to transform. At least a dozen banks, ranging in size from middle-market institutions to Tier 1 powerhouses, currently promote some type […]
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Apr 18, 2016

Although most U.S. banks offer some type of mobile channel, significant disconnects remain. For example, only about a quarter leverage mobile for account opening, or plan to begin doing so. One considerable mobile onboarding hurdle is […]
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Apr 15, 2015

With paper-based checks falling to about half of all B2B payments according to recent surveys, banks are feeling the revenue loss. Yet, at the same time, their commercial clients continue experiencing significant costs due to manual […]